Got Talent series
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The Got Talent franchise is a British TV format
TV format
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 conceived and owned by Simon Cowell
Simon Cowell
Simon Phillip Cowell is an English A&R executive, television producer, entrepreneur, and television personality. He is known in the United Kingdom and United States for his role as a talent judge on TV shows such as Pop Idol, The X Factor, Britain's Got Talent and American Idol...

's SYCOtv company. A pilot show was made in Britain, hosted by Paul O'Grady
Paul O'Grady
Paul James Michael O'Grady MBE is an English comedian, television presenter, actor, writer and radio DJ. He is best known for presenting the daytime chat television series, The Paul O'Grady Show and, more recently, Paul O'Grady Live, as well as his drag queen comedic alter ego, Lily Savage, as...

, but after O'Grady's split with ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...

, the series was postponed, resulting in
America's Got Talent
America's Got Talent
America's Got Talent is an American reality television series on the NBC television network, and part of the global British Got Talent franchise. It is a talent show that features singers, dancers, magicians, comedians, and other performers of all ages competing for the advertised top prize of...

- the first full series of the format. It has spawned spin-offs
Spin-off (media)
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 in 39 countries, in what is now referred to as the
Got Talent format, similar to that described by FremantleMedia
FremantleMedia
FremantleMedia, Ltd. is the content and production division of Bertelsmann's RTL Group, Europe's second largest TV, radio, and production company...

 of the Idol format
Idol series
The British talent search television series Pop Idol has spawned spin-offs in 42 territories, in what is now referred to as the "Idols" format, as described by FremantleMedia...

.

The
Got Talent franchise is one of the fastest growing international franchises, closing the gap on other successful franchises such as The Weakest Link
The Weakest Link
The Weakest Link is a television game show which first appeared in the United Kingdom on BBC Two on 14 August 2000 and will end its run in 2012 when its host Anne Robinson ends her contract. The original British version of the show airs around the world on BBC Entertainment...

,The X Factor
The X Factor (TV series)
The X Factor is a television talent show franchise originating in the United Kingdom, where it was devised as a replacement for Pop Idol. It is a singing competition, now held in various countries, which pits contestants against each other. These contestants are aspiring pop singers drawn from...

, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, Dancing with the Stars
Dancing with the Stars
Dancing with the Stars is the name of several international television series based on the format of the British TV series Strictly Come Dancing, which is distributed by BBC Worldwide – the commercial arm of the BBC. Currently the format has been licensed to over 35 countries...

and Idol
Idol series
The British talent search television series Pop Idol has spawned spin-offs in 42 territories, in what is now referred to as the "Idols" format, as described by FremantleMedia...

franchises, all of which also originated in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

.

Original series

The
Got Talent franchise was a British invention, with comedian and talk show host Paul O'Grady
Paul O'Grady
Paul James Michael O'Grady MBE is an English comedian, television presenter, actor, writer and radio DJ. He is best known for presenting the daytime chat television series, The Paul O'Grady Show and, more recently, Paul O'Grady Live, as well as his drag queen comedic alter ego, Lily Savage, as...

 producing a pilot for ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...

. O'Grady left the network after disputes with ITV, resulting in Simon Cowell
Simon Cowell
Simon Phillip Cowell is an English A&R executive, television producer, entrepreneur, and television personality. He is known in the United Kingdom and United States for his role as a talent judge on TV shows such as Pop Idol, The X Factor, Britain's Got Talent and American Idol...

, creator of the show, moving the concept to America while he and ITV searched for a new show host.

Due to these issues, the
Got Talent franchise ended up debuting first on the NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

 network in the United States
United States
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 on 21 June 2006, with judges David Hasselhoff
David Hasselhoff
David Michael Hasselhoff is an American actor, singer, producer and businessman. He is best known for his lead roles as Michael Knight in the popular 1980s US series Knight Rider and as L.A. County Lifeguard Mitch Buchannon in the series Baywatch...

, Brandy Norwood
Brandy Norwood
Brandy Rayana Norwood , known professionally as Brandy, is an American singer-songwriter, producer, actress, and dancer. In 2009, she introduced her rap alter-ego Bran'Nu....

, and Piers Morgan
Piers Morgan
Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan , known professionally as Piers Morgan, is a British journalist and television presenter. He is editorial director of First News, a national newspaper for children....

. The show's original series was hosted by Regis Philbin
Regis Philbin
Regis Francis Xavier Philbin is an American media personality, actor and singer, known for hosting talk and game shows since the 1960s. Philbin is often called "the hardest working man in show business" and holds the Guinness World Record for the most time spent in front of a television camera...

. Most recently, the judging panel consists of Howie Mandel
Howie Mandel
Howard Michael "Howie" Mandel is a Canadian stand-up comedian, television host, and actor. He is well known as host of the NBC game show Deal or No Deal, as well as the show's daytime and Canadian-English counterparts. Before his career as a game show host, Mandel was best known for his role on...

, Sharon Osbourne
Sharon Osbourne
Sharon Rachel Osbourne is an English television host, author, music manager, businesswoman and promoter as well as the wife of heavy metal singer-songwriter Ozzy Osbourne....

, along with Morgan, and is hosted by Nick Cannon
Nick Cannon
Nicholas Scott "Nick" Cannon is an American actor, comedian, rapper, entrepreneur, record producer, radio, and television personality. On television, Cannon began as a teenage sketch comedian on All That before going on to host The Nick Cannon Show, Wild 'N Out, and America's Got Talent...

. The grand prize on
America's Got Talent is $1 million, and, since season 3, a chance to headline a show on the Las Vegas Strip
Las Vegas Strip
The Las Vegas Strip is an approximately stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard in Clark County, Nevada; adjacent to, but outside the city limits of Las Vegas proper. The Strip lies within the unincorporated townships of Paradise and Winchester...

.
America's Got Talent proved extremely successful for NBC, pulling in high ratings in both total viewers and the younger 18-49 demographic. The show's initial success in America is credited with the eventual launch of the British series, and the overall global launch of the Got Talent franchise.

ITV eventually debuted
Britain's Got Talent
Britain's Got Talent
Britain's Got Talent is a British television talent show competition which started in June 2007 and originated from the Got Talent series. The show is produced by FremantleMedia's TalkbackThames and Simon Cowell's production company SYCOtv. The show is broadcast on ITV in Britain and TV3 in Ireland...

on 9 June 2007 with Cowell, Morgan and Amanda Holden
Amanda Holden
Amanda Louise Holden is an English actress and presenter. Among her roles are Mia Bevan in Cutting It, Sarah Trevanion in Wild at Heart, and the title role in Thoroughly Modern Millie, for which she was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Theatre Award...

 as judges, and Ant & Dec
Ant & Dec
Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly , known collectively as Ant & Dec, are an English comedy and TV presenting duo from Newcastle upon Tyne, England...

 as hosts of the show. Morgan stepped down after series 4 due to commitments hosting
Piers Morgan Tonight
Piers Morgan Tonight
Piers Morgan Tonight is a talk show on CNN, hosted by Piers Morgan. The show premiered on January 17, 2011 and filled the former Larry King Live timeslot. The theme music is written by Anthony James, composer and CEO of British company Music Candy, and his writing partner Yiorgos Bellapaisiotis,...

on CNN
CNN
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. For series 5, Cowell only attended the live shows as he was busy launching
The X Factor
The X Factor (U.S.)
The X Factor is an American television music competition to find new singing talent. The show is produced by creator Simon Cowell's company SYCOtv. It premiered on September 21, 2011 on Fox....

in America, so Michael McIntyre
Michael McIntyre
Michael Hazen James McIntyre is an English stand-up comedian. He is well known for appearing at many British stand-up comedy events and for several roles on television stand-up programmes such as Live at the Apollo and his own show, Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow...

 and David Hasselhoff
David Hasselhoff
David Michael Hasselhoff is an American actor, singer, producer and businessman. He is best known for his lead roles as Michael Knight in the popular 1980s US series Knight Rider and as L.A. County Lifeguard Mitch Buchannon in the series Baywatch...

 joined the panel with Holden. McIntyre confirmed that he would not return for The top prize is at least £100,000, and a performance at the Royal Variety Show in front Queen Elizabeth II, and Prince Charles.

Got Talent around the world

Country Name Channel Premier Host Judges Season /Winners
 Albania Albanians Got Talent
Albanians Got Talent
Albanians Got Talent is an Albanian-Event. Albanian's Got Talent is the new name of "Ti Vlen", an Talent-Albanian show that was stopped in 2009. Albanians got Talent has started on October 15, 2010. The judges of Albanians Got Talent are Altin Basha, Rovena Dilo and Armend Rexhepagiqi...

Top Channel
Top Channel
Top Channel is a commercial television station with national frequency coverage in Tirana, Albania founded by media mogul Dritan Hoxha, and part of Top Media Group. Since September 2003, Top Channel became present on satellite broadcasting all over Europe through DigitAlb, and North America through...

25 August 2010 Albana Osmani and Benet Kaci
Benet Kaci
Benet Kaci is an Kosovan media personality, journalist, occasional singer known for hosting talk shows from the 2000 to the present. His career in show business began when he started working in RTK. His first television hosting job was on RTKSound, a music program...

