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Simon Cowell<\/p>\n

Ian Derry\/FOX<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

With Melanie Amaro<\/a> just crowned this season’s winner, auditions are already underway for next season’s The X Factor<\/em><\/a> \u2013 and contestants and viewers should prepare themselves for a few possible changes. \u00a0<\/p>\n

“Can we make the show better? Yes. I will never ever go into anything going forward unless I can believe I can make it better,” Simon Cowell<\/a>, the show’s producer and judge, told PEOPLE\u00a0Thursday after Amaro had won the $5 million recording contract. “Next year will be a bloodbath. We have to come out with something better than the rest, and that’s what we aim to do.”<\/p>\n

While Cowell was mum on specifics, he said in the next week he plans to sit down back in the U.K. with the X Factor<\/em> brain trust, which will also get input from sponsors and the FOX network before any decisions are made regarding the show in 2012. \u00a0<\/p>\n

There has also been some chatter from critics and fans about the show’s toning down the production numbers, which often distract with the multiple dancers, choirs, lighting and head-spinning backdrops.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

“It’ll be successful if you are open to tweaking things,” said Paula Abdul. “I understand pros and cons of the value of having these big production numbers, but … I am a fan of less is more.”<\/p>\n

A lot is up in the air regarding the talent, too. Will Steve Jones be back as host<\/a>? Will L.A. Reid and Nicole Scherzinger return as mentors and judges?<\/p>\n

The only sure thing for the moment: Abdul told PEOPLE she’ll be back, “unless something weird and bizarre happens.” \u00a0<\/p>\n

Reid also said he’s all set for another go around. “I would love to come back \u2013 what I don’t like is, I love it so much. I don’t control it, it’s up to the boss.”<\/p>\n

Host Jones is also on board if asked to return. “I look forward to working with the judges again,” he says.<\/p>\n

So far, the lone judge ambivalent about returning is Scherzinger<\/a>, who said at a press conference Monday that she found the contestant elimination process emotionally trying and “something I could have never prepared for.”<\/p>\n

During media interviews later in the week, she talked enthusiastically about returning to her recording career next month. The show “took a lot out of me,” she said. “I’m an artist first, not a judge. At the beginning of next year, I’m focusing on my album and going on tour in Europe.” <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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