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ITV won’t move X-Factor to spring

By | Published on Thursday 14 January 2010

ITV has denied reports it plans to move ‘X-Factor’ into an early-in-the-year slot next year so to allow Simon Cowell to appear on the US version of the show, which Fox plan to launch in Autumn 2011.

Given Cowell plans to be involved in both the UK and the new US version of the show come next year, some have wondered how that will be possible if both series enter the live-show sing-off stage of the competition at the same time. Even with the time difference it wouldn’t be possible for Si to judge on a live Saturday night show in London and then another one a few hours later on the other side of the Atlantic. That led to speculation ITV might be forced to move its ‘X-Factor’ to a slot in the first half of the year.

But an ITV spokesman said yesterday: “We are absolutely planning for ‘X-Factor’ to return this autumn and next”. Of course ‘American Idol’ airs on a week night in the US, and it’s entirely possible ‘X-Factor’ will as well, so in theory it will be possible for Cowell to do both shows providing he’s up for a carbon-rich Atlantic-hopping few weeks.



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