Don't know what everybody else's opinion is but I'd much rather watch Britain's Got Talent than X Factor. The viewing figures last year for BGT were great so why don't ITV devote more time to the series. They show the auditions for around 7 weeks then all the live shows in one week with hardly any time to vote. Surely they could give the series more time.

The X Factor is on for 4 months! BGT is on for less than 2.

I think The X Factor is stale now. It would be a refreshing change if they replaced it with Britain's Got Talent

Probably down to Simon Cowells busy schedual, although they have increased the time period this year.

The repetitive nature of many of the acts limits them slightly as they can't do the same finals format as XF. This year they will run 13 shows, compared to 18 weeks for X Factor.

As for running it in a week, Syco have AGT to produce in the summer and Piers Morgan judges on it as well. Plus, ITV wouldn't want BGT running through the summer when ratings are lower. Also, they wouldn't want BGT finishing a few weeks before Cowell turns up again on XF.

There's more money-making potential with X-Factor. There's no chance that a dancing dog will get to number 1 in the pop charts.

I think its quite obvious why.


Lets take X-Factor or SCD. In both of these shows, contestants are learning and performing existing material (existing songs and dances respectively).


Same with the Lloyd Webber shows, they are performing "acts" from existing musical theatre.


So in these shows every contestant is taking something that already exists, learning it and performing it to the best of their ability, with 1 week to learn their performance and perfect it.


With this scenario; a lot of contestants struggle; just to learn and perfect something that already exists.


Now put a dance troupe who are performing and original act in that scenario - they have to design, coreograph, perfect and perform 8 different dance routines; with only 1 week to do each. Plus they have to find suitable music for each routine - which is an art in itself.


They would be royaly screwed as it would be impossible to come up with something even half decent in that time and by the time they had done 3 shows they would be creatively exhausted.


Now I am not saying that singing or doing SCD is easy; what I am saying is that placing a dance troupe in an X-Factor / SCD style format would be the equivelant of X-Factor expecting the contestants to write and score their performance on top of learning and perfecting it.


Also; I believe I am correct in my belief that dance troupes tend to have a "product" that evolves over lots of different acts - so there may not be that much scope with past material.



It's not just dance troupes that have this problem either; they are just easier to explain. Groups like Scala would have the same issue as they are "new classical" they would have to do a lot of sound design or rip off Bond throughout the whole competition - which would rid them of all credibility.


Erm... sorry for the bad spelling it's getting kinda late lol
Last edited by Fizix : 27-05-2008 at 00:37

The X Factor is a much better show IMO. I love BGT by X Factor is trying to find the next big singing sensation rather than an act to perform one night infront of the Queen. Louis, Sharon and Simon's banter is also much better than the BGT's judges.

A general talent show will become repetitive very quickly.

Magicians and comedians have only so much material. I'm already bored of the dog.
It's kinda cruel to let an old man make a fool of himself on the piano - but you can only really do that once

That's why singers nearly always win talent shows, its all about catching the voters emotions

Simon needs to add to his £112 million, and Sharon to her £110 million. X-Factor brings in the money and good luck to them, while ever the public vote in their droves, their tills keep on ringing. (Can't find out how much Louis Walsh is worth, but I will be £5 poorer than he is, that's for sure).