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''The X Factor'' is an American reality television music competition created by Simon Cowell and produced by FremantleMedia North America and SYCOtv, a partnership between Cowell and Sony Music Entertainment, which aired on Fox from 2011 to 2013. Based on the original UK show, and an addition to the ''The X Factor'' franchise, the series found new singing talent (solo artists and groups ages 12 and over), drawn from public auditions, and they competed against each other for votes. The winner was determined by the show's viewers via telephone, the Internet, and SMS text voting, and was awarded a recording contract with Cowell's record label Syco Music, worth $5 million in seasons one and two, and $1 million in season three. America voted for the following winners: Melanie Amaro, Tate Stevens, and Alex & Sierra, respectively. The show began airing on September 21, 2011, and aired annually from September through December until 2013. The series employed a panel of judges who critiqued the contestants' performances. Each contestant was assigned to one of four categories. The group acts were one category and the others were based on age or gender. For example, in season 1 the categories were girls, boys, groups, and over 30s. Each judge was assigned to one of the categories,〔 and acted as mentor to the contestants in his or her category, helping to decide song choices, styling, and staging, while also judging contestants from the other categories after each of the live performances. They competed with each other to try to get one of the contestants in their category to win the competition, thus making them the winning judge. The original judging panel consisted of Cowell, Paula Abdul, Cheryl Fernandez-Versini and L.A. Reid, with Nicole Scherzinger and Steve Jones as co-hosts. Scherzinger later replaced Fernandez-Versini on the panel after two audition sites. Demi Lovato and Britney Spears joined the panel in the second season as replacements for Abdul and Scherzinger, while Khloé Kardashian and Mario Lopez replaced Jones as co-hosts. Spears and Reid did not return for the third season and were replaced by Kelly Rowland and Paulina Rubio, while Lopez became sole host after Kardashian was not asked to come back. On February 7, 2014, Fox announced that ''The X Factor'' would not be renewed for a fourth season, following Cowell's decision to return to the UK version of the series a day earlier. ==History== Simon Cowell was previously a judge on the enormously successful reality show ''American Idol'', which was the number one show in the United States for eight consecutive seasons. Cowell was also a judge on the original UK version, ''Pop Idol'', which did not fare so well. Its first series was massively successful, but while the second series was also successful, the viewers' figure for its finale dropped. Some—including ''Pop Idol'' judge Pete Waterman—〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Pete Waterman: "Michelle is rubbish" )〕 considered Michelle McManus an unworthy winner. Cowell wished to launch a new show which he would own the rights to. In 2004, ''Pop Idol'' was axed, and ITV announced a new show in the United Kingdom, ''The X Factor'' which was created by Cowell. However, in the United States, prior to launching ''The X Factor'', Fuller sued Cowell, claiming that he should be credited as an executive producer despite having no involvement with Cowell's new show (Fuller also sued Cowell in the U.K. after ''Pop Idol'' was cancelled due to the success of ''The X Factor''). After the lawsuit in 2011 in the U.S., Cowell was allowed to bring ''The X Factor'' to the United States but could not be credited with the titles "creator" or "executive producer". In April 2009, it was reported that Cowell was planning to try to launch a version of ''The X Factor'' in the U.S. after his ''American Idol'' contract ended at the close of its season nine. (As long as Cowell's American Idol contract was still in force, it had prohibited him from launching a competing show such as ''The X Factor'' in the U.S.)〔 In September, Fox, the broadcaster of ''American Idol'', signed the deal to launch the U.S. version of ''The X Factor''. On January 11, 2010, News Corporation (via Fox News in the U.S. and ''The Times'' in the UK) reported that Cowell would leave ''American Idol'' after season nine in order to bring ''The X Factor'' to the U.S. in September 2011. Cowell told the Television Critics Association that he was leaving ''American Idol'' so that he could judge and act as executive producer of the U.S. version of ''The X Factor''.〔 Retrieved January 11, 2010.〕 Additionally, Cowell signed a long-term contract with Sony Music, who already supported Syco Music artists in the UK, under which he was involved with the production of the U.S. version of the show and also worked with the artists who won recording contracts.〔 In November 2010, Fox began airing short commercials for the program, which displayed the text "Coming to America Fall 2011".〔 ''The New York Times'' described the commercials as efforts by the network to set up the launch of ''The X Factor'' as a television "event."〔 In February 2011, during Super Bowl XLV, Fox unveiled the official logo for the show in a promo starring Cowell. A second promo was shown during the course of that evening, featuring Katy Perry, Justin Bieber, The Black Eyed Peas, Usher, Lady Gaga, the Pussycat Dolls and Madonna. This promo gave rise to speculation about who would join Cowell on the ''X Factor'' judging panel. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The X Factor (US TV series)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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