The X Factor producers have been taking tips from the Hunger Games.
If you are one of the 15 people who is not watching The X Factor this season, then you won’t be aware that Sunday’s episode of the talent show introduced a BRAND NEW, EXCLUSIVE format to belittle contestants and humiliate young musicians with big dreams.
It’s the Five Seat Challenge — so new, so different.
After the audition rounds, each contestant performs for the judges and gets to take a seat on one of five chairs if they are successful. But when the chairs are full, and there are still more contestants to perform, the judges have to make a very difficult decision. Do they keep the person who just performed, and kick off someone who already has a seat?
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Cue highly intense emotions and a lot of dramatic pauses.
Australian audiences are unimpressed. It seems unnecessarily cruel to let people believe they are in, and then throw them out, in front of a live audience.
Taking to Twitter to criticise the new format, audiences described watching the challenge as ‘painful’.