Altin Basha
Rovena Dilo
Armend Rexhepagiqi
Season 1, 2010-2011: Fiqiri Luli
  Arab world
Arab world
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Arabs Got Talent MBC 4
MBC 4
MBC 4 is the first free-to-air national television channel in the Middle East aired specifically for American programs. The downside of this all is that MBC 2, MBC 3, MBC 4, MBC Action, MBC Max,and MBC Drama all show movies and TV programs that are edited: taking out all drug use, sexual content,...

14 January 2011 Raya Abi Rached
Raya Abirached
Raya Abirached is a Lebanese British TV presenter and producer based in London.She is well known in the Middle East as the host of hit show Arabs Got Talent, the Arab version of America's Got Talent, and for being the first Arabic journalist to...

 & 
Qusai Kheder
Qusai (musician)
Qusai Kheder , known by the stage names Qusai and Qusai aka Don Legend the Kamelion, is a Saudi Arabian rapper, singer/songwriter, record producer, television personality, and DJ...

Najwa Karam
Najwa Karam
Najwa Karam is a Multi-Platinum, Best-Selling Lebanese Arab recording artist and Philanthropist. Najwa, widely known for her Mawwal and other musical talents, has surpassed musical and political limits in building her Empire, as she has effectively helped change the Arabic music industry in its...


Amr Adeeb
Ali Jaber
Season 1, 2011: Amr Qatamesh (Stand Up Satirical Poetry)
 Argentina Talento Argentino
Talento Argentino
Talento Argentino is a program of television show, in Telefé channel led by Mariano Peluffo. It is based on English TV format Got Talent, which takes place simultaneously in other countries such as Britain's Got Talent in Great Britain, America's Got Talent in the United States or Got Talent, the...

Telefe
Telefe
Televisión Federal S.A., best known as Telefe and later as TLF, is an Argentine television network. Formerly known as Canal Once , a state-run network, it was privatised and established as Telefe in 1989, when and News Corporation took over the channel...

27 July 2008 Mariano Pelufo Cesar 'Kike' Teruel
Maximiliano Guerra
Catherine Fulop
Catherine Fulop
Catherine Amanda Fulop García is a Venezuelan actress, model and television presenter with both Venezuelan and Argentine citizenship. She participated in the Miss Venezuela 1986, finishing as the fourth runner–up...


Season 1, 2008: Martin Bustos (Humorian Imitation)

Season 2, 2009: Daniel Ferreyra (Guitarist)
 Armenia Hidden Talent>Թաքնված տաղանդ ShantTV
Shanttv
- Armenian Television company Shant TV, founded in Gyumry - the second largest city of Armenia, in 1994, and moved to Yerevan in 2001 where it started regular broadcasting...

2009 Grigor Aghakhanyan Nikolai Tsaturyan (2008)
Violet Grigoryan
Artyom Forums
Sergei Danielian

Season 1, 2009: Samvel Davtyan(Singer)

Season 2, 2010: Samvel Harutyunyan(Singer)
 Australia Australia's Got Talent
Australia's Got Talent
Australia's Got Talent is an Australian reality television talent show which premiered on 18 February 2007 on the Seven Network. The show was based on the Got Talent series format that originated in the United Kingdom with Simon Cowell...

Seven Network
Seven Network
The Seven Network is an Australian television network owned by Seven West Media Limited. It dates back to 4 November 1956, when the first stations on the VHF7 frequency were established in Melbourne and Sydney.It is currently the second largest network in the country in terms of population reach...

18 February 2007 Grant Denyer
Grant Denyer
Grant Denyer is an Australian television reporter, personality and motor racing driver.-Television career:In 1997, Denyer began his career in the media, he gained a position at Prime Television in Wagga Wagga as a news reporter and journalist...

Dannii Minogue
Dannii Minogue
Danielle Jane "Dannii" Minogue is an Australian singer-songwriter, actress, television personality, radio personality, fashion designer and model...


Brian McFadden
Brian McFadden
Brian Nicholas McFadden , is an Irish singer-songwriter who rose to fame in the late 1990s as a member of the Irish boyband Westlife...

 (2010–present)
Kyle Sandilands
Kyle Sandilands
Kyle Dalton Sandilands is an Australian radio and TV personality. He is currently the host with Jacqueline Henderson, better known as Jackie O, on the weekday morning radio program The Kyle and Jackie O Show on Sydney radio station 2Day FM, The Kyle and Jackie O Hour of Power which airs on...

 (2010–present)
Red Symons
Red Symons
Redmond Symons is an Australian musician, writer, actor and radio host, probably best known as lead guitarist with Skyhooks and as the snide judge of "Red Faces", a segment of the long-running Hey Hey It's Saturday variety television show...

 (2007–09)
Tom Burlinson
Tom Burlinson
Tom Burlinson is an Australian actor and singer.He attended Pittwater High School on Sydney's Northern Beaches and was the School Captain in his final year...

 (2007–09)

Season 1, 2007: Bonnie Anderson (Singer)

Season 2, 2008: "Smokin" Joe Robinson (Guitarist)

Season 3, 2009: Mark Vincent
Mark Vincent
Mark Vincent is an Australian pop opera singer. Vincent won Australia's Got Talent on 22 April 2009. His main inspiration is his late grandfather, Bruno, who raised him and taught him how to sing. Vincent has said that he would like to follow in the footsteps of his idol Anthony Warlow...

 (15-year-old-opera singer)

Season 4, 2010: Justice Crew
Justice Crew
Justice Crew are an all-male hip-hop dance and pop music group based in Sydney. They are most notable for winning the fourth season of Australia's Got Talent in 2010. The group consists of Emmanuel Rodriguez, Samson Smith, Len John Ruela Pearce, John Len Ruela Pearce, Lukas Bellesini, Paulie...

 (Dance Troupe)

Season 5, 2011: Jack Vidgen
Jack Vidgen
Jack Vidgen is an Australian singer, best known for winning the fifth season of Australia's Got Talent. He subsequently signed a recording contract with Sony Music Australia. His debut single, "Yes I Am", was released for digital download on 3 August 2011...

 (14-year-old singer)

Season 6, 2012: in progress
 Belgium Supertalent in Vlaanderen VT4
VT4
VT4 is a Flemish commercial television channel. It is part of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG.The channel began broadcasting on 1 February 1995. The channel initially had no Belgian broadcasting license and was transmitted via London . The channel now broadcasts legally from Zaventem in Belgium...

15 March 2007 Dré Steemans
Dré Steemans
Dré Steemans was a Belgian tv and radio host.-Career:Steemans debuted on 1 September 1985 in the radioshow Het Genootschap of Luk Saffloer, in which he started using his alter ego Felice Damiano...


Ann van Elsen
Ann Van Elsen
Ann Van Elsen is a model and TV personality from Mol, Antwerp in Belgium. She was crowned Miss Belgium in 2002.- Biography :...

Paul Jambers
Martine Prenen
Gert Verhulst

Season 1, 2007: Triple E(Sister's Trio)
 Kingdom of Bulgaria България търси талант
Balgariya tarsi talant
Bulgaria's Got Talent
Bulgaria Searches for a Talent is the Bulgarian version of the Got Talent series. The original title of the show in Bulgarian language is "България търси талант" . It launched on bTV on 1 March 2010. Singers, dancers, comedians, variety acts, and other performers compete against each other for...

bTV 1 March 2010 Mariya Ignatova
Alexandra Raeva
Hilda Kazasian
Luben Dilov - son
Magardich Halvadjian

Season 1, 2010: Bogdana Petrova (Singer)
 Canada Canada's Got Talent
Canada's Got Talent
Canada's Got Talent will be a Canadian reality television series set to debut on the Citytv television network in March 2012, and part of the global British Got Talent franchise ....

Citytv
Citytv
Citytv is a Canadian English language television system owned and operated by Rogers Communications under its Rogers Broadcasting Ltd. division...

Spring 2012 Dina Pugliese
Dina Pugliese
Dina Pugliese is an Canadian television personality, currently the co-host of Citytv Toronto's Breakfast Television. She joined the show in 2006, replacing Liza Fromer....

Martin Short
Martin Short
Martin Hayter Short, CM is a Canadian actor, comedian, writer, singer and producer. He is best-known for his comedy work, particularly on the TV programs SCTV and Saturday Night Live...


Measha Brueggergosman
Measha Brueggergosman
Measha Brueggergosman is a Canadian soprano who performs both as an opera singer and concert artist. She has performed internationally and won numerous awards...


Stephan Moccio
Stephan Moccio
Stephan Moccio is a pianist, composer, producer, arranger, conductor and recording artist. He co-wrote Celine Dion's 2002 hit "A New Day Has Come" with Aldo Nova, which reached and held the number one spot on the Billboard AC Chart for a record breaking 21 weeks...


Season 1, 2012: Upcoming Season
 Chile Talento Chileno Chilevisión
Chilevisión
CHV, also known as Chilevisión, is the third oldest television station in Chile. Formerly called Teleonce and RTU , this TV station was owned by University of Chile, a Chilean state university...

27 September 2010 Julián Elfenbein
Julián Elfenbein
Eduardo Julián Elfenbein Kaufmann better known as Julián Elfenbein is a Chilean journalist, radio broadcaster and television presenter.-Career:...

 (2010)
Rafael Araneda
Rafael Araneda
Rafael Luis Domingo Araneda Maturana is a popular Chilean TV presenter, best known for his participation in the show Rojo Fama Contrafama as the host. Also he was the host of Estrellas en el Hielo, Sin Prejuicios, Rojo VIP, Noche de Juegos, El Baile en TVN...

