X Factor's rule changes have achieved the impossible – they make it more unwatchable

Even Dermot O’Leary doesn’t understand how X Factor’s new rules work – they’re so complicated you need a PhD in advanced quantum pointlessness to understand them. Surely the show is now in its death throes

I’m writing this on the assumption that you didn’t watch X Factor this weekend. Because you didn’t, did you? Your life is short, you’re not being subjected to a form of Clockwork Orange-style aversion therapy by a sinister cabal of scientists and there was a programme about fish on the other side.

And that’s just as well. Because, if you did watch X Factor, you probably would have found yourself being baffled to the very point of unconsciousness. The first of this year’s live shows began on Saturday, and with them came some format changes so infuriatingly labyrinthine that they even managed to outfox the show’s own host.

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from The Guardian http://ift.tt/2lwxOsM