Over X-ing The Cake

I've noticed that I haven't done much blogging about the
just finished series of The X Factor this year.

Though that's probably because I manage to get everything
off my chest about it on Twitter as the show goes out.

But this article from the Guardian speaks volumes,
and more or less sums up why the show is currently
losing appeal in an austerity Britain.

The article calls it a crisis meeting, but if looked at more
openly, there isn't really a crisis.

Just an observation that the viewing public are fed up
with being told who to like and create a bandwagon for.

And as the article suggests, it has just got stale which is
natural for any long-running entertainment show or
television show in general.

A suggestion for when the show comes back next year would
be to make it more irreverent or tongue in cheek, reflecting
what most people write on Twitter during the show.

Caroline Flack and Olly Murs manage to do a great job
on the ITV 2 sister show, balancing a witty chemistry without
being snide as a whole and if that could be brought on to the
main show it would be just as good.

Dermot could pull that off, he managed to do so on T4
and Big Brother's Little Brother.

An article on this sort of topic is bound to gain comments
in response and certainly those that will have me raising my
voice for no good reason.

One of them suggesting they should bring back Gladiators
and not because I didn't like the series (though it quickly
ran out of steam), but because they brought back Gladiators
not long ago for two series on Sky 1.

Did you watch that when it aired?

Did you balls.

That said, ITV1 has once again jumped on the revival bandwagon
already with Holly Willoughby's Surprise Surprise which since
Holly's arrival on the show, has required more than one use of
tissues when watching.

It shows no sign of stopping in 2013 as in January, Holly's
Ministry Of Mayhem presenting partner Stephen Mulhern
will be presenting a revival of Catchphrase with new 3D
graphics.

Apparently the 3 dimensional Mr Chips looks really scary.

Seriously though, whilst they're old formats they're succesful
too and having been given adequate resting time, I'm actually
excited about their return.

Maybe The X Factor could learn from the same book.