You know the summer's over when 'X Factor' pops up again on TV, and here for the 14th series the circus that is the show begins again.
We've been promised changes galore by the judges in the press, but at this audition stage apart from the fact that contestants can now sing their own songs, everything seems very much the same.
People will still watch this show, it's become a fixture of Saturday nights, but it is undoubtedly past its peak, and has become a shadow of what it once was.