 (2011–)
Rodrigo Díaz
Francisca García-Huidobro
Antonio Vodanovic

Season 1, 2010: Camila Silva (Singer)

Season 2, 2011:
Upcoming Season
 Mainland China 中国达人秀
China's Got Talent
China's Got Talent
China's Got Talent is a British-owned Chinese reality television series on Dragon TV and a part of the Got Talent franchise, hosted by Cheng Lei. It is a talent show that features all different kinds of performances of all ages competing for performing contract with Fremantle Media and Sony Music...

DragonTV
DragonTV
Shanghai Dragon Television or Dragon TV is a provincial satellite TV station. It launch in October 1998 as 'Shanghai Television' but changed its name to Dragon Television on October 23, 2003...


Xing Kong
Xing Kong
Xing Kong is a Mandarin language TV channel owned by STAR TV, also known as STAR Chinese Channel China, It was voted "Satellite Channel of the Year" at the 2002 China Television Programme Awards. The channel is packed with more than 700 hours of original programming each year, with content that...

25 July 2010 Cheng Lei
Cheng Lei
Cheng Lei is a television host.Cheng Lei was a student in Shanghai Theater Academy at the 90s. After graduation,he was chosen as a host for Broken Brain by Shanghainese producer, Xiao Chen. He also worked on several interviews.Cheng's family has a long history of liver disease...

Zhou Libo
Zhou Libo
Zhou Libo is a Chinese stand-up comedian. On December 1, 2006, he made his first special performance in Anfu Road, Shanghai. In late 2008, Zhou Libo create his own stand-up comedy called "Shanghai Style Small Talk" which includes A Laughable Talk on the Past 30 Years and A Laughable Talk in Big...

 (2010-)
Gao Xiaosong
Gao Xiaosong
Gao Xiaosong is a Chinese composer, songwriter, music producer and director, "Campus Folk" representative.-Career:1969 Born into a family of senior intellectuals1988 Graduated from Beijing No.4 High School...

 (2010–2011)
Annie Yi (2010-)
Jerry Huang(2011-)

Season 1, 2010: Liu Wei
Liu Wei (pianist)
Liu Wei is a Chinese disabled pianist from Beijing who won the first series of China's Got Talent at the age of 23 by playing the piano with his toes.-The accident:...

 (Armless pianist)

Season 2, 2011: Zhuo Jun (popper)

Season 3, 2011: Upcoming Season
 Independent State of Croatia Supertalent
Supertalent
Supertalent is a talent show that is a Croatian license version of the British popular talent show Got Talent whose authors are Simon Cowell and Ken Warwick....

Nova TV 25 September 2009 Rene Bitorajac
Rene Bitorajac
Rene Bitorajac is a Croatian actor. He appeared in a number of Croatian and Bosnian films since the 1980s. Most notably, he starred in the 2001 Academy Award-winning Bosnian film No Man's Land...


Igor Mešin
Nina Badrić
Nina Badric
Nina Badrić is a Croatian pop singer. Before starting her career in the entertainment industry she used to be a bank teller. She began performing in early 1990s, exploiting the sudden popularity of dance music, but her repertoire gradually became more mainstream...


Enis Bešlagić
Enis Bešlagic
Enis Bešlagić is an actor and TV personality from Bosnia and Herzegovina.- External links :...


Dubravko Merlić
Dubravko Merlić
Dubravko Merlić is a Croatian television journalist, producer and author, known for his work as a reporter, editor and anchor on Croatian national television...


Season 1, 2009: Tihomir Bendelja (gymnastic twirling)

Season 2, 2010: Viktorija Novosel
Viktorija Novosel
Viktorija Novosel is a Croatian singer. She rose to fame as the winner of the second season of Supertalent.-References:...

 (singer)

Season 3, 2011 : Current season
  Czechia
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

&
 Slovakia
Česko Slovensko má talent   TV JOJ
TV JOJ
-About TV JOJ:It was launched on 2 March 2002 as a successor of the TV Global, which was broadcasting since March 2000. TV Joj was built by former head of Czech Republic channel TV Nova, Vladimír Železný, when he was at war with TV Nova’s U.S. investor Central European Media Enterprises...


  TV Prima
TV Prima
TV Prima is a Czech private television station. Its channel is broadcast from Prague. Its current owner is FTV Prima, spol. s r. o., general manager Marek Singer....

29 August 2010 Martin "Pyco" Rausch
Jakub Prachař
Jan Kraus (2010)
Lucie Bílá
Lucie Bílá
Lucie Bílá is a Czech pop singer. With a powerful, distinctively intense voice and impressive range, she is one of the most famous and celebrated female artists in Czech Republic history...

 (2010–present)
Jaro Slávik (2010–present)
Martin Dejdar
Martin Dejdar
Martin Dejdar is a Czech actor and entertainer. He is the voice of Bart Simpson on the Czech dub of The Simpsons.-References:...

 (2011–present)

Season 1, 2010: DaeMen (Hand to Hand Acrobatics)
Season 2, 2011:   Atai Omurzakov (Dancer) Kyrgyzstan
 Denmark Talent DR1
DR1
DR1 is a Danish national television channel, produced by the public service broadcaster, DR. It was the first television station to be established in Denmark, and began broadcasting in 1951 – at first only for an hour a day three times a week....

15 August 2008 Felix Schmidt
Mikkel Herforth (2008)
Martin Hall
Martin Hall
Martin Hall is the head coach of Halifax. He took over the head coach job from sacked coach Anthony Farrell in June 2006. Hall previously played at Halifax and Wigan...

 (2008)
Peter Aalbæk Jensen
Peter Aalbæk Jensen
Peter Aalbæk Jensen is a Danish film producer who in 1992 with director Lars von Trier founded the Danish film company Zentropa and later its huge studio complex Filmbyen....

 (2008)
Julie Steincke (2008)
Jesper Dahl
Hella Joof
Hella Joof
Hella Joof is a Danish actress and director. She was born to a Danish mother and a Gambian father.Joof directed En kort en lang , Oh Happy Day and Fidibus and is considered one of Denmark's more important directors...


Nikolaj Koppel
Season 1, 2008: Robot Boys (Robot Dancing Duo)
Season 2, 2009: Kalle Pimp (Rap)

Season 3, 2010: Copenhagen Drummers (Military drummers)
 Estonia Eesti talent
Eesti talent
Eesti Talent is the Estonian version of the Got Talent series. It was launched on TV3 on October 9, 2010. Singers, dancers, comedians, variety acts, and other performers compete against each other for audience support. The winner of the show receives 250 000 kroons . It is hosted by singers...

TV3
TV3 (Estonia)
TV3 is a commercial television channel targeted at an Estonian language audience owned by Viasat . It was founded in 1996 after two recent television stations, EVTV and RTV joined....

9 October 2010 Eda-Ines Etti
Eda-Ines Etti
Eda-Ines Etti is a singer and celebrity in Estonia, also known for her participation in the Eurovision Song Contest 2000. Under her abbreviated stage name Ines, she was Estonia's representative for the contest in Sweden. Her song "Once in a Lifetime" received fourth place in the contest...


Tanel Padar
Tanel Padar
Tanel Padar is an Estonian singer. He is best known for winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2001. Padar became famous by winning the Kaks takti ette, a biennial televised competition for young Estonian singers, in 1999...

Kristiina Heinmets-Aigro
Valdo Randpere
Valdo Randpere
Valdo Randpere is an Estonian musician and businessman.He graduated from University of Tartu with Law degree in 1982 ....


Mihkel Raud

Season 1, 2010-11: Erki-Andres Nuut (Leaf Pill Player)
 Finland Talent Suomi Nelonen
Nelonen
Nelonen is a Finnish commercial TV channel. It started out as Helsinki's local television channel PTV in 1989 on the HTV cable network, which name was changed first to PTV4 and then to Nelonen. It started on June 1, 1997. Nelonen, in Finnish, means the glyph of the number four. The channel is...

1 October 2007 Susanna Laine (2007)
Martti Vannas (2007)
Jarkko Valtee (2009-)
Osku Heiskanen (2009-)
Timo Koivusalo
Timo Koivusalo
Timo Johannes Koivusalo is a Finnish actor, director, writer, columnist, composer and musician. His most successful film to date was Työnnän syvälle kammioon, which debuted in the movie theaters in 2001....

 (2007)
Sami Saikkonen
Katja Ståhl
Jaana Saarinen
Jaana Saarinen
Jaana E. Saarinen is a Finnish actress. She is famous for the Finnish soap opera Salatut elämät, where she played Maarit Salin from 1999 to 2004 and 2007 to 2008. For 25 years, Saarinen was involved with the Kotka City Theatre from 1981 to 2006. She took part in the very first Thilia Thalia...

 (2009-)

Season 1, 2007: Aleksi Vähäpassi (Beatbox)

Season 2, 2009: Miikka Mäkelä (pantomim dance)

Season 3, 2011: VIP Bartenders (Flair bartenders
Flair bartending
Flair bartending is the practice of bartenders entertaining guests, clientele or audiences with the manipulation of bar tools and liquor bottles in tricky, dazzling ways. Used occasionally in cocktail bars, the action requires skills commonly associated with jugglers...

)
 Early Modern France Incroyable Talent
Incroyable Talent
La France a un incroyable talent , previously known as Incroyable Talent is a French television programme, based on the Got Talent series. It debuted on M6 on 2 November 2006, created by Alessandra Sublet....

