Simon Cowell: ‘The X Factor’ Will Be Back Next Season, I Might Have A Different Kind Of Role
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The show will be back next season,” Simon Cowell said of The X Factor, which this season is clocking its smallest numbers yet and has shed nearly half of its original-season crowd. Asked if he will be back as a judge on the show next season — it’s been widely speculated he’ll return to judging on the UK version – Cowell responded: “As to my role on it. I might have a different kind of role.”
Asked if he was saying he might not be a judge on the show next year, Cowell responded he was “not necessarily saying that,” explaining that the show has “got to be more different next year than it was this year” and that he’s in “the middle of a presentation of what we think the show should look like and what the fans would like. And yes, my role could change.”
Asked if X Factor would be truncated, Cowell said, “Possibly, yeah — I won’t say which night.” Speculation is that the show will be be truncated next season – maybe one night a week, a la ABC’s Dancing With the Stars changed format this season. That would make the show cheaper to produce — it is not profitable this season, according to an informed source — though what would make it a lot cheaper is if Simon did not return as one of the judges.
Singing competition series, Cowell insisted, started off as one-hour programs and have become more like “watching a movie,” as networks asked producers to make them longer and longer “I don’t think is necessarily a good thing,” he said.
The X Factor next season will have to try harder not to look like the other singing competition series. Cowell said it was frustrating in the U.S. that while his show “created the whole mentor thing,” NBC’s The Voice got on the air first and so U.S. viewers came away thinking X was copying Voice. Cowell did not note that that timing had been his and Fox’s doing entirely: in the time it took Fox to announce it had snagged X in a biddiing war and got it premiered, NBC managed to purchase The Voice format, develop it for this country and got it on the air.
So, for next season, Cowell said he needs to make X look less like its competition –in part to attract the best talent. “They all all have a choice now what they can audition for — us, America’s Got Talent, Idol, The Voice — we somehow have to convince them ‘The X Factor is the best one for you’.”
To that end, Cowell said he did not want to bring back this season’s judge/mentor panel.
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http://www.deadline.com/2013/12/simo...-kind-of-role/
I've actually grown to really enjoy Kelly and Paulina, and of course Demi was great like last season. Sometimes I feel like Simon scripts the whole show even when he probably isn't so he pretty much just needs to go. 
