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Amazon Orders Cop Drama Pilot Based On Michael … Who knew that The X Factor judge Simon Cowell had his own SuperPac? He certainly has a lot of political capital with Fox, as this election-season morsel comes only a few days after Cowell took the network to task for botching its airing of X Factor. On Monday, Fox renewed the series for a third season.
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Fox’s ‘X Factor’ Renewed For Third Season
The X Factor may be down from last year, but it still has been the strongest ratings performer for Fox this fall, so the network is renewing the singing competition for a third season. … Read More »
“Total F Up”: Baseball Rain Delay Pushes Tonight’s ‘X Factor’ To Tuesday, Will Preempt Comedy Block And Face NBC’s ‘The Voice’
They meet again! After a scheduling move by NBC pitted the network’s The Voice and Fox’s The X Factor during their premiere week, the two singing competition series will go head-to-head again on Tuesday after Fox rescheduled tonight’s episode because … Read More »
‘The X-Factor’ Names Khloe Kardashian & Mario Lopez Hosts
Reality star Khloe Kardashian and Mario Lopez will host Season 2 of Fox’s singing competition … Read More »
Simon Cowell & Will.i.am Eye “X-Factor For Tech” Show
The X-Factor judge and Black Eyed Peas frontman have been talking about putting together a technology-based competition show, Deadline has learned. Will.i.am first brought up the idea of the collaboration with Simon Cowell at the UK’s Royal Television Society’s “When Worlds Collide” conference last week. “We’re working on a project called X-Factor for tech, and it’s going to be out of this world,” the singer said via a live video conference Q&A from LA, according to reports in the British press. Will.i.am told the conference he and Cowell discussed the idea a couple of weeks ago over dinner. Part of the concept to make the as-yet-unnamed project unique from X-Factor or American Idol was economic scale: “Singing and performance create a couple of jobs, but this will create jobs,” Will.i.am said. Read More »
Syco TV Chief Shu Greene Segues To ITV Studios As Director Of Entertainment
Tuesday 1st May 2012 – ITV Studios UK is delighted to announce that award-winning programme-maker, Shu Greene, currently Head of Television at Syco TV and producer and creator of some of the biggest shows on UK and US television, is joining ITV Studios UK in the newly-created role of Director of Entertainment, ITVS.
Returning to her original TV home, Shu will lead the entertainment team to create and deliver great entertainment programming for both ITV and non-ITV channels, spearheading ITV Studios’ ambition to be the home for the best talent both on-screen, in development and production.
Syco Names COO Charles Garland To CEO Post, Exec Will Oversee Global TV Biz
Syco Entertainment, the joint venture between Simon Cowell and Sony Music Entertainment, today announces that Charles Garland will become the worldwide CEO with immediate effect.
Formerly the COO, his role will now include leadership of Syco’s global TV business.
Charles joined Syco in March 2011 from Crystal Entertainment, the company he founded in 2007 and served as Chief Executive. He previously served at 19 Entertainment for 8 years, helping to build up its key brands globally. Before that he worked at Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH) as Group Development Director, working with brands including Audi, Natwest and BT, and where he was responsible for building the agency’s international operations, which involved launching offices in Asia and the US.
Simon Cowell’s ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ Shifts Schedule To Avoid Clash With ‘The Voice UK’
Has Simon Cowell blinked? With BBC One’s The Voice UK steadily gaining on Cowell’s Britain’s Got Talent over on ITV, the latter network will step out of the line of fire for upcoming episodes. Beginning April 21, BGT will kick off 30 minutes later than it has for the past several weeks, and 10 minutes after The Voice ends. ITV originally set a challenge to The Voice when it moved BGT ahead several weeks so the two shows would debut on the same night. This had followed an earlier bidding war in which both networks were vying for broadcast rights to The Voice. BGT also brought back Cowell as a judge this year in a widely touted move.
