Monday, 20 June 2011

Americas got talent


America’s Got Talent also known as AGT. An American reality television series NBC
and part of the global British Got Talent series. A talent show that features dancers,
comedians, magicians, and other performers of all ages competing for the advertised top
prize of US$1 million. The show started in June 2006 for the summer season. Starting
in the third season, the Talent top prize included US$1 million, payable in a financial
annuity over forty years or the present cash value of such annuity, and a show as the
headliner on the Las Vegas Strip.
For its significance feature it provides chance to talented amateurs or unknown
performers, with the results decided by an audience vote. The format is a popular one
and has often been reworked for television in the United States and the United Kingdom.
In June 2006, NBC announced the new show. The audition tour took place in June
in the locations: Los Angeles, California, New York City, New York, Chicago, Illinois,
and Atlanta, Georgia. Some early ads for the show implied that the winning act
would also headline a show at a casino, possibly in Las Vegas; however, this was
replaced with $1,000,000 due to concerns of minors playing in Las Vegas, should one
become a champion. Over 12 million viewers see the season premiere which is more
than American Idol got during its premiere back in 2002. On the season finale, there was
an unaired segment that was to appear after Aly and AJ.
In 2009, America’s Got Talent Live performance on Las Vegas Strip appearing From
Wednesday to Sunday at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, in
a limited 10-week run starting in October, 2009 through January of the next year. It
featured the final ten acts which made it to the Season 4 Finale. Former host of Talent,
Jerry Springer, emceed, commuting weekly between Stamford, Connecticut tapings of
his self-named show and Las Vegas.
In 2010, on the first live show of the fifth season, host Nick Cannon announced that
the winner would headline America’s Got Talent Live from Caesar’s Palace Casino and
Resort on the Las Vegas Strip and be part of a tour that features the season’s finalists.

Jerry Springer will return as both host of the tour and the headline show.

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