The con-factor

[TVC_Colwal]

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Going by today's news it seems the x-factor is making it up as it goes along...
Not only has it asked thousands of people to vote on who should stay or go thinking their £ vote meant something, making Cowell & Co huge amounts of money - it now seems their vote means nothing in that they (the four elite) choose who goes through to the final.

Seems to me that it is just another line of cons from TV Shows regarding premium rate calls:

ITV: Ten million fake premium rate calls

Richard and Judy

If anyone wants to support this show then they must be out of their tiny mind

SMASH the XFactor http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=146477315404735

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seems to be a place for attracting possable benefit cheats too, wagner for one "will be "asked to come in and explain himself" to benefits officials after reportedly claiming he was unable to work because of a frozen shoulder." and "One of the people who was working on his case, I understand this, I don't know precisely, noticed he (Wagner) was managing to leap in the air with his arms held above him when I am told that he had a frozen shoulder and frozen shoulders tend to mean that you can't have your arm in the air; it's impossible and therefore he was off work."
..http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20101205/...o-ea4616c.html.

[StunnedSilence]

colin if this is true it's for ofcom to decide what happens to the show. Even if they don't win they still get something out of the show, be that publicity.

[TVC_Colwal]

colin if this is true it's for ofcom to decide what happens to the show. Even if they don't win they still get something out of the show, be that publicity.

You don't actually believe that do you? And by the way it is true check it out for yourself on the net.

And I couldn't care a flying sausage about the contestants, as I was more referring to the poor fools who phoned into the show as it was a pointless exercise.

[Jonathan]

I really don't care who wins pretty much everyone who makes it into the live show gets famous and contracts. Like how JLS are more famous than Joe McElderry. Hence why I don't vote for anyone.

But I don't think it's right to just go out and buy a song in order to stop a real christmas number, whether its X Factor winner or not. As you say Simon Cowell makes enough money from the show, so it doesn't affect him if less people buy the winners album, the person who it affects is the winner, who is pretty talented no matter what you think of the show.

btw those links are from 2007, quite a bit has changed since then

[TVC_Colwal]

OMG we have a x-factor fan

I really don't care who wins pretty much everyone who makes it into the live show gets famous and contracts. Like how JLS are more famous than Joe McElderry. Hence why I don't vote for anyone.

Who are JLS and who are Joe McElderry? Wouldn't really say that either of them are famous....

But I don't think it's right to just go out and buy a song in order to stop a real christmas number, whether its X Factor winner or not.

Oh I 'defiantly' (misspelled on purpose) do, then it can stop rubbish like this from littering our screens.

the person who it affects is the winner, who is pretty talented no matter what you think of the show.

I think that is a matter of opinion don't you!

btw those links are from 2007, quite a bit has changed since then

It is a historical reference about shows ripping off people, so you are saying the crap-factor didn't rip people off?

[marcy]

go colin! pop raping telly isn't much fun.

[thanky]

Basically known this all along myself. Why else would crap like Wagner or those Irish lads from last year get so much publicity and get through so many rounds.... it's just a plan to frustrate people into ringing up and vote for their favourite to try and stop the crap acts getting further...then the whole cycle continues until the latter rounds. Most reality shows are run in this way and the way they beg for viewers to reach for their phone and vote is cringe worthy indeed. It just makes the various phone companies, the shows directors etc and the Government ( due to taxes etc ) rich. Each to their own, but if i caught my children or wife phoning in i'd ( thankfully they feel the same way as myself ) i'd hit the roof.

Imagine of these shows were made to have free phone numbers etc.... we all know that they would be taken off air. It's just a money making scam and the majority of the people they pray on are teenagers and love struck bored housewives etc.

Another thing which bugs me immensely is the growing trend for a hell of a lot of programmes which say... " Your chance to win a prize/money...just answer this question ( you will need a IQ of about 3 to get it wrong ) by ringing this premium number.... Does anyone ever win anything or is it just a made up name ? Who gives a toss anyway ? I guess as long as you have enough stupid people in the World who feed the rich cats then these sort of things will only increase.

It's a sad World we live in and the way the power of TV prays on certain sectors of society is deplorable and damn right wrong!!

As for that [-]Mafia boss[/-] bent git Sepp Blatter and his cronies at FIFA.

Rant over.