As I reported on Tuesday, although BGT’s ratings were originally ahead of The Voice, the BBC One show beat BGT in the overall ratings for the first time this past Saturday and has been steadily adding viewers over its three frames. Key however is the fact that the shows only overlapped for a 20-minute period with The Voice airing from 7-8:20pm and BGT from 8-9:20pm. It’s that 20-minute space where The Voice has soared past BGT each week, Read More »
Britney Spears Nears Deal For ‘The X Factor’
I hear that Britney Spears is close to a deal to join Simon Cowell on the judging panel of The X Factor in Season 2. Spears had been in talks for the gig for over … Read More »
Simon Cowell Sends “Irritated Congrats” In Battle Of ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ Vs ‘The Voice’
On May 14, Howard Stern will debut as a judge on NBC’s new-look America’s Got Talent. That show will follow the week-earlier season finale of The Voice, also on NBC. But the UK versions of those shows, which air on … Read More »
‘The Voice’ U.K. Debuts In Face-Off With Simon Cowell On ‘Britain’s Got Talent’
The UK version of singing competition show The Voice premiered on Saturday night to strong ratings, but only beat Simon Cowell’s Britain’s Got Talent for 20 minutes. The Voice, airing on BBC1, drew an average 8.43 million viewers in its … Read More »
Britney Spears Offered $10 Million For ‘X Factor’
Britney Spears will likely fill one of the vacant mentor/judge seats next to Simon Cowell on The X Factor. I have learned that, following an overture by Cowell and an initial discussion, the pop … Read More »
Simon Cowell On Search For New ‘X Factor’ Hosts & Judges, Whitney Houston And More
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The X Factor creator, executive producer and judge Simon Cowell disclosed today that in Season 2, the show will return to its original template of two co-hosts — a male and a female — which was in place last year with Steve Jones and Nicole Scherzinger until Cheryl Cole was sent home and Scherzinger moved to the judges’ table. Cowell also confirmed that the two new mentors replacing the axed Paula Abdul and Nicole Scherzinger will be female. Beyond that, Cowell wouldn’t give specifics during an afternoon conference call with reporters promoting the show’s Season 2 auditions that launch nationwide on March 1. Read More »
Simon Cowell Addresses ‘X Factor’ Shakeup, Potential Judge Replacements
A week after the bloodbath on his Fox series The X Factor, in which judges Paula Abdul and Nicole Scherzinger and host Steve Jones were axed, Simon Cowell today addressed the controversy. In an interview with confidant and former flame, Extra’s Terri Seymour, he suggested that the pink slips came via a direct order from Fox. “It was fairly straight what they wanted, and we were told it had to happen straight away,” Cowell said. He praised Abdul for being “gracious” about her dismissal in their phone conversation. “She understands it’s business; it’s never personal… I would’ve liked to have kept her.”
As for Scherzinger, “I don’t think she’s mad. I think she’s disappointed,” Cowell said. He heaped praise on “L.A.” Reid, the only personality beside him to make it to Season 2. “There’s not a record executive out there who is as good as him for the job.”
Cowell dismissed suggestions that things didn’t quite work on the first season of The X Factor, evoking his now infamous pre-launch ratings prediction. “Most things did work. It’s only because I opened my big mouth and said we were going to get 20 million [viewers]. If I hadn’t said that, everybody would be saying the show as a new show was a huge success.” Read More »
L.A. Reid’s ‘X Factor’ Option For Season 2 Officially Picked Up
As we and others reported on Monday, the dismissal of Paula Abdul, Nicole Scherzinger and Steve Jones left judge “L.A.” Reid as the only X Factor personality besides … Read More »
Paula Abdul Won’t Return To ‘X Factor’ In Season 2 Shakeup By Simon Cowell
BREAKING… EXCLUSIVE: Today at The X Factor there was a bloodbath which just claimed its biggest name. Not only are host Steve Jones and judge Nicole Scherzinger exiting from the Fox show, but now a Simon Cowell … Read More »
Simon Cowell & Will Smith Team With Sony TV For International Music Reality Series
Simon Cowell’s SYCO ENTERTAINMENT has partnered with Jada Pinkett-Smith and Will Smith’s OVERBROOK ENTERTAINMENT on the development and launch of a live, new international TV format to find the world’s greatest DJs.
This new format has already been developed and will be co-produced by SYCO and OVERBROOK. The show will capture the incredible rise of the DJ phenomena. It has been in development for over a year and SYCO, OE and Sony Pictures Television will soon announce their broadcast partners in both the US and the UK.
Report: Steve Jones Leaving ‘The X Factor’
UPDATE: A rep for Jones called the Daily Mirror story “a fabrication.” “There have been absolutely no conv
ersations about Steve Jones Leaving The X Factor,” the rep said. “Steve is very happy with the outcome of this season … Read More »
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