KK wrote:X-Factor is basically Pop Idol/American Idol, is it not?
It is, but the format has major differences. The main one is it allows groups.
It also has boot camp, judges houses, judges training the acts, a different elimination structure and quite a lot of other things. What may seem like a very similar format is actually quite different from Pop Idol. The groups alone makes it a very different show.
The difficulty is I don't know where they take a relatively simple baking show to make it a DIFFERENT baking show in the eyes of format law. I have no doubt we will see a food competition format from the BBC though, but you can't just simply make Bake Off with a different name, that is not how it works. Be under no illusions, Channel 4 didn't just spend £75million for Paul Hollywood and a tent.