Fox Set Premiere Date For X Factor USA
Fox’s new potential hit reality series X Factor USA is to begin with a four-hour, two-night special in late September, after the network released the details of the new show’s premiere.
The televised auditions of the singing contest, as well as an introduction to the show will occur on the evening of Wednesday 21 September at 20:00 ET, before the following day (Thursday 22 September, also 20:00 ET) sees a further two-hour episode containing more of the opening auditions.
After this opening extravaganza from Fox, the show is likely to revert to airing once a week, gradually going through the auditions, boot camp, and judge’s houses stages, before reaching the weekly live shows, which will air two episodes a week (a performance show with a results show the following day), if the UK format is to be followed. The first series of X Factor USA is then due to end in December, much like its counterpart across the Atlantic has been doing throughout its seven series so far.
Following the controversial appointment and sacking of English singer Cheryl Cole, the line-up for the series will see judges Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul, Nicole Scherzinger, and LA Reid joined by show presenter Steve Jones.
Nicole had originally been the co-host of Steve Jones, but Cheryl’s sacking after visiting just two audition cities (Los Angeles and Chicago), meant that the Pussycat Dolls singer was promoted to a seat on the panel.
A loose end left by the long-running Cheryl Cole dismissal story, though, was whether or not the audition clips featuring her will be used on the show. Fox, however, do not seem keen on the idea of dropping all that footage, and have claimed that the Los Angeles and Chicago auditions will feature on the series, with executives likely to describe Cheryl as a ‘guest judge’.
The show has captured the imagination of the American public, with hopefuls turning out in their thousands for the unfilmed producer’s auditions, while the show has also implemented a greater level of integration with technology and networking, with YouTube and ‘recording booth’ auditions being made avaliable for people who were unable to journey across America to perform in person for the producers.
With a record-breaking $5M recording contract on the line along with global stardom, X Factor USA is likely to be responsible for the next big music sensation, but who will it be?
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Not to nitpick, but if the show DOES follow the UK’s scheduling then the show WON’T revert to once a week after the premiere. It’s probably going to be like Idol with the two episodes a week deal, and if it wants to finish in December (especially around Christmastime, which is when the show prefers to end) it can’t afford to only have one episode a week after the premiere. There will be 6 auditions total and they’ll show two a week so they can get the auditions over with in 3 weeks. Bootcamp will last one week if they show two episodes and Judges Houses will last one week if they show two episodes as well. (there are two days of Bootcamp, and two days of Judges Houses) After Judges Houses we should go right into the Live Shows though, where they’ll show it twice a week. (one performance show and one result show a week) And, if it follows the UK’s format, we’ll have 10 weeks of Live Shows. The only thing I can’t figure out though is what they’ll do with the Live Shows scheduled for Thanksgiving week (will they just air it Tuesday and Wednesday that week or give the acts/judges/host a week off?) since the Results Show will air Thanksgiving Day if they don’t change anything. The only other thing that confuses me is when the show will end, because even if they do follow my schedule the show won’t end ’til the 28th of December at the earliest, which is a lot later than when the UK show airs. Ah well, guess we’ll see.
The Cheryl Cole thing isn’t hard to figure out though — like they did with Brian Friedman on the UK show they’ll keep all the auditions filmed with her in tact and keep her in all the footage too. The only thing I can’t figure out is how they’ll explain her departure. The UK show just bluntly said Brian wasn’t working and that they fired him because of it (although they smoothed it over a bit by making him become the Creative Director of the show) but with Cheryl they might not be so willing to be blunt. (if her departure is due to anything controversial, anyway) But they can’t just pass her off as a guest judge though since Nicole was filmed as the co-host too, so it would be weird to say Cheryl’s a guest judge filling in for Nicole when she’s there, unless they edit the footage of her helping Steve out.
Also, what time is 20:00 ET, out of curiosity? xD