Chapter 2084： bayonet see red

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The first season of "The X Factor" kicked off on Wednesday, January 7, 2009, and the eighth season of "American Idol" kicked off on Fox on Tuesday, January 13, 2009. This has also become the most anticipated duel in front of the TV audience in 2009.

From this timing, you can see a lot of mysteries. Generally speaking, "American Idol" occupies the schedule on Tuesday and Wednesday. In the live broadcast stage, Tuesday is the performance episode, and Wednesday is the result episode. According to the performance of the ratings, the ratings and the number of viewers on Tuesday are far away. higher than Wednesday's.

Therefore, "X Factor" chose its schedule on Wednesday and Thursday. In the live broadcast stage, Wednesday was the performance set, and Thursday was the result set. On Wednesday, it became the "X Factor" performance set to confront each other head-on. The result set of "American Idol", in this way, according to normal inferences, it will obviously have a slight upper hand. For a brand-new talent show, it is obviously a more wise choice to shake the giant "American Idol" .

In the face of the menacing "X factor", the main reason why "American Idol" did not adjust the schedule is because the audience has become accustomed to the broadcast time on Tuesday and Wednesday, and the results of easily changing the schedule may be devastating. On top of that, Fox's confidence in the past seven seasons of "American Idol" is also crucial.

In addition, "X Factor" chose to start broadcasting a week earlier than "American Idol", and also hoped to use the first week to broadcast two consecutive episodes without competitors. Attract some viewers who are curious about the new talent show, thereby laying more foundations for the hard battles in the future.

In fact, Fox TV has made adjustments in response to this. Before that, "American Idol" was originally scheduled to be broadcast on January 20, but this way, the "X Factor" will win more Respite, it's not good news for "American Idol." Therefore, Fox TV simply broadcast it a week earlier. On the one hand, it compresses the breathing space of the "X factor", and on the other hand, it also gives oneself the opportunity to observe the opponent, so as to make more adjustments to the future broadcast.

A simple question of broadcast time and broadcast time period shows that the reality show war in 2009 attracted the attention of countless people.

Returning to the draft itself, since this is a draft event attended by all the people, what can really be controlled by the TV station is the part of the judges and producers. The competition between TV stations and Fox TV stations for the judges started as early as June 2008, and it lasted for more than half a year. The dust finally settled when the audition began.

"American Idol" is still produced by Nigel Leggs, and only Randy Jackson remains on the judges. Songwriter and producer Keira Diogatti, host and actor Ellen DeGeneres, and agent and producer Simon Fowler join the American Idol family.

I have to say that after "American Idol" lost Simon Cowell and Paula Abadoo, the lineup of judges suffered heavy losses, but the addition of Simon Fowler showed the strong ambition of the program team. Simon Fowler has not given up his attempt to make the big cake of the draft show after being deflated several times in the hands of Evan Bell. This is also the biggest difference from the previous life. After losing the copyright of the talent show, Simon Fowler has become an indispensable part of "American Idol" in a different way. And Keira - Diogati is the biggest supplement to the professional authority of the jury, Ellen DeGeneres is the biggest adjustment to the lively atmosphere of the show.

The re-integrated "American Idol" jury is still very topical.

"The X Factor" brings together two producers, Simon Cowell and Mark Bonet. Mark Bonet is more than just an internal Eleven studio liaison. He is one of the most famous producers inside the TV station. His works include "Survivor", "The Apprentice", "You Are Five". Are elementary school students smart?" and other masterpieces.

As for the judges, under the operation of Simon Cowell, the "X Factor" has been breaking news since June 2008, and it also experienced the best news that Cheryl Cole signed to join the judges and then quit. , Cheryl Cole is one of the regular judges on the UK version of The X Factor. In the international aspect, there is also constant news. This time Simon Cowell originally hoped to use the popularity of Cheryl Cole to boost the ratings, but unfortunately it failed in the end.

The final judges for the "X Factor" were Paula Abadoo. The good old man who has served as a judge on "American Idol" for seven years, has a high popularity among the audience of American talent shows; Anthony L.A. Reed, he is the CEO of Universal's Def.Jam record company, The hip-hop label has big names such as Mariah Carey, Rihanna, Jay-Z, Kanye West, and Nicole Scherzinger, the most popular member of the girl group Little Wildcats.

