The X Factor Broadcast Date Announced

iTV's most prized talent show returns for its tenth season later this month- find out the initial broadcast dates now.
iTV Studios have this week announced the broadcast date of the première episode of The X Factor Season Ten. The hit reality talent programme will feature Gary Barlow, Sharon Osbourne, Louis Walsh, Nicole Scherzinger and Simon Cowell on its 2013 judging panel in the final few months of the year.

This time around, though, with the programme having reached ten seasons and having aired on iTV for a decade now, the set-up will be a little different and slightly nostalgic. Live audiences are gone from the audition stages, forcing contestants to re-enter the Closed Room scenarios posed in earlier seasons with a five-on-one audition between the singer and the panel themselves. On top of that, The X Factor will now broadcast on both Saturday and Sunday nights every week, which has inevitably meant that more auditions have been conducted and further time is spent in Boot Camp and at the Judges' Houses.

The X Factor returns to iTV1 on Saturday August 31st.