M6 (2006-2011) 6 November 2006 Alessandra Sublet (2006–2008) Jean Piere Den Bois (2006)
Sophie Edelstein (2006–2008-2010-)
Gilbert Rozon (2006-)
Patrick Dupont (2007–2008)
Smaïn
Smaïn
Smaïn is a French comedian, humorist, writer, actor and director of Algerian descent.-External links:...

 (2009)
Valérie Stroh (2009)
Dave
Dave (singer)
Dave is the stage name of Wouter Otto Levenbach , a Francophone singer from the Netherlands who had a string of number one hits in France in the 1970s. Despite his great success, he is still virtually unknown in his country of origin.-Biography:His father was Jewish and a professor of English by...

 (2010-)

Season 1, 2006: Salah Benlemqawanssa (Popper/B-boy)

Season 2, 2007: Junior (break dancer)

Season 3, 2008: Alex (fire artist)

Season 4, 2009: Les Echos-liés (comic group)

Season 5, 2010: Axel and Alizee (young dancing duo)

Season 6, 2011 : Current Season

Season 7, 2012 :in progress
La France a un incroyable talent Sandrine Corman
Sandrine Corman
Sandrine Corman was Miss Belgium 1997 and represented her country at Miss World 1997 and Miss Universe 1998....

 (2009-)
Alex Goude
Alex Goude
Alex Goude is a French journalist, television host, author and actor.-Career:He was a former footballer. He started as a journalist in video games including le Journal de Mickey, for which he is still working....

 (2009-)
 Germany Das Supertalent
Das Supertalent
Das Supertalent is the German talent show and part of the internationally successful Got Talent franchise, presented by Marco Schreyl, who was joined by Daniel Hartwich from the second season onwards...

RTL Television
RTL Television
Rtl.de' redirects here. For other uses, see RTL.RTL Television , or simply RTL, is a German commercial television station distributed via cable and satellite along with DVB-T , in larger population centres...

20 October 2007 Marco Schreyl
Marco Schreyl
Marco Schreyl is a German television and radio host.- Television career :In 1997, Schreyl began his television host career at MDR television...


Daniel Hartwich (2008-)
Dieter Bohlen
Dieter Bohlen
Dieter Günter Bohlen is a German songwriter, singer, musician, producer, entertainer, TV personality, and writer. Bohlen is best known for being part of popular pop-duo Modern Talking during 1984–1987 and 1998–2003.-Biography:Bohlen took his Abitur in Oldenburg...


Ruth Moschner
Ruth Moschner
Ruth Isabel Moschner is a German TV presenter and comedian. She was a judge in the first season of Das Supertalent, the German version of Britain's Got Talent, but was replaced by Sylvie van der Vaart in the second season. She also appeared in Big Brother Germany and the comedy show Freitag Nacht...

 (2007)
André Sarrasani (2007)
Sylvie van der Vaart (2008-)
Bruce Darnell
Bruce Darnell
Bruce Darnell is an American model and choreographer based in Germany.Darnell was born in New York City and grew up in Colorado. After studying sociology, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and served six years as a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division.In 1983 he began his career as a model in...

 (2008-2010)
Motsi Mabuse (2011-)

Season 1, 2007: Ricardo Marinello (singer)

Season 2, 2008: Michael Hirte (harmonica players)

Season 3, 2009: Yvo Antoni & Primadonna (dog training)

Season 4, 2010: Freddy Sahin-Scholl
Freddy Sahin-Scholl
Freddy Sahin-Scholl is a German-American-Turkish singer and composer. In addition to his real name he is known by the stage name Galileo.-Life and career:...

 (two-voice singer)

Season 5, 2011: Upcoming Season
 Greece Ελλάδα Έχεις Ταλέντο
Ellada Eheis Talento
Ellada Eheis Talento
Greece, You Have Talent is a Greek reality television series on the ANT1 television network and is part of the Got Talent multinational franchise. It has been one of the most successful Greek TV shows over the last five years. It is a talent show that features singers, dancers, magicians,...

ANT1
ANT1
Antenna, better known as ANT1, is a television network airing in Greece and Cyprus. The alternate spelling is play on words in Greek; ena is the Greek number 1, thus ANT1 is pronounced the same as Antenna . It launched on 31 December 1989, the same year as rival Mega Channel, and is owned by...

23 March 2007 Sophia Aliberti
Sophia Aliberti
Sophia Aliberti is a Greek talk show and game show host since 2004, television actress, and former fashion model.-Filmography:*Ta Tsakalia: Ena koinoniko provlima, 1981 .... Athina Fotiadou*Garsoniera gia deka 1981...

 (2007)
Christos Ferentinos (2009–)
Ilias Psinakis (2007-)
Matthildi Maggira (2007–09)
Vaggelis Perris (2007-)
Eugenia Manolidou (2010-)
Season 1, 2007: Christos Zacharopoulos
Christos Zacharopoulos
Christos Zacharopoulos was the winner of the first season of Greece Got Talent.-References:...

 (Singer)

Season 2, 2009: Kiss Madiam
Kiss Madiam
Kiss Madiam is a four-piece male band that won the second season of Greece, You Have Talent .Kiss Madiam take popular songs and change the lyrics to something funny, essentially satirising. Some of their songs are "Dolce Gabbana" and "Diakopes" ....

 (Band)

Season 3, 2010: Nikos Georgeas (Singer)

Season 4, 2012: Upcoming Season
 Hungary Csillag Születik
Csillag Születik
Csillag Születik is the Hungarian version of the Got Talent series. The title of the show after translation to English means A star is born. It launched on RTL Klub on October 20, 2007. Singers, dancers, comedians, variety acts, and other performers compete against each other for audience support...

RTL Klub
RTL Klub
RTL Klub is a television station owned by RTL Group and broadcast in Hungary. It was one of Hungary's first commercial TV channels and was only two days after the main rival TV2 to begin broadcasting.-About RTL Klub:...

20 October 2007 Stohl András (2007–2009)
Ördög Nóra
Nagy Sándor (2011-)
Fábry Sándor (2007)
Falusi Mariann (2007)
Náray Tamás (2007)
Keleti Andrea (2007)
Oroszlán Szonja
Fáy Miklós
Hernádi Judit
Szirtes Tamás
Season 1, 2007: Utasi Árpád (Comedian)
Season 2, 2009: Tabáni István (Singer)
Season 3, 2011: Upcoming Season
 India India's Got Talent
India's Got Talent
India's Got Talent is the Indian franchise of the Got Talent series, and is a cooperative effort between India's TV channel Colors and Britain's FremantleMedia. The first episode of India's Got Talent premiered on June 27, 2009. India's Got Talent follows the global Got Talent format, in which...

Colors 27 June 2009 Nikhil Chinappa
Ayushmann Khurrana
Ayushmann Khurrana
Ayushmann Khurrana : Former Radio Jockey and now a Video Jockey and Television Anchor and soon to become Actor, Ayushmann Khurrana began as a contestant of the reality show MTV Roadies Season 2 which catapulted him to fame and he moved on to become a VJ on MTV as well as anchoring popular shows and...


Roshni Chopra
Roshni Chopra
Roshni Chopra is an Indian actress, television presenter and the winner of NDTV Imagine's reality show, Dil Jeetegi Desi Girl.She is known for playing the role of Pia, the younger sister of protagonist Bani Walia in Ekta Kapoor's Kasamh Se on Zee TV. She was also the presenter of the pre and...


Meiyang Chang
Gautam Rode
Gautam Rode
Gautam Rode also known as Gautam Rhode is an Indian actor and a former model, working in the Hindi Film Industry and TV serials.-Career:...

  present hosts
Shekhar Kapur
Shekhar Kapur
Shekhar Kapur is an Indian film director and producer. A critically acclaimed director, he rose to popularity with the movie Bandit Queen...

 (2009)
Sajid Khan
Sajid Khan
Sajid Khan is a former Indian actor. He is the adopted son of Indian film producer Mehboob Khan, founder of Mehboob Studios, in India.-Career:...

 (2010)
Sonali Bendre
Sonali Bendre
Sonali Bendre is an Indian actress and model. She has mostly starred in Bollywood films but has acted in many Telugu films as well as a number of Marathi, Tamil and Kannada films. She was also one of the four judges in the fourth season of Indian Idol and India's Got Talent...


Kirron Kher
Kirron Kher
Kirron Kher is an Indian theatre, film and television actress and a TV talk show host.- Early life :Kirron Kher was born in Bangalore in a JatSikh family of Punjabi background. She was brought up in Chandigarh, Punjab, where she did her schooling and later college from Panjab University, Chandigarh...


Dharmendra Singh Deol
Season 1, 2009: Prince Dance Group
Prince Dance Group
Prince Dance Group, a dance troupe based in Berhampur, Orissa, India led by T. Krishna Mohan Reddy. It has won a reality show India's Got Talent on an Indian TV channel "Colors" Colors . The group is unique that the members are from a remote part of India and most of them are from disadvantaged...



Season 2, 2010: Shillong Chamber Choir
Shillong Chamber Choir
Shillong Chamber Choir is an Indian chamber choir based in Shillong; founded in 2001, it shot to fame after it won the a reality talent show, India's Got Talent in October 2010, on Colors TV, part of the Got Talent franchise, where it performed western chorals, as well as choral-style revamps of...



