No doubt I'm in a small minority, and people will hate me for expressing my opinion, as usually happens, but I just wanted to say that I really do not like The X Factor's new shift in tone towards "unwholesomeness".
I suppose this change was inevitable, since "unwholesome" is the way everything is going lately, and I have all but given up watching modern TV shows because they have become so objectionable. If I want to see something clean and good-natured, I more or less have to stick to the children's channels.
The X Factor (and Xtra Factor) has always been a family show, but last week things moved distinctly outside that boundary, featuring a horrible night time scene of partying and drunkenness. I found it quite grotesque and totally inappropriate for children. What it had to do with a singing competition I am not sure.
If people want to indulge in vice and drunkenness in their private lives that's up to them, but it seems way out of line for the producers to actually supply the contestants with alcohol and encourage them to party - a group which includes 16-year-olds. If I'd have been a contestant I would have walked away at that point.
Perhaps most X Factor viewers appreciate that kind of sordid, drunken, loutish mentality? But surely not everyone does.
And then there was the "wall" segment, which reduced what was a singing competition into a kind of physical "fight". It all came across as an attempt to "spice up" the show by encouraging fighting, rowdiness, carnage and chaos. Highly questionable.
But for me, most disturbing of all is the new-look Xtra Factor. What once was a civilised family show with a good sense of humour, now seems to be a "live drunken party", with people whooping and cheering uncontrollably, and an atmosphere of mischievousness and recklessness. How sad.
As for the two new hosts, in my opinion they are two very odd-looking, questionable characters who seem to me more like rejected contestants than TV presenters. They don't have any hint of respectability about them, which TV presenters surely should. How I miss the Caroline Flack days. Though at least Ant & Dec are still going strong. They are a class act.
Anyway, I just wanted to express my views. Given the way things are going, I suspect that in a couple of years, this year's X Factor will look positively tame. Perhaps in the future all X Factor contestants will be required to be drunk, naked, and beating each other up in order to win? That seems to be what people want today: dirtiness and impurity. I suppose Mr Cowell and company probably shouldn't worry about viewers like me because there won't be many of us left soon.
I suppose this change was inevitable, since "unwholesome" is the way everything is going lately, and I have all but given up watching modern TV shows because they have become so objectionable. If I want to see something clean and good-natured, I more or less have to stick to the children's channels.
The X Factor (and Xtra Factor) has always been a family show, but last week things moved distinctly outside that boundary, featuring a horrible night time scene of partying and drunkenness. I found it quite grotesque and totally inappropriate for children. What it had to do with a singing competition I am not sure.
If people want to indulge in vice and drunkenness in their private lives that's up to them, but it seems way out of line for the producers to actually supply the contestants with alcohol and encourage them to party - a group which includes 16-year-olds. If I'd have been a contestant I would have walked away at that point.
Perhaps most X Factor viewers appreciate that kind of sordid, drunken, loutish mentality? But surely not everyone does.
And then there was the "wall" segment, which reduced what was a singing competition into a kind of physical "fight". It all came across as an attempt to "spice up" the show by encouraging fighting, rowdiness, carnage and chaos. Highly questionable.
But for me, most disturbing of all is the new-look Xtra Factor. What once was a civilised family show with a good sense of humour, now seems to be a "live drunken party", with people whooping and cheering uncontrollably, and an atmosphere of mischievousness and recklessness. How sad.
As for the two new hosts, in my opinion they are two very odd-looking, questionable characters who seem to me more like rejected contestants than TV presenters. They don't have any hint of respectability about them, which TV presenters surely should. How I miss the Caroline Flack days. Though at least Ant & Dec are still going strong. They are a class act.
Anyway, I just wanted to express my views. Given the way things are going, I suspect that in a couple of years, this year's X Factor will look positively tame. Perhaps in the future all X Factor contestants will be required to be drunk, naked, and beating each other up in order to win? That seems to be what people want today: dirtiness and impurity. I suppose Mr Cowell and company probably shouldn't worry about viewers like me because there won't be many of us left soon.
