Britain has dancers and singers! (Britain's Got Talent)

Member Name: dthpsb

Product:	Britain's Got Talent
Date:	16/09/09 (10 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Variety show, entertaining to watch and get to see Simon Cowell

Disadvantages: Can be silly at times, only dancers and singers do well.

Britain's Got Talent is yet another reality show that I seem to watch, I didn't really see much of the first series because I didn't like the concept of a talent show but a year later with nothing else to watch I found myself hooked on yet another reality show. I know they are bad but I just can't help myself and I love Simon Cowell.

Britains's Got Talent has been on ITV is 2007, after the success of Pop Idol and The X Factor Simon Cowell co-created another show but this time it was not just focused around singers. Anyone who thought they had a talent could enter the show, it was basically open to anyone doing anything.

The show is judged by three people; Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden and Piers Morgan, who is also a judge on America's Got Talent. The three judges watch the auditions in front of a live audience and decide who will go through to the next round. While watching the performance they also have the option to press a buzzer which light up a big X, if all judges buzz and the act gets 3 X's then they have to stop.

The show really does get to strange and bizarre acts, it is quite interesting just to see what people class as a talent, some acts are laughable. Even though it is a variety show the majority of successful acts are always singers or dancers, the winners of the last three series have been:
2007- Paul Potts, opera singer (didn't like him as he always sang the same song)
2008- George Sampson, breakdancer
2009- Diversity, group of dancers
So all the previous winners were dancers or singers, and most of the runners up are too. I was glad SuBo didn't win this year, what a crazy reaction to just an average singer, it was all about the way she looked.

After the audition stage being shown on a Saturday Night, BGT then has a final week where the show is on every night. There are forty acts in the final and for five nights eight acts will perform with two going through to Saturday's live final. This is voted for by the public. The act with the most votes goes straight through and the two runners up then have to face the judges as they decide who gets the other place.

On Saturday Night the eight remaining acts will all perform again and a winner will be picked by the public. A chance to perform at the Royal Variety Performance and a cheque for £100,000 is what the winner gets as their prize.

Many of the other acts go on to get work as a result of this show, I was holidaying at Butlins this summer and Aiden Davies and Stavros Flatley were performing. I think that is the type of work they can expect to get.

The show is presented by the lovely Ant and Dec, always good and funny presenters in anything they do.

I do enjoy watching BGT, it is not as good as The X Factor but it gets well over £10 million viewers so somebody out there obviously likes it.
It is a daft show with silly people on it but at the end of the day it does change people's lives.

Summary: Britain has got talent