Season 3, 2011: Suresh and Vernon Group
 Indonesia Indonesia's Got Talent
Indonesia's Got Talent
Indonesia's Got Talent is an Indonesian talent variety showed on Indosiar that began July 23, 2010. It is based on the Got Talent franchise, a British TV format conceived and owned by Simon Cowell's SYCO company...

Indosiar
Indosiar
Indosiar is a publicly owned national television station in Indonesia, and has been operating from West Jakarta since 1994. It was listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange in 2004. Citibank Singapore has an 8.5 percent shareholding...

23 July 2010 Tora Sudiro
Tora Sudiro
Tora Sudiro is an Indonesian actor. His popular TV comedy show, Extravaganza, is broadcast by Trans TV. He has also appeared in Indonesian TV dramas such as 2006's Dunia Tanpa Koma...

 
Vincent Rompies
Vina Panduwinata 
Anjasmara 
Ria Irawan
Season 1, 2010: Vania Larissa (15-year-old Opera Singer)
Season 2, 2011: Upcoming Season
 Israel הדבר הגדול הבא
HaDavar HaGadol HaBa
Israel's Got Talent
Israel's Got Talent was an Israeli television show, based on the formula of Britain's Got Talent. The show was first aired in 2007. The show was originally called הדבר הגדול הבא in Hebrew. The show was presented by Noa Tishby. Rules of the show were nearly the same as the original British ones...

Channel 2
Channel 2 (Israel)
Channel 2 is an Israeli commercial television channel.- History :In 1990, after 13 years of deliberations, the Knesset passed a law that paved the way for the establishment of commercial television in Israel. The goal was to enhance pluralism and create competition. Channel 2 began broadcasting on...

 (Reshet
Reshet
thumb|right|"Reshet" logoReshet is one of the two concessionaires running the Israeli commercial television channel, Arutz 2 since 1993. Reshet is considered one of the most successful television networks in Israel....

)
26 June 2007 Noa Tishby
Noa Tishby
Noa Tohar Tishby is an Israeli actress, producer, model and singer, currently residing in Los Angeles, California, in the United States.-Career:In her homeland of Israel, Noa Tishby’s name is well known...

Motty Reif
Yael Bar Zohar
Yael Bar Zohar
Yael Bar Zohar is an Israeli actress, model and television host.-Biography:Bar Zohar was born in Tel Aviv. She started her modeling career in a bathing suits catalogue and a commercial at the age of 15. She was cast for a role in the popular soap opera Ramat Aviv Gimmel . She then turned to...


Yehoram Gaon
Yehoram Gaon
Yehoram Gaon is a Jewish Israeli singer, actor, director, producer, TV and radio host, and public figure...

Season 1, 2007: Keren Elnekave and Yaniv Swissa (Aerial acrobatics)
 Italy Italia's Got Talent
Italia's Got Talent
Italia's Got Talent is the Italian version of the international Got Talent series. The pilot episode was aired on December 12, 2009 on Canale 5. In that episode Carmen Masola's talent, now known throughout the world, was discovered. The first episode was seen by 5,3 million people.After this...

Canale 5
Canale 5
Canale 5 is an Italian private television network of Mediaset, the media branch of Fininvest. Canale 5 was the first private television network to have a national coverage in Italy in 1980, based on a local channel, TeleMilano 58, founded in 1978....

12 December 2009 Simone Annichiarico
Geppi Cucciari
Gerry Scotti
Gerry Scotti
Gerry Scotti is an Italian television presenter, actor and former member of the Italian Parliament.Scotti was born Virginio Scotti on August 7, 1956 in Miradolo Terme, Pavia. After giving up studying law Scotti began his career as a disc jockey at Radio Milano International...


Maria De Filippi
Maria De Filippi
Maria De Filippi is an Italian television host. She is one of the most popular Italian presenters in the Italian television.-Biography and Career:...


Rudy Zerbi
Season 1, 2010: Carmen Masola (Opera Singer)
Season 2, 2011: Fabrizio Vendramin (painter)
 Lithuania Lietuvos talentai TV3 Lithuania
TV3 Lithuania
TV3 is a television channel owned by Modern Times Group and targeted at a Lithuanian-speaking audience. It was founded on May 7, 1992 and launched on April 11, 1993 as "Tele-3" before being renamed "TV3" in 1996....

27 September 2009 Mindaugas Stasiulis
Džiugas Siaurusaitis
Current
Marijonas Mikutavičius
Marijonas Mikutavicius
Marijonas Mikutavičius is a popular Lithuanian singer, musician and songwriter, a television journalist, a comedian and a talk show host from Vilnius...

 
Rūta Ščiogolevaitė
Rūta Ščiogolevaitė
Rūta Ščiogolevaitė is a Lithuanian singer. She took 2nd place in the national selection for Eurovision in 2004 and in 2007. She also judged music talent competitions on LNK and TV3.- Biography :...

 
Vytautas Šapranauskas (2011-present)
Former
Adolfas Večerskis
Adolfas Vecerskis
Adolfas Večerskis , is a Lithuanian movie and stage actor, director and translator. He began his career in films, but later chose to play mainly on the stage. Večerskis, his wife Viola, and their younger daughter Juta live in Vilnius, where he is the General Director of the Lithuanian National...

 (2009-2010)
Season 1, 2009: Mikas (Play teeth)
Season 2, 2010: Martynas (Playing Accordion)
Season 3, 2011: Current season
 Luxembourg Wanns de eppes kanns! RTL Télé Lëtzebuerg
RTL Télé Lëtzebuerg
RTL Télé Lëtzebuerg is the main television channel in Luxembourg, broadcasting in Luxembourgish.The small television market in Luxembourg led to a unique system in Europe: Luxembourg remains the only country in the world to run television stations in both the PAL and SECAM formats. Originally, both...

28 February 2009 Sylvia Camarda
Pierre Dillenburg
Gérard Valerius (2008)
Gast Waltzing
Gast Waltzing
Gaston Waltzing is a Luxembourg trumpeter and composer. He has created several jazz bands including Largo and the Luxembourg National Jazz Orchestra and has composed music for films and television programmes as well as operas combining classical music with jazz and rock.-Biography:Born in...

 (2009)
Season 1, 2011: Upcoming Season
 Mexico Mexicos Got Talent
Mexicos Got Talent
Mexicos Got Talent is a Mexican television show on Canal de las Estrellas. The show is part of the "Got Talent series", presented by Aimee Garcia. Acts include singers, dancers, comedians, variety acts, and other performers who compete against each other for the audience's support...

XEW
XEW-TV
XEW-TV is the call sign assigned to channel 2, a television station in Mexico City, Mexico. The station is owned by Televisa and is the flagship station to the Canal de las Estrellas network. XEW is second oldest Televisa and Mexico City's station, founded in 1951.-References:...

12 February 2010 Aimee Garcia Roberto Levermann
Roberto Levermann
Roberto Levermann is a Mexican actor and writer. Born in Mexico City, Mexico, he began his acting career in 1993 on Mexico City's theatrical stages, from that year to 2000 he performed in over 15 plays, some of them where written by himself....


Lorena Herrera
Lorena Herrera
Lorena Herrera is a Mexican actress.- Biography :Lorena moved with her family to Mexico City, where she began a career as a fashion model. She became highly successful in Mexico, and gained an international reputation, posing for advertiments in Mexico and South America...


Irán Castillo
Irán Castillo
Irán Castillo Pinzón is a Mexican actress, TV Host and singer. who reach the fame in the 1990s, after roles in successful telenovelas such as Agujetas de color de rosa, Confidente de Secundaria, Preciosa...


Season 1, 2010: Jamie Maughan, Football Legend
Season 2, 2011: Upcoming Season
 Netherlands Holland's Got Talent SBS 6 (2008–2009)
RTL 4
RTL 4
RTL 4 is a commercial television station in the Netherlands. It is the most-watched commercial station in the country, popular especially with those aged between 20 and 49. The station has three sister tv channels: RTL 5, RTL 7 and RTL 8...

 (2010–present)
28 March 2008 Gerard Joling
Gerard Joling
Gerard Jan Joling is a Dutch singer and television presenter. Known for his high tenor voice, he rose to fame in the late 80's and released a string of singles including "Ticket to the Tropics", "Love is in your Eyes", and his biggest hit, "No more boleros", a song that reached the top 10 in...

 (2008–2009)
Robert ten Brink
Robert ten Brink
Robert ten Brink is a Dutch presenter and actor.He won the Golden TeleVizier-Ring in 1993 for All you need is love reality-TV.In 1997, he was chosen as Holland's most popular personality....

 (2010–present)
Current
Gordon Heuckeroth
Gordon Heuckeroth
Cornelis Willem Heuckeroth is a Dutch performer and radio and television personality, better known by his nickname Gordon...


Patricia Paay
Patricia Paay
Patricia Anglaia Margareth Paaij , best known as Patricia Paay, is a Dutch singer, radio host, glamour model and television personality. In the Netherlands, she is well known for her musical career, which spans over four decades...


Dan Karaty
Dan Karaty
Daniel Quinten Karaty , an American TV personality, producer, dancer and choreographer. He has performed with and/or created routines for pop superstars such as Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears, Kylie Minogue, and *NSYNC...



