HitFix's Daniel Fienberg live-blogs the Thursday, October 6 episode of FOX's The X Factor, featuring the second night of Boot Camp and possibly the reveal of the season's Top 32. http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/the-fien-print/posts/recap-the-x-factor-boot-cam more

"The X Factor" began its "boot camp" round Wednesday night (Oct. 5) with 162 acts having made it through the audition round. By the time Thursday's episode ends, the show will have cut that field down to 32.Zap2it attended the taping of the final boot cam more

Last night, ‘ X Factor ’ just about redeemed itself. Let’s go ahead and pretend that the 20 minute time-suck that was the cattle call dance, glorified haircut Steve Jones' voiceovers, and whip-quick one-note auditions with non-sequitur judge responses at more

After last week, auditions ended on “The X-Factor,” and all of the finalists made their way to Los Angeles for “boot camp.” What this means is that all of the singers were divided into groups, and each group was given a song to perform. In the meantime, j more

THE X FACTOR  (US) “Bootcamp #1? Episode 5 – So bootcamp has begun. Of course my first question was: “What the Hell is bootcamp?” Held in Los Angeles  (where else?), the first  day brought 162 acts and left us with 100. Of the 62 more

As Simon might say, I am "uttah-ly" confused as to how to recap last night's episode of  The X Factor , which featured 162 acts beginning "boot camp." It was pretty much a 90-minute visual representation of ADD, with names and faces and flails and te more

Tonight two hundred contestants, or 162 acts, face  The X Factor  bootcamp. I'll wait for all the oohs and aahs to subside.  As Steve Jones warned us last week, "it gets serious." Was it not serious before?  These two hundred contestan more

All right, X Factor fans! Straighten your bed, shine your boots, and make sure your haircut is regulation... it’s time for boot camp! DUN DUN DUN!“162 acts face the toughest week of their lives,” Steve tells us. And we believe him, because we see footage more