America's Got Talent

As a huge fan of Britain's Got Talent, I thought I really should check out the equivalent show from over the Atlantic, very cleverly titled America's Got Talent and I have to say that largely speaking I am glad I did. This is not because America has more talent, more that because America has more odd ball contestants. Firstly, the similarities of the two shows are very obvious in the fact that they are talent shows that aim to find the best talent at that point in the country. The subtle difference comes in the prices really. In Britain's Got Talent the prize is £100,000 and the honour of performing at the Royal Variety Show later that year, whereas in the ...  Read the complete review

America's Got Talent is a television talent show shown on NBC in the United States and on ITV2 in The United Kingdom. It is a throwback to the talent shows of the 1970s and 1980s when any type of variety act is given a shot at stardom. The eventual winner is said to pocket a cool One Million Dollars. Acts that I have seen on the show have included singers, comedians, musicians, jugglers, impressionists, ballet dancers, dance troupes, gospel choirs, basketball demonstration teams, martial artists, ventriloquists, acrobats, strongmen, yodelers, whistlers, animal trainers, magicians, a pogo stick performer, sword swallowers, mime artists and beat ...  Read the complete review

I do really enjoy the show britains got talent, and so when I saw this program playing on itv2 I just couldn't resist watching it to see if it was quite as good as the English version of it. The shows concept is basically the same as the british one, in that people go on the show and show off their talents in order to win, however the main difference is that the show doesn't have the chance to perform at the royal variety performance if you win, which I thinks a bit rubbish any way. Instead the winner of the show get a massive 1 million dollars which I thinks a bigger incentive to win rather than just getting 100 000 pounds and getting to perform in front of ...  Read the complete review

WHAT IS IT ABOUT: This US talent show sees members of the public showing off a variety of skills for the chance to win a cool one million dollar prize-fund. Simon Cowell owns and produces the show, but the judges are Piers Morgan, David Hasselhoff and Sharon Osbourne. Any type of performance is allowed, although the focus tends to be on singing, dancing, comedy and magic. IS IT ANY GOOD: It has become an almost 100% occurance that any review of a US show that is also created in the UK admits that the Americans are doing it better, and this show is no different. You may have enjoyed watching 'Britain's Got Talent', but this program takes performance ...  Read the complete review

Having succumbed to the trashiness that is the 'X Factor/Britain's Got Talent' type of programme I decided to watch America's Got Talent last week. This was the first episode of the 2nd series and I have to say that I did really enjoy it. For a start it was longer than our shows (we all know that America likes to do things BIG), and it was focussed on the auditions, as of course the first few episodes of these shows always are. The winners of the auditions get to go to the callbacks in Las Vegas, on their way to winning the prize of a cool $1 million. How I'd love to win that kind of money. Some of the acts were good but some were appalling - my least favourite was the ...  Read the complete review