Four hours of The X Factor final? No thanks

There are times in television when big definitely doesn't mean better.

Much as I quite enjoy The X Factor, I wasn't thrilled at today's news that the final will be played out over FOUR hours.

For goodness sake, there will only be three acts competing, so how much can they really pad it out?

And it's taking place at Wembley Arena, which Strictly Come Dancing recently did first and made a huge fuss about.

As far as I was concerned, it was a fuss over nothing as the show wasn't that exciting.

The arena - not Wembley Stadium, despite all the footballing analogies - was really too big for the dancers, who couldn't use all the vast floor.

I reckon some of the atmosphere will be lost when the X Factor tries to fill that cavernous space.

And I don't know why the dancing celebs kept talking about what an amazing, once in a lifetime opportunity it was, either. Most of them will be back at Wembley in January on the Strictly live tour.