The U.S. version of The X Factor was cancelled in February. However, the man behind the show Simon Cowell told FT Weekend published Friday, he is optimistic the show will return to the U.S.
Cowell explained why the show was cancelled: "I stupidly said at the beginning, ‘We’re going to get 20 million people.’ I didn’t realize the market had changed so quickly and we got 12. So I felt from the outset that we’d failed and so did everybody else. I should have thought, ‘Actually, 12 is fantastic’, and kept my mouth shut. I think, on both sides, it was a mistake to throw the towel in,"
According to Cowell "I think it will come back again. The thing about X Factor is you know what you’re getting... [I]f we said, ‘There’s a low base of five to six million’, we might build on that but it won’t be less, compared to a new drama that might only be a million. There’s a reason it produces so many stars, unlike the other shows. It doesn’t rely on gimmicks: a spinning chair, or a wall going up and down. I genuinely do believe it’s the best format.”
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