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The X Factor won’t air on ITV in the UK this year as Simon Cowell figures out how to breathe new life into his once all-conquering talent show. Cowell recently signed a five-year deal with ITV for Britain’s Got Talent and The X Factor, with the plan being to broadcast a final season of the latter in 2020. But Cowell…

Simon Cowell has put pen to paper on a new five-year deal for Britain’s Got Talent with UK broadcaster ITV. It represents ITV’s longest commitment to the variety show since it launched in 2007 in the UK, and comes as America’s Got Talent is mired in controversy amid an NBC investigation into working conditions. Britain…

Simon Cowell is on the brink of inking a record deal for Britain’s Got Talent, as NBC investigates the workplace culture on the U.S. version of the show, America’s Got Talent. A source said Cowell is in the final stages of talks with ITV over a new five-year agreement for the variety show, which will be the longest…

Simon Cowell is beefing up his legal team amid NBC’s investigation into Gabrielle Union’s complaints of a "toxic" workplace culture at America’s Got Talent. Cowell — who created the series and serves as an executive producer — retained Los Angeles-based litigator Larry Stein late last week, a source close to the…

UPDATE, 3:05 PM: Now both NBC and Gabrielle Union are calling their sit down yesterday over America’s Got Talent “productive,” but it looks like all roads could lead to Simon Cowell. “The initial conversation was candid and productive,” said the network this afternoon after a nearly five-hour meeting on Tuesday about…

EXCLUSIVE: Gabrielle Union is set to sit down with NBC this week over what really happened on America's Got Talent and why she was sacked from the Simon Cowell-created show. The purpose of the meeting is to improve the culture and atmosphere on the competition series, however, and Union will not be returning to AGT…

Former America’s Got Talent judge Howard Stern is blasting the show’s creator and judge Simon Cowell for NBC’s firing of Gabrielle Union and Julianne Hough from the competition series, bluntly stating that Cowell “orchestrated” the explosive situation. Stern, after admitting he has never heard of Union, addressed the…

Turns out Dwyane Wade knows how to shut down the opposition off the court as well as he did back in his Miami Heat days. In an emotional and no-holds-barred series of social media posts, the NBA legend eviscerated the recent departure (aka he’s says “fired”) of his spouse Gabrielle Union from America's Got Talent and…

For a second year in a row, NBC is shaking up the judging panel on summer juggernaut America’s Got Talent. Sources confirm to Deadline that new judges Gabrielle Union and Julianne Hough won’t be returning next summer. Set to come back as judges are AGT staples, Simon Cowell, who is also the show’s creator and…

Simon Cowell is preparing a new version of The X Factor featuring bands to rival a BBC format starring British pop stars Little Mix. The music impresario is set to launch The X Factor: The Band, a spin-off of the long-running ITV series that will aim to search for all-male and all-female groups. The series will be…

AXS TV has revealed that it will premiere the 16th season of the UK version of The X Factor on October 14 at 8PM — and this year it will have a celebrity twist. The X Factor: Celebrity, made by Syco Entertainment and Fremantle-owned Thames Television for ITV, will feature stars including Ricki Lake, Glee's Kevin McHale…

NBC's America's Got Talent: The Champions will launches its second winter season with singer Alesha Dixon replacing ex-judge Mel B, the network revealed today via a video magic trick by season 1 winner Shin Lim. Watch the video above. Dixon, arriving from Britain’s Got Talent, will join the returning panel of judges Si…