X Factor Slovakia

X Factor Česko a Slovensko is a Czech and Slovak reality television music competition created by Simon Cowell and produced by FremantleMedia, on TV Prima and TV JOJ. Based on the original UK show, and an addition to the X Factor franchise, the series finds new singing talent (solo artists and groups ages 12 and over), drawn from public auditions, and they compete against each other for votes. The winner is determined by the show's viewers SMS text voting, and is awarded a recording contract, worth 200.000 €.

The X Factor
GenreReality television
Created bySimon Cowell (uncredited)
Creative directors
  • Jeffo Minařík (2014–)
Presented by
  • Martin "Pyco" Rausch
Judges
Country of originCzech Republic, Slovakia
Original languagesCzech language, Slovak language
No. of seasons1
Production
Executive producers
  • Simon Cowell (uncredited)
  • Cecile Frot-Coutaz
  • Siobhan Greene
  • Richard Holloway
  • Andrew Llinares
  • Rob Wade[1]
Production locations
Running time60–150 minutes
Production companies
DistributorFremantleMedia Enterprises
Release
Original networkTV Prima, TV JOJ
Picture format
Original release2014 (2014) 
present
Chronology
Related shows
  • The X Factor (TV series)
External links
Website

The original judging consisted of Celeste Buckingham, Ondřej Brzobohatý, Sisa Sklovská and Oto Klempíř and Martin "Pyco" Rausch as hosts.

Casting was announced in December in the Czech Republic. Prima family serves as the broadcaster for Czech viewers and TV JOJ for Slovaks.

Series overview

To date, three seasons have been broadcast, as summarized below.

  Contestant in (or mentor of) "Boys" category
  Contestant in (or mentor of) "Girls" category
  Contestant in (or mentor of) "Over 28s" category
  Contestant in (or mentor of) "Groups" category

Season Start Finish Winner Runner-up Third place Winning mentor Main host(s) Main judges
One March 9, 2014 May 25, 2014 Peter Bažík Ricco & Claudia Tibor Gyurcsík Sisa Sklovská Martin "Pyco" Rausch Celeste Buckingham
Ondřej Brzobohatý
Sisa Sklovská
Oto Klempíř

Judges' categories and their finalists

In each season, each judge is allocated a category to mentor and chooses three acts to progress to the live shows. This table shows, for each season, which category each judge was allocated and which acts he or she put through to the live shows.

Key:

  – Winning judge/category. Winners are in bold, eliminated contestants in small font.
Season Celeste Buckingham Ondřej Brzobohatý Sisa Sklovská Oto Klempíř
One Boys
Tibor Gyurcsík
Matěj Vávra
Girls
Katarína Ščevlíková
Marina Laduda
Over 28s
Peter Bažík
Brigita Szelidová
Groups
Ricco & Claudia
The Joy$

References

  1. The X Factor Press Release Archived December 15, 2011, at the Wayback Machine Fox Broadcasting Company. Retrieved June 24, 2011
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