Overview
- Sky bills the project as a definitive series exploring the era-defining ITV talent show.
- Interviews will involve people on and off camera, with Simon Cowell explicitly confirmed.
- 72 Films is producing the series, with credits including The Zelensky Story and 9/11: One Day in America.
- The X Factor ran for 15 series from 2004 to 2018 and helped launch One Direction, Little Mix, JLS and Leona Lewis.
- Viewers are already voicing mixed reactions about revisiting the show and the idea of a revival.