Local versions of The X Factor are now produced in more than 41 territories and artists discovered by The X Factorformat have sold more than 100 million records worldwide, including 110 No 1's, 270 Top 10 records, and 501 Top 50 releases.
Fuller sued Cowell for copyright infringement, over claims The X Factor copied the format of Fuller's show, Pop Idol - the original forerunner to American Idol - which was screened in the UK from 2001 to 2003.
Increasingly, it's beginning to look as though, after the initial attraction of high-definition's much sharper picture, interactivity is going to be the deciding factor that determines the outcome of the current format war.