In such a lineup of judges, Anthony L.A. Reid is in charge of the professional part, Paula Abadoo is in charge of the white face, Simon Cowell is the red face, and Nicole Scherzinger is the singer The representative of the image and the part responsible for popularity. On the whole, it can be said that it is very thoughtful, and it is worthy of the ambition of the TV station.

Evan Bell was rehearsing for the Oscars for the "X Factor" and "American Idol" showdown, but he took the time to express concern, except because they were both among the "Voice of America" ​​rivals. In addition, the biggest reason is that the melee of this year's talent show has shown a completely different trend from the previous life, which makes Evan Bell very curious about the result.

In the last life, "The X Factor" failed miserably and had an amazing start, but in the end it fell to the point of sadness and tears; "American Idol" drank chronic poison and went downhill year by year, before Evan Bell was reborn. At the time, the twelfth season was auditioning, but it had already entered the stage where it needed to rely on malicious hype among the judges to maintain its attention; "Voice of America" ​​was on the rise, with innovative draft methods and professional selection results, winning popular with the public.

In addition, it is also worth mentioning that in the last life, "X Factor" and "American Idol" belonged to Fox TV, and there was no direct competition between the two. "X Factor" chose the autumn file, which is September Launched; "American Idol" sticks to the spring schedule and starts broadcasting in January. Moreover, Fox TV is definitely not a bowl of water in terms of resource tilt, and it is unknown whether this has an impact on the results.

Therefore, this time, the competition between TV stations, Fox TV stations and CBS TV stations can bring the "X Factor" back to life in the United States, whether Fox can restore the dominance of "American Idol", and CBS can use "Voice of America" ​​to get rid of The decline of the elderly station is worthy of attention.

On January 7th, "X Factor" was launched, with 22 million viewers and a rating of 4.8. This result can be regarded as a big hit, far exceeding expectations. The number of viewers on January 8 remained at the same level, but the viewership fell slightly by 0.1 percentage points to a score of 4.7.

It can be seen that the "X factor", which has invested a lot of energy and expenditure, handed in a satisfactory answer in the first week. During the audition period, 18,000 people gathered in Los Angeles at the first stop to participate in the audition, which is even more good news for the "X Factor", because such achievements can only be achieved during the glorious period of "American Idol" number. Of course, the "X factor" allows for group participation, which is one of the reasons the number of entries creates such a scale, so there is no direct comparison value.

In the second week that followed, "The X Factor" went head-to-head with the new season's "American Idol" and launched a bayonet-to-knife hand-to-hand battle. In the end, "American Idol" narrowly won!

"American Idol" premiered its new season on Tuesday, attracting 27 million viewers, with a rating of 5.3, not to mention the 40.8 million that Evan Bell participated in the Seattle audition in 2007. In comparison, even compared with last year's premiere ratings, it has dropped by a full 13 percentage points, and the number of viewers has returned to the level of 20 million, which is a huge step backward for "American Idol"!

Wednesday's "American Idol" was a little bit warmer has 28 million viewers and a rating of 5.4. This is the first time in five years that Wednesday's ratings are higher than Tuesday's. It is generally believed that, That's because the loyal audience of "American Idol" erupted with violent energy in the face of competition from the "X Factor". Under the unprecedented upset of "American Idol", the performance of "X Factor" is not satisfactory, let alone surpassing "American Idol", even compared with his performance last week, it is a decline. Yes, with 20 million viewers, the ratings dropped to 4.6.

However, such a ratio is not good for the situation of "American Idol" in the past few years. The lack of the "American Idol" after Simon Cowell is obviously badly damaged, and the overall ratings have dropped significantly, while winning the "X Factor" of Simon Cowell and Paula Abadoo It showed sufficient competitiveness, especially in the positive competition on Wednesday. Although the "X factor" was hit, it did not collapse. On the contrary, it still handed over a good answer sheet and announced to everyone: "X Factor" has the ability to compete with "American Idol"!

On Thursday, the number of viewers for "X Factor" picked up again, with 21 million viewers and 4.8 viewers, making the TV station confident!

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