X Factor May Not Be On Our Screens Much Longer

X Factor - once the King of Saturday night TV and Chrimbo No. 1s- could soon be wiped from our screens after a further plummet in ratings this weekend.

Following in the footsteps of its most famous creation, One Direction, the show’s producer Richard Holloway has admitted the ITV show could take an ‘extended hiatus’ after this series.

Despite it’s latest relaunch, which has seen Mel B and Louis Walsh replaced by Nick Grimshaw and Rita Ora and the casting of new hosts Caroline Flack and Olly Murs, Richard has suggested that taking the show off our screens for a while, might make us hungry for more talent show action in the future.

He told Billboard magazine:

“[X Factor] will have a finite life span. But I think you then rest it , then you bring it back… as long as we produce the show to a standard which the public really, really wants to see… then there is no reason why we can’t produce it for years and years and years.”

Years and years and years is a very long time… maybe it’s best it just stays on a permanent hiatus, Richard.

Considering ex-host Dermot O’Leary recently told The Sun that:

“I got a text from [Louis Walsh] last week saying, ‘They’re missing us, Dermot - have you seen the ratings?’ He was loving that.”

We imagine Louis is chuckling away in his Irish castle at the news…

Check out this amazing audition that made Simon Cowell cry. Yes you read right:

Do you think this mean good music will come back? Or are you gutted at the prospect of a life without X Factor?