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 Description: .youtube. FOR MORE VIDEOS 1st live final The X Factor is a British television singing petition contested by aspiring singers drawn from public auditions. It is the originator of the international X Factor franchise. The seven series of the show to date have aired from AugustSeptember through to December. The show is produced by FremantleMedias talkbackTHAMES and Simon Cowells production pany SYCOtv. The X Factor of the title refers to the undefinable something that makes for star quality.1 The show is broadcast on the ITV network in the United Kingdom and on TV3 in Ireland with spinoff behindthescenes shows The Xtra Factor and The X Factor 247 screened on ITV2 and TV3. The X Factor was devised as a replacement for the highly successful Pop Idol which was put on indefinite hiatus after its second series largely because Simon Cowell wished to launch a show that he owned the television rights to. The perceived similarity between the shows later became the subject of a legal dispute. In the initial televised audition phase of the show contestants sing in front of the judges currently Simon Cowell Louis Walsh Dannii Minogue and Cheryl Cole and from series 6 a live audience in the hope of getting through to the boot camp round. After a further selection process the judges are each given a category to mentor and the chosen finalists then progress to the final phase of the petition during which the public vote for their ...

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