Former
Henkjan Smits (2008–2009)
Robert Ronday (2008–2009)

Season 1, 2008: Daniëlle Bubberman (Contortionist)

Season 2, 2009: Tessa Kersten (Guitarist/Singer)

Season 3, 2010: Martin Hurkens (Opera Singer)

Season 4, 2011: Aliyah Kolf (Singer)

Season 5, 2012: Upcoming season
 New Zealand New Zealand's Got Talent
New Zealand's Got Talent
New Zealand's Got Talent was a New Zealand reality television show which premiered on 8 September 2008 on Prime Television New Zealand, New Zealand. The show is based on the Got Talent series format that originated with America's Got Talent and Britain's Got Talent...

Prime Television
Prime Television
PRIME7 is an Australian television network owned by Prime Media Group Limited. Prime Television launched on 17 March 1962 as CBN/CWN in Orange and Dubbo, New South Wales, and has since expanded to cover regional New South Wales, Victoria and the Australian Capital Territory as a Seven Network...

8 September 2008 Andrew Mulligan
Andrew Mulligan
Andrew Mulligan is a New Zealand television presenter. He co-hosts on Sky Television's PRIME TV channel at 6:30pm weekdays, The Crowd Goes Wild, with former New Zealand test cricketer Mark Richardson...


Jason Reev es
Miriama Smith
Miriama Smith
Miriama Te Rangimarie Smith is a New Zealand film and television actress who has played roles in various TV shows such as Xena: Warrior Princess, Karaoke High and Shortland Street...


Paul Ellis
Paul Ellis
Paul B. Ellis MNZM is a New Zealand record producer, manager, and radio host. He is most known to audiences for being the former judge of New Zealand Idol and the current judge of the reality series New Zealand's Got Talent....


Richard Driver
Richard Driver
Richard Driver was a Sydney solicitor, politician and cricket administrator.Driver was born in Cabramatta, New South Wales, son of Richard Driver, hotel-keeper, and his wife Elizabeth, née Powell...


Season 1, 2008: Chaz Cumming (Music Group)
 Norway Norske Talenter
Norske Talenter
Norske Talenter is a Norwegian talent show with the same format as Britain's Got Talent. 16-year old singer Erlend Bratland won the first series and hip hop dance group Quick won the second series. Judges are music producer Jan Fredrik Karlsen, singer and actress Mia Gundersen and comedian/actor...

TV 2
TV 2 (Norway)
TV 2 is the largest commercial television station in Norway. Over 30% of the time Norwegians spend watching TV is spent watching TV 2. The station has 65% of the market for TV commercials in Norway....

22 February 2008 Marte Stokstad
Sturla Berg-Johansen
Sturla Berg-Johansen
Sturla Berg-Johansen is a Norwegian stand-up comedian, imitator, actor and television host.He grew up in Tønsberg where he started his acting at Tønsberg Amateur Theater. He worked at a traveling agency at the end of the 1980s, and he was, among other things, in charge of entertainment for...

 (2008)
Pia Lykke (2009)
Jan Fredrik Karlsen
Jan Fredrik Karlsen
Jan Fredrik Karlsen is a Norwegian artist manager and television personality.Karlsen has worked in the Norwegian music industry since his late teens working for popular Norwegian comedians/singer/songwriters Herodes Falsk and Tom Mathisen...

 (2008–2009)
Thomas Giertsen
Thomas Giertsen
Thomas Giertsen is a Norwegian producer, stand-up comedian and actor from Oslo.He runs a production company named Feelgood Scene, Film & TV...

(2008–2010)
Mia Gundersen(2008-)
Alex Rosén (2010-)
Adil Khan
Adil Khan
Adil Khan is a Norwegian dancer and actor of Punjabi/Pashtun descent. Adil came to the limelight when he won Dansefeber,...

 (2011-)

Season 1, 2008: Erlend Bratland (16-year-old singer)

Season 2, 2009: Quick (hip-hop dancer)

Season 3, 2010: Kristian Rønning (Rapper)
 Philippines Pilipinas Got Talent
Pilipinas Got Talent
Pilipinas Got Talent is a Philippine talent show on ABS-CBN that began February 20, 2010. It is based on the Got Talent franchise, a British TV format conceived and owned by Simon Cowell's SYCO company. "Pilipinas" is the Filipino word for Philippines. Anyone can join and showcase their talents...

ABS-CBN
ABS-CBN
ABS–CBN Corporation is a Philippine-based media conglomerate. It is the Philippines' largest media and entertainment conglomerate. The corporation was the merger of Alto Broadcasting System which at that time owned by James Lindenberg and Antonio Quirino, and the Chronicle Broadcasting Network ...

20 February 2010 Billy Crawford
Billy Crawford
Billy Joe Crawford is a Filipino-American recording artist, singer-songwriter and philanthropist.Crawford is a Bilingual Filipino Singer. His second language is English and he is conversational in French. Crawford not only lived in New York City, USA, but also in Paris for five years and for one...


Luis Manzano
Luis Manzano
Luis Philippe S. Manzano , also known by his nickname Lucky, is a Filipino actor, TV host, VJ and model. He is the son of award-winning actors Edu Manzano and Vilma Santos, from whom he inherited his Chinese features.Manzano started his career as a commercial model for clothing brand, HUMAN...

Freddie M. Garcia
Kris Aquino
Kris Aquino
Kristina Bernadette Cojuangco Aquino , commonly known as Kris Aquino, is a Filipino television and movie personality who gained prominence from her talk shows, game shows, and numerous endorsements. Known as the Queen of All Media and Philippines' Queen of Talk, she is the youngest daughter of...


Ai-Ai Delas Alas

Season 1, 2010: Jovit Baldivino (16-year-old singer)

Season 2, 2011: Marcelito Pomoy
Marcelito Pomoy
Marcelito Pomoy is a male singer from Imus, Cavite. He is the grand winner of Pilipinas Got Talent .-Early Life:Marcelito Pomoy, 27, was born on the 22nd of September, 1984 in Bislig, Surigao del Sur, and hails from Imus, Cavite....

 (25-year-old Falsetto singer)

Season 3, 2011: Maasinhon Trio (Singing Trio)
 Poland Mam talent!
Mam talent!
Mam talent! is the Polish version of the Got Talent series. The aim of the program is to choose the most talented person from people showing their talents. The winner of the show in the first series got €100,000, in the second and third series - 300,000 zlotys...

TVN
TVN (Poland)
TVN is a major Polish commercial television network. The broadcaster was co-founded by Polish businessmen Mariusz Walter and Jan Wejchert. The network launched on October 3, 1997. TVN belongs to the TVN S.A...

13 September 2008 Marcin Prokop
Marcin Prokop
Marcin Prokop is a Polish journalist, television and radio personality, connected with TVN, TVN Turbo and Radio Zet. On TVN he currently presents morning show Dzień Dobry TVN in duo with Dorota Wellman, Poland's Got Talent in duo with Szymon Hołownia and game show Minute To Win It. On TVN Turbo he...


Szymon Hołownia
Current
Małgorzata Foremniak
Agnieszka Chylińska
Agnieszka Chylinska
Agnieszka Chylińska is a Polish rock singer and columnist.From 1994 until 2003 Chylińska was the vocalist with Polish rock band O.N.A.. She has also been one of the judges in the Polish edition of the Got Talent franchise Mam talent!. She founded a band called Chylińska , which released the album...


Robert Kozyra
Robert Kozyra
Robert Tadeusz Kozyra between 1995 and 2009 was the program director and then from 2000 to 2009 executive of Radio Zet. In 2008 he founded radio Chilli Zet. In 2011 he was announced as judge on the fourth series of Poland's Got Talent where he replaced Kuba Wojewódzki.- References :...



Former
Kuba Wojewódzki
Kuba Wojewódzki
Jakub Władysław Wojewódzki known as Kuba Wojewódzki is a Polish journalist, TV personality, drummer, and comedian.-Career:Wojewódzki was a judge on the Polish Idol. He also was the Polish representative on the World Idol on 25 December 2003....

 (2008–2010)

Season 1, 2008: Mellkart Ball (duo acrobatics)

Season 2, 2009: Marcin Wyrostek (accordion's player)

Season 3, 2010
Mam talent! (series 3)
The third series of Mam talent! premiered on Saturday, September 4, 2010 at 20:00 on TVN. It consisted of seven auditions' episodes, five semi-finals and the final, which aired on November 27, 2010. The winner of the competition was Magda Welc, 11-year old singer and she gained 300 000 PLN. The...

: Magdalena Welc (12-year-old singer)

Season 4, 2011
Mam talent! (series 4)
The fourth series of Mam talent! began airing on TVN on 3 September 2011 and ended on 26 November 2011. The winner of the show was Kacper Sikora, who received PLN 300,000. Małgorzata Foremniak and Agnieszka Chylińska returned as judges. They were joined by a new judge, Robert Kozyra. He replaced...

: Kacper Sikora (19-year old singer)

Season 5, 2012: Upcoming Season
 Portugal Aqui Há Talento
Aqui há talento
Aqui há talento was the older Portuguese version of the Got Talent series. It launched on RTP1 on February 1, 2007. Singers, dancers, comedians, variety acts, and other performers competed against each other for a €10,000 money prize. It was hosted by Sílvia Alberto. The judges were Joaquim...

