{"id":4960,"date":"2015-07-23T14:02:45","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T13:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/?p=4960"},"modified":"2015-07-23T14:03:41","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T13:03:41","slug":"changes-to-the-x-factor-for-2015-and-start-date-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/4960\/changes-to-the-x-factor-for-2015-and-start-date-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes to The X Factor for 2015 and start date revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 12th series of The X Factor gets on the way in August and their will be a number of changes to the long running ITV show in a bit to win back viewers.<\/p>\n<p>The first change is in the judging panel line-up: Out goes Scary Spice Mel B. and veteran judge Louis Walsh and in comes new judges Rita Ora and Nick Grimshaw.<\/p>\n<p>The next change is the host of the show: Out goes Dermot O&#8217;Leary who is replaced by not one but two presenters,  Olly Murs and Caroline Flack.<\/p>\n<p>Next up is the auditions format: Out goes the closed room auditions leaving only the arena auditions before bootcamp.<\/p>\n<p>There is also expected to be changes to the Judges Houses format with the show being aired live but this is yet to be confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, with the UK hosting the Rugby World cup this year there will be fewer live shows.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2014\/10\/x-factor-2014-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2014\/10\/x-factor-2014-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"x factor 2014 logo\" width=\"460\" height=\"348\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2014\/10\/x-factor-2014-logo.jpg 460w, https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2014\/10\/x-factor-2014-logo-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-0466605792016836\";\n\/* auditions mid page 300x250, created 9\/6\/10 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"2217652781\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 12th series of The X Factor gets on the way in August and their will be a number of changes to the long running ITV show in a bit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-4960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-the-x-factor-2013","clearfix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2014\/10\/x-factor-2014-logo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4960"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4964,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960\/revisions\/4964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}