The letter X in the X-Factor refers to an unknown talent which is hidden inside a
person who can become a star.It was started by Simon Cowell in Britain as a singing competition.The main theme of this TV show is to find all the hidden gifted singers.While this show replaced the famous TV show "pop idol" it happened to make the same kind of impact on the general public.Many countries have embraced this concept with a lot of popularity.Also the Hungarian edition is known as X-Faktor.
Though X-Factor is originally a search for talented singers, it does not confine itself only with singing; along with singing the individual will be assessed for various traits to be a star.They evaluate a person on the basis of their presentation and uniform performance.There have been seven shows that have been put on air till date with each show lasting for about 60-120 minutes ginal TV channel for this most hyped show is ITV (UK) and TV3 (Ireland).This show running since September 2004 to till date.
The X-Factor game show is carried out in various categories.The dividion is made on account of ones age and gender.One small change that the earlier series and the 4-5 series had was in terms of the age limit for entry which was earlier 16 and above and was brought down to 14 and above.Currently in series 7 the age has been fixed at 16-27 for boys and girls.The singer has to pass through five stages in the X-Factor competition which will be the best singer.The contestants will have to perform before the producers at the first stage who will decide the talents going to sing in front of the judges.At this stage the judges will sort out and only the qualified ones will go to the Boot camp.At this boot camp stage the contestants are very sternly evaluated for it is conducted in the Judge's house.
The "live show" also comes in two series.In the first series contestants will perform before the huge crowd and second series for analyzing the results based on judges and with public voting.It's a hi-fi drama with more emotions and celebrities performing at the middle will be a huge surprise as well.Final result is purely based on public voting and the contestant with fewer votes will be remover at that stage.The final winner will be given an recording deal with the leading Sony music entertainment.What if there have been so many deliberations associated with the X-Factor show it is still very good at providing the needed entertainment to the general public.