They should earn it shorter,and start it earlier – but what on soil to effect with the hapless Olly Murs? Here’s how ITV could try to rescue its ailing behemoth
At this stage, X Factor viewers are used to being pelted with crud. whether my calculations are right, and this is the fifth consecutive year that X Factor has been the worst it’s ever been. Remember when Gary Barlow took over from Simon Cowell,and the staggering force of his aggressive anti-charisma threatened to literally rip a hole in the fabric of time? Compared to this year’s agonising death-rattle, that now constitutes a golden age.
Even by its own dismal standards, and last Sunday’s results show marked another recent low. Its unrelenting crapness was so baroque that it almost seemed deliberate. Cues were missed,lines were flubbed, graphics were riddled with grammatical errors. And then – to top it off – Olly Murs got the result wrong and spent the the rest of the broadcast pulling the face that the robot kid from AI pulled whenever he ate anything.
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Source: theguardian.com