With the first audition shows airing this weekend, are there any confirmed, or rumoured, plans for when the bootcamp, 6 chair challenge, Judges Houses and Live Shows will air?

And is Judges Houses going to be live this year?

Is the 6 chair challenge still sticking around?

Yes, Dermot mentioned it at the start of the show.

On The Xtra Factor last night Matt Edmonson said that that we're going to be live for 16 weeks so taking into account there are 10 weeks of lives so im guessing this is the schedule:

27/08-11/09 - Auditions
17-18/09 - Boot camp
24-25/09 - 6 chair challenge
1-2/10 - Judges houses
08/10-11/12 - Live shows

Although didn't we only get about 6/7 live shows last year?

Yeah we only got 7 last year because of the rugby World Cup.

Ah right, hopefully we're back to more lives this year then.

Yeah there will be 10 live shows this year it was announced earlier this year

id go with that

Yes. It was filmed in July (earlier than normal - September - this year because of Sharon and Simon's commitments here in America).