RTP1 28 January 2007 Sílvia Alberto Joaquim Monchique
Sílvia Rizzo
Paulo Dias
Season 1, 2007: Abstractin' (Breakdance)
Portugal Tem Talento
Portugal Tem Talento
Portugal Tem Talento is the actual Portuguese version of the Got Talent series and spiritual successor to the older version "Aqui Há Talento" . It debuted on SIC on January 30, 2011. Singers, dancers, comedians, variety acts, and other performers are competing for the prize of €100,000. It is...

SIC 30 January 2011 Bárbara Guimarães Conceição Lino
José Diogo Quintela
Ricardo Pais
Season 1, 2011: Filipe Santos (Beatbox)
 Kingdom of Romania Românii au talent PRO TV
Pro TV
Launched in December 1995, Pro TV reaches almost 99% of Romania’s 21.5 million people and has 48% of its broadcast schedule comprising locally-produced programs...

18 February 2011 Smiley
Pavel Bartos
Andra
Mihai Petre
Andi Moisescu
Season 1, 2011: Adrian Ţuţu (rapper)

Season 2 - 2012: Upcoming Season
 Russia Minuta slavy
Minuta slavy
"Minute of Fame" is talent show, where any person can show off their unique abilities. Premiered on February 17 2007 and the Channel...

Channel 1 17 February 2007 Alexander Oleshko 
Yuliya Kovalchuk
Leonid Parfyonov
Leonid Parfyonov
Leonid Gennadievich Parfyonov is a Russian news anchor, journalist and an author of some popular TV shows. From December 3, 2004 until December 20, 2007 he was an Editor-in-Chief of the Russian edition of Newsweek....


Alexander Maslyakov
Alexander Maslyakov
Alexander Vasilyevich Maslyakov is a prominent Soviet and Russian television game show host. He is an extremely well known, iconographic figure throughout the former USSR, having been on the screen for the greater part of most people's lives...


Renata Litvinova
Renata Litvinova
Renata Muratovna Litvinova is a Russian actress, director, and screenwriter. She was born to a Russian mother and a Tatar father...



Season 1, 2007: Maxim Tokayev (musician)

Season 2, 2008: Dimitry Bulkin a.k.a. Dima Shine (gymnastics parade)

Season 3, 2009: Grace (ensemble)

Season 4, 2010: Brothers of Grinchenko (Acrobats)

Season 5, 2011:Viktor Kochkin and Danil Anastasin (brekdansers without legs)

Season 6, 2011: Upcoming Season
 Serbia Ја имам таленат /
Ja imam talenat
Ja imam talenat
Ja imam talenat! is a Serbian television series, format of Got Talent series...

RTV Pink
RTV Pink
RTV Pink or Radio-Television Pink is a popular, privately-owned, national TV network in Serbia. Pink is the leading commercial station in the Serbian television broadcast market. TV Pink has gained a strong reputation for its entertainment programming...

 (first season)
RTS (second season)
21 September 2009 Ivana Bajić
Vladimir Aleksić
Ivan Tasovac
Aleksandar Milić Mili
Danica Maksimović
Season 1, 2009: Danijel, Darko and Sandra Piler (young music trio)

Season 2, 2011: Milica Dokić and Nenad Mahmutović(Deaf dancers)

Season 3, 2011 : Current season
 Slovakia Slovensko má talent Markíza
Markíza
Markíza is a television station in Slovakia. The station launched on 31 August 1996. The station was owned by the politician Pavol Rusko, and is now part of CME network...

21 September 2008 Maroš Kramár
Barbora Rakovská
Jan Kraus
Adela Banášová
Palo Habera
Season 1, 2008: Old School Brothers (hip-hop breakers)
 Slovenia Slovenija ima talent POP TV
POP TV
POP TV is a Slovenian commercial television station operated by the multi-media company PRO PLUS d.o.o.It is a TV channel with the highest ratings in Slovenia , and at the same time the most popular and trustworthy...

21 March 2010 Peter Poles
Peter Poles
Peter Poles is a Slovenian television personality, responsible for presenting the Slovenian televote results in various editions of Eurovision Song Contest. Poles first filled this role in 2003, returning in 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009...


Vid Valič
Brane Kastelic
Lucienne Lončina
Branko Čakarmiš
Season 1, 2010: Lina Kuduzović (7 years old songbird)

Season 2, 2011: Julija Kramar (opera singer)
 South Africa SA's Got Talent
SA's Got Talent
SA's Got Talent is a South African television show on SABC 2 and part of the Got Talent series. Presented by radio personalities Rob van Vuuren and Anele Mdoda, singers, dancers, comedians, variety acts, and other performers compete against each other for audience support. The winner of each...

SABC2 1 October 2009 Rob van Vuuren
Anele Mdoda
Shado Twala
Randall Abrahams
Ian van Memerty
Season 1, 2009: Darren Rajbal (a deaf hip hop dancer)
 South Korea 코리아 갓 탤런트
Korea's Got Talent
Korea's Got Talent
Korea's Got Talent is a Korean reality television show that premiered on 4 June 2011 on tvN Asia. The show is based on the Got Talent series format, which originated with Britain's Got Talent. This is the show's first series in Korea...

tvN Asia
TvN Asia
tvN Asia - a joint venture developed by Fox International Channels, operator of more than 140 channels in 32 languages across the globe, and CJ Media, Korea’s leading media major in 2008 expands its reach throughout Asia, bringing original programming, non-linear and mobile solutions from the...

4 June 2011 Noh Hong-cheol
Noh Hong-cheol
No Hong-chul is a South Korean television comedian, entertainer, and entrepreneur.-Personal history:Noh Hong-cheol studied mechanical engineering at the Hongik University...


Shin Young-il
Kolleen Park
Kolleen Park
Kolleen Park , is a South Korean musical director, conductor, and actress, and is also a judge on the Korean talent show Korea's Got Talent.-Background:...


Jang Jin
Jang Jin
Jang Jin was born on 28 November 1971 in Seoul, South Korea. He is a leading theatre director, playwright, movie director, screenwriter, and producer in South Korea.-Profile:...


Song Yun-ah
Song Yun-ah
Song Yun-ah is a Korean model, singer and actress. She spent most of her childhood days in Gimcheon, Gyeongsangbuk-do. She graduated with a Humanities Degree at the Hanyang University. Song, as an aspiring actress, made her debut in the 1995 KBS drama Age of Individuality. She later became a...

Season 1, 2011: Joo Ming-Jong (Poppin
Popping
Popping is a street dance and one of the original funk styles that came from California during the 1960s-70s. It is based on the technique of quickly contracting and relaxing muscles to cause a jerk in the dancer's body, referred to as a pop or a hit...

 Dance)
 Spain Tienes Talento Cuatro 2 January 2008 Nuria Roca
Eduardo Aldán
Natalia Millán
Natalia Millan
Natalia Millán is a Spanish actress. She was born in Madrid, on 27 November 1969. When she was 16, she began studying at the Taller de Escuelas Imaginarias . There she received singing lessons, jazz, interpretation and classic dance....


Miqui Puig
Josep Vicent
Josep Vicent
Josep Vicent is the artistic director and principal conductor of The World Orchestra.Josep Vicent’a career as a musician and conductor spans over two decades...

Season 1, 2008: Salva (flamenco
Flamenco
Flamenco is a genre of music and dance which has its foundation in Andalusian music and dance and in whose evolution Andalusian Gypsies played an important part....

 dancer)
 Sweden Talang
Talang (TV show)
Talang is series of four seasons of a Swedish version of the Got Talent series, show, where singers, dancers, comedians, variety acts, and other performers compete against each other for audience support and can win 500,000 SEK, broadcast on TV4.-Talang 2007:Talang 2007 was the first season of the...

TV4 13 April 2007 Peppe Eng
Peppe Eng
Peppe Eng is a Swedish television host for the sports news on TV4. In 2007 he hosted Talang 2007 and is highly tipped to host Talang 2008.In 2007 he was also a contestant on TV4's reality show Let's Dance.-Source:**...

 (2007–2008)
Kodjo Akolor
Kodjo Akolor
Kodjo Akolor is a Swedish TV/radio personality and comedian.He started as a comedian in 2005 and after two years became a regular on contemporary R&B themed radio station The Voice. In 2008 Alkolo became a reporter for Vakna med the voice a TV and radio show multi-casted on TV-channel Kanal 5 and...

 (2008)
Tobbe Blom
Tobbe Blom
Tobias Peter "Tobbe" Blom is a Swedish TV host on TV4 and magician. He is best known for his stage name Tobbe Trollkarl.Tobbe was the host of Idol 2005 along Johan Wiman and has also done a kids show for morning TV on TV4...

 (2009-)
Markoolio
Markoolio
Marko Kristian "Markoolio" Lehtosalo is a Swedish-Finnish multi-platinum selling recording artist, singer, musician, songwriter, actor, and comedian...

 (2009-)
Bert Karlsson
Bert Karlsson
Bert Willis Karlsson is a Swedish record company manager, entrepreneur, former politician and front figure of the New Democracy party....


Hanna Hedlund
Hanna Hedlund
Hanna Hedlund is a Swedish singer. Her sister, Lina Hedlund, is also a singer. She lives with Martin Stenmarck who sang the Swedish entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2005. They have two children together, Ida and Love.Hanna competed in Melodifestivalen 2000 with the song "Anropar försvunnen"...

 (2007)
Tobbe Blom
Tobbe Blom
Tobias Peter "Tobbe" Blom is a Swedish TV host on TV4 and magician. He is best known for his stage name Tobbe Trollkarl.Tobbe was the host of Idol 2005 along Johan Wiman and has also done a kids show for morning TV on TV4...

