Simon Cowell Says US Networks Need ‘The X-Issue’ Again, Reveals UK Model Would Return “Extra Probably Than Not” In 2024 – Deadline

Simon Cowell is opening up about reviving The X-Issue within the U.S. as he says there are networks eager about bringing again the singing competitors.

Fox aired the fact present for 3 seasons within the U.S. between 2011 and 2013. Though it’s tv run was short-lived, Cowell was in a position to uncover the pop group Fifth Concord throughout season 2 of the sequence. With nearly 10 years off the air, Cowell informed The Solar that networks within the U.S. have expressed curiosity in reviving the competitors.

Though Cowell didn’t reveal how severe the talks are for The X-Issue to return to the U.S., he did say that the U.Okay. model would “extra probably than not” have a comeback in 2024. The OG model of the present found acts like Leona Lewis, Little Combine and One Route over the course of 15 seasons.

The music mogul is presently targeted on StemDrop, a venture on TikTok that helps artistic folks be seen. Nevertheless, Cowell remains to be principally acknowledged for being a choose and producer on The X-Issue.

“The humorous factor is that when younger folks strategy me on the road, all they need to know is when X Issue is coming again,” he says. “All of them watch it on YouTube. Once we stopped the present, I genuinely thought there was no want for it — that everybody could be signed from YouTube. However there are such a lot of folks eager to be signed that we might use that further platform.”

Cowell mentioned that he “would solely do it once more” if The X-Issue returns “to the place the present began” and discover “some nice folks and create these TV moments that dwell perpetually.”

“There must be a real alternative to make it the way it was within the early years, and I might solely do it with somebody who was genuinely obsessed with it,” he added. “I might additionally deliver again the managers and the A&R [artists and repertoire] folks as a substitute of getting artists choose the expertise as a result of I don’t suppose that’s nice.”

Cowell admitted that if the proposals to have The X-Issue come again fall by means of he would “love to do extra mentoring.”

“If X Issue doesn’t come again, I gained’t be in search of different exhibits to seem on. I don’t need to be only a TV persona,” he defined. “The concept of The X Issue not being on so I am going on a sport present . . . I believe I’d bounce off a cliff. I genuinely can’t consider something worse.”

Cowell, the creator of the Obtained Expertise franchise, continues to seem on TV as the chief producer and choose on America’s Obtained Expertise and Britain’s Obtained Expertise.