Edited sentence: The Australian franchise of the show is being blamed for a diminished intrest in its counterpart, Australian Idol (the two shows are screened on the same channel in Australia).The failure of last year's Idol winner Casey Donovan, combined with the failure of the winners of The X Factor, Hip Hop group Random, are aslo being blamed.The show had to cut down on audition expendature, notably going to six cities instead of last years nine, pre-empiting that The X Factor might have caused many to lose intrest altogether in going to auditions