 (2007–2008)
Sofia Wistam
Sofia Wistam
Sofia Wistam is a Swedish television host on TV4 and TV3 and radio talk-show host. She has also worked as a stylist for stars such as Carola, Jerry Williams and Tommy Nilsson...

 (2008)
Charlotte Perrelli
Charlotte Perrelli
Charlotte Perrelli is a Swedish singer and occasional television host, perhaps most famous for winning the 1999 Melodifestivalen and subsequently that year's Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Take Me to Your Heaven."Since then she has released six singles and five albums...

 (2009-)
Johan Pråmell (2009-)

Season 1, 2007: Zillah & Totte (Ventriloquism)

Season 2, 2008: Zara Larsson (Singer)

Season 3, 2009: Charlie Caper (Magician)

Season 4, 2010: Jill Svensson (Opera Singer)

Season 5, 2011: Simon Westlund (Rubik's Cube
Rubik's Cube
Rubik's Cube is a 3-D mechanical puzzle invented in 1974 by Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik.Originally called the "Magic Cube", the puzzle was licensed by Rubik to be sold by Ideal Toy Corp. in 1980 and won the German Game of the Year special award for Best Puzzle that...

 Solver)
 Switzerland Die grössten Schweizer Talente SF1
Schweizer Fernsehen
Schweizer Fernsehen is the German language division of SRG SSR, in charge of production and distribution of television programmes in German for German-speaking Switzerland...

29 January 2011 Sven Epiney
Sven Epiney
Sven Epiney is a famous Swiss television host TV-moderator, radio moderator and editor, who works for SF DRS and DRS3 Television channels in Switzerland. He speaks German, French, English and Italian. He was the Swiss commentator for the Eurovision Song Contest in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and...

 &
Andrea Jansen
DJ Bobo
DJ Bobo
Peter René Cipiriano Baumann , better known as DJ BoBo, is a Swiss singer, songwriter, dancer and music producer. He has sold 14 million records worldwide and has released 10 studio albums as well as a few compilation albums which have included his previous hits in a reworked format...


Christa Rigozzi
Christa Rigozzi
Christa Rigozzi was crowned Miss Switzerland 2006 on 9 September 2006 in Geneva. She is the first woman from Ticino to win the title in 10 years....


Roman Kilchsperger

Season 1, 2011: Maya Wirz (Singer)

Season 2, 2012: Upcoming Season
 Thailand Thailand's Got Talent
Thailand's Got Talent
Thailand's Got Talent is a Thai reality television series on the Channel 3 television network, and part of the global British Got Talent series. It is a talent show that features singers, dancers, sketch artists, comedians and other performers of all ages competing for the advertised top prize of...

Channel 3
Channel 3 (Thailand)
Thailand Colour Television Channel 3 is a Thailand television channel. The headquarters are located in Bangkok, Thailand. The channel was established in 1970.The owner of the channel is BEC-TERO.- Ident :-Broadcast times:...

6 March 2011 Krit Sribhumset
Ketseptsawat Palakrawong Na Ayutthaya
Nirut Sirijanya
Nirut Sirijanya
Nirut Sirijanya is a Thai actor. He is best known for his role as Lauren's father Fong in the 2011 sequel The Hangover Part II.-Early life:...


Phinyo Rootham
Pornchita Na Songkhla
Pornchita na Songkhla
Pornchita "Benz" na Songkhla is a Thai actress, model and singer.-External links:*http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1847399/*http://wiki.asianfuse.net/index.php/Benz_Pornchita_Na_Songkhla...

Season 1, 2011: Myra Maneepatsorn Molloy (Singer)
Season 2, 2012:Upcoming Season
 Turkey Yetenek Sizsiniz Türkiye! Show TV
Show TV
SHOW TV is a nation-wide television channel in Turkey owned by Çukurova Holding. The channel was established by the Turkish businessmen Erol Aksoy and Haldun Simavi on March 1, 1992. During the last years, Show TV extended its range of viewers by adding more channels like Show Plus, Show Max and...

13 November 2009 Acun Ilıcalı
Acun Ilicali
Acun Ilıcalı is a Turkish television personality, producer and sport journalist. He is also the founder and head of Acun Medya.- Biography :...


Tanem Sivar(2009)
Acun Ilıcalı
Acun Ilicali
Acun Ilıcalı is a Turkish television personality, producer and sport journalist. He is also the founder and head of Acun Medya.- Biography :...


Ali Taran (2009)
Hülya Avşar
Hülya Avsar
Hülya Avşar is a Turkish actress, talk show host, and pop folk singer. Her father is Kurdish and her mother is Turkish.-Career:...

 
Oylum Talu (2009)
Sergen Yalçın
Sergen Yalçin
Ali Rıza Sergen Yalçın is a former Turkish footballer. The Turkish player who is recognised as one of the greatest footballers to play for Turkey....

 (2011)
Season 1, 2009-10: Bilal Avcı and Uğur Karameşe (Popping dance)

Season 2, 2011: Sefa Doğanay (Imitator)

Season 3, 2011-12: Current Season
 Ukraine Ukrayina Maye Talant
STB
STB (Channel)
STB is a Ukrainian commercial television network. Today, the coverage area of the network is 85% of Ukraine's territory. It is broadcast in all oblast centers and all Ukrainian cities with a population greater than 50,000...

3 April 2009 Oksana Marchenko Vlad Yama
Slava Frolova
Igor Kondratyuk
Season 1, 2009: Kseniya Simonova
Kseniya Simonova
Kseniya Simonova, is the 2009 winner of the TV contest Ukraine’s got Talent, which is part of the Got Talent series. She is a performance artist in sand animation and a philanthropist.-Early life and family:...

 (Sand artist)

Season 2, 2010: Olena Kovtun (Songstress)

Season 3, 2011: Vitaliy Luzkar
 United Kingdom
 Republic of Ireland
Britain's Got Talent
Britain's Got Talent
Britain's Got Talent is a British television talent show competition which started in June 2007 and originated from the Got Talent series. The show is produced by FremantleMedia's TalkbackThames and Simon Cowell's production company SYCOtv. The show is broadcast on ITV in Britain and TV3 in Ireland...

ITV1
ITV1
ITV1 is a generic brand that is used by twelve franchises of the British ITV Network in the English regions, Wales, southern Scotland , the Isle of Man and the Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey. The ITV1 brand was introduced by Carlton and Granada in 2001, alongside the regional identities of their...

, ITV1 HD, itv.com
(England, Wales, Scottish Borders, Isle of Man);
STV, STV HD, stv.tv
(North and Central Scotland);
UTV
UTV
UTV is a television channel based in the UK region of Northern Ireland. The channel is the Channel 3 or Independent Television licensee for Northern Ireland and is operated by UTV Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of UTV Media.- Terrestrial :* Analogue: Normally tuned to 3 * Freeview : 3...

, UTV HD, u.tv
(Northern Ireland);
Channel Television
Channel Television
Channel Television is a British television station which has served as an Independent Television contractor to the Channel Islands since 1962. It is based in Jersey...

, channelonline.tv
(Channel Islands);
ITV2
ITV2
ITV2 is a 24 hour, free-to-air entertainment television channel in the United Kingdom owned by ITV Digital Channels Ltd, a division of ITV plc. It was launched on 7 December 1998, and is available on digital television via satellite, cable, IPTV and terrestrial platforms. The channel has the...

, ITV2 HD (Britain's Got More Talent)

TV3
(Republic of Ireland)
9 June 2007 Ant & Dec
Ant & Dec
Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly , known collectively as Ant & Dec, are an English comedy and TV presenting duo from Newcastle upon Tyne, England...

 (Britain's Got Talent)
Stephen Mulhern
Stephen Mulhern
Stephen Daniel Mulhern is a British TV presenter, entertainer, and former magician. He began presenting in the studio on CITV in May 1998 and became a leading presenter until he left in August 2002. He has presented a number of shows, including SMTV Live, Holly & Stephen's Saturday Showdown and...


(
Britain's Got More Talent)
Current
Simon Cowell
Simon Cowell
Simon Phillip Cowell is an English A&R executive, television producer, entrepreneur, and television personality. He is known in the United Kingdom and United States for his role as a talent judge on TV shows such as Pop Idol, The X Factor, Britain's Got Talent and American Idol...


Amanda Holden
Amanda Holden
Amanda Louise Holden is an English actress and presenter. Among her roles are Mia Bevan in Cutting It, Sarah Trevanion in Wild at Heart, and the title role in Thoroughly Modern Millie, for which she was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Theatre Award...


Former
Piers Morgan
Piers Morgan
Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan , known professionally as Piers Morgan, is a British journalist and television presenter. He is editorial director of First News, a national newspaper for children....

 (2007–2010)
Kelly Brook
Kelly Brook
Kelly Brook is an English model, actress, entrepreneur, television presenter and Playboy model.-Early life:...

 (2009)
Michael McIntyre
Michael McIntyre
Michael Hazen James McIntyre is an English stand-up comedian. He is well known for appearing at many British stand-up comedy events and for several roles on television stand-up programmes such as Live at the Apollo and his own show, Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow...

 (2011)
David Hasselhoff
David Hasselhoff
David Michael Hasselhoff is an American actor, singer, producer and businessman. He is