After 12 years of warbling renditions of 'Fields of Gold' and people saying "You really put your stamp on it", The X Factor might finally be behind us.

It has been reported that Simon Cowell is planning on "resting" the show, following its ratings low of 5.39m with the last season, to make way for The Voice UK's ITV arrival (a move akin to replacing a cloth with a flannel if you ask me, but there you go).

"[ITV] will rest the X Factor for 2017 because there is no way they can run two singing contests and BGT in the same year, they cannot do it," a source told The Daily Mail, which oddly chose to focus their story on Cowell wearing a tracksuit near his house.

"Particularly because the X Factor contract is coming to an end and it has been a disaster.

"If The Voice is a success it's unlikely they will bring back the X Factor but if The Voice is a disaster they have the X Factor."

Cowell has said in the past that he would retire the show if people stopped watching, while X Factor executive producer Richard Holloway admitted in September that the series had a "finite lifespan".

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i wouldn't mind now compared to other years i would have been devastated.

i always hear people saying their tired of the manipulation etc.. and frankly so am i

tell us queen

good

I feel like the singing talent shows are all kind of getting irrelevant nowadays because the standards lowered dramatically over the past few years.... I remember when American Idol contestants could outsing the popstars tenfold but as of late most just sound like glorified karaoke singers

Yeah I've been telling everyone that it's ending this year because Its obvious.

The contract is ending, the ratings have been shocking, people are tired of the manipulation and the same songs/performers.

I stopped watching last year once Monica got eliminated and only tuned in for the mess of a final. It was terrible.

fff not with the voice tho probably the most boring talent show ever and all the people from that show flop say what you want but UK X factor is the only talent show that keep getting at least one decent success per season with some even scoring global hits. No one has ever done this before and they still make money out of it but yeahhh maybe its time to end it before it keeps decreasing.

Still the voice tho

God is real!

And Strictly goes from strength to strength.. interesting

The shameless bump

True

It stopped being good in 2011. They've been rehashing the same concepts and criticisms for years now and frankly, there's only so much of that nonsense you can stomach before it gets boring.

The prefer the X-Factor's format, but whatever. We all know The Voice will see the success they're looking for

Meh, it's not like we'll get another big success out of these shows anyway.

Not sure why they even try. Most of the biggest success tends to come from places like Youtube these days for breakouts.

A few years too late

Yeah... this isn't happening.

Good.