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Rebecca Ferguson, a former runner-up on The X Factor, has criticized ITV after the UK broadcaster failed to investigate her “traumatic” experience on the Simon Cowell entertainment show. In a series of tweets, the singer published screenshots that appeared to be of an email she sent to ITV CEO…

Britain’s Got Talent is no longer the ratings banker it once was. Simon Cowell’s star format is losing its shine after the latest season bowed out with 5.3M viewers, the lowest-rated finale in the ITV show’s 16-year history. The figure does not include catch-up or online viewing and is perhaps…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of the winner of America's Got Talent: All-Stars. The first season of America’s Got Talent: All-Stars has crowned its winner. Aidan Bryant, the high-flying aerialist, came out victorious as the first winner of the All-Stars edition of the talent…

EXCLUSIVE: Fremantle is planning to once again merge Britain’s Got Talent producer Thames with Talkback under a restructure that will be unveiled in the coming months. Deadline understands plans are being drawn up to consolidate Fremantle’s UK entertainment labels, with the coming together of the two…

Strictly Come Dancing judge Bruno Tonioli has replaced David Walliams on Britain’s Got Talent. In a video circulating on Twitter of a rehearsal, hosts Ant and Dec, who have just signed a three-year ITV contract, introduced Tonioli alongside fellow judges Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden and Alesha Dixon…

EXCLUSIVE: America’s Got Talent: All-Stars is settling in nicely alongside its predecessor at NBC. The premiere episode of the new competition series — which features winners, finalists, fan favorites and viral sensations from previous seasons of America's Got Talent and Got Talent franchises around…

The X Factor may be coming back the U.S. television, as creator and judge Simon Cowell appears to be in talks to revive the singing competition series on NBC. Cowell said that the network had “offered us to make the show” during an interview with The Sun, adding: “Which means we’ll make the show…

Simon Cowell wasn’t always the mean judge character he played on American Idol. Mike Darnell, who shepherded Fox's run at the top of U.S. reality game during the first decade of the 2000s, revealed Cowell is not like the grumpy, unimpressed persona he adopted for American Idol and brought to The X Fac…

David Walliams has apologized for making “disrespectful comments” about Britain’s Got Talent contestants. BGT judge Walliams was caught making the sexually explicit and derogatory remarks during a recording of the ITV show two years ago, according to a transcript leaked to The Guardian. "I would…

Simon Cowell is opening up about reviving The X Factor in the U.S. as he says there are networks interested in bringing back the singing competition. Fox aired the reality show for three seasons in the U.S. between 2011 and 2013. Although its television run was short-lived, Cowell was able to…

The Lord of the Rings franchise can reach the $6B-plus scale of Marvel and Star Wars, according to the man who brokered the sale of the IP to Sweden’s Embracer Group, who revealed new information about the deal. ACF Investment Bank CEO Thomas Dey told Mipcom Cannes Lord of the Rings is one of around…

Simon Cowell’s Syco Entertainment has struck a deal worth $125M for the securitization of the Got Talent franchise. The agreement, billed by advisor ACF as “the first of its kind” and “groundbreaking,” securitizes the intellectual property behind Got Talent, including the U.S., UK and international…