Simon Cowell is reportedly in talks to relaunch The X Issue within the US.
The stateside model of the musical TV expertise present was launched by Cowell in 2011, seven years after the UK model began in 2004. It ran for 3 seasons till Cowell returned to the UK present in 2014.
After the UK X Issue was cancelled final 12 months after 17 seasons, sources inform Deadline that Cowell is eager to carry it again to screens in america.
The report states that talks are underway to revive the sequence on NBC, with Cowell lately telling The Solar that the community had “supplied us to make the present”.
No additional particulars are but out there.
Earlier this 12 months, it was introduced {that a} documentary is within the works which is able to examine claims of bullying and harassment behind-the-scenes on the ITV present.
Two manufacturing corporations are believed to be engaged on the TV particular, which is able to embody interviews with former contestants who declare “bullying, exploitation and harassment” befell off-camera on the singing competitors.
In line with The Mail On Sunday, a variety of X Factor stars have agreed to participate, together with “at the least one” of decide Cowell‘s former aides.
A supply advised the publication: “There are presently some former contestants telling their tales for the programme. There are some on the market who consider they had been mistreated by the X Issue machine. They’re now going to get their probability to have a say.”
Numerous former contestants have been vital of the present lately. After the present was axed by ITV final 12 months, Jedward posted on Twitter: “X Issue has been axed. Mission Full.”
Chatting with ITV Information, John Grimes from the duo mentioned: “I really feel lots of people have been exploited on the present, folks behind the scenes, completely different contestants have come ahead and shared their tales.”