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''Britain's Got Talent'' (often shortened to ''BGT'') is a British television talent show competition which started in June 2007 and originated from the ''Got Talent'' franchise. The show is a Thames production (formerly Talkback Thames) distributed by FremantleMedia and is produced in association with Syco TV. The show is broadcast on ITV and its sister show ''Britain's Got More Talent'' is broadcast on ITV2. Anyone of any age with some sort of talent can audition for the show. Acts compete against each other in order to gain the audience support while trying to win the title of "The winner of ''Britain's Got Talent'. The original judging panel consisted of the show's creator Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden and Piers Morgan. Kelly Brook was brought in as a fourth judge in series 3, but was axed after one audition site. Morgan did not return for series 5 and Cowell was only present during the live shows, while David Hasselhoff and Michael McIntyre joined the panel. Alesha Dixon and David Walliams joined the panel in series 6 as replacements for McIntyre and Hasselhoff. Throughout the show, contestants must perform in front of the judges, and each year initial auditions have been held in front of a live audience. Auditions precede live semi-finals, where the final 45 contestants (24 in series 1, 40 in series 2–5) perform nightly for a week in order to impress the British public. Each night, two acts from each semi-final (the act with the most votes and another chosen by the judges from the acts in second and third place) progress to the live final which takes place on the Saturday of the following week (the same week in series 1–6). There have been nine winners to date: Paul Potts, George Sampson, Diversity, Spelbound, Jai McDowall, Ashleigh and Pudsey, Attraction, Collabro and Jules O'Dwyer & Matisse. The winner of each series is given the opportunity to perform at the Royal Variety Performance in front of members of the British Royal Family, including either Queen Elizabeth II or the Prince of Wales, and also receives a cash prize of £250,000 (£100,000 in series 1–5, £500,000 in series 6). ''Britain's Got Talent'' is Britain's biggest television talent competition (ahead of ''The X Factor'' and The Voice UK) and has also proven popular throughout Europe. The series 3 live final brought in 17.3 million viewers, a 64.6% audience share. On 15 November 2013, it was announced that a new deal had been signed to keep ''Britain's Got Talent'' on air until 2016. ==History== The show's format was devised by ''The X Factor'' creator and Sony Music executive Simon Cowell, who has created many ''Got Talent'' series across the globe. A pilot episode was filmed in September 2005,〔 with the judging panel consisting of Cowell, then-''This Morning'' presenter Fern Britton, and tabloid journalist Piers Morgan. It was originally planned that the show would be broadcast in 2006 and presented by Paul O'Grady (who had become popular thanks to his teatime chat show, ''The Paul O'Grady Show'') with the title ''Paul O'Grady's Got Talent''. However, after defection to Channel 4 for ''The Paul O'Grady Show'', he refused to appear on another ITV show, so the show was put on hold. The pilot remained unbroadcast on television until it was shown during ''The Talent Show Story'' in January 2012.〔 In a 2010 interview, O'Grady said, "I did the pilot for ''Britain's Got Talent'' – which was originally going to be called ''Paul O'Grady's Got Talent''. But I told the producers they were having a joke if they thought I would front a show with that title. The original panel of judges was going to be Simon Cowell, Fern Britton and Piers Morgan. I was the host. Then when I had the row with ITV I was banned from the studios. I remember I rang Simon and told him he had a huge hit on his hands, but there was no way I could do it. I said, if I am banned I have to be banned from everything. I can’t be a hypocrite and come in and do this. I had to bow out." On 12 February 2007, following the success of ''America's Got Talent'' the previous year, it was announced that the show would air in June 2007 with Cowell, Morgan (who had also judged ''America's Got Talent'') and actress Amanda Holden as judges. Ant & Dec were announced as presenters, with Stephen Mulhern as the presenter of ITV2 spin-off series ''Britain's Got More Talent''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Britain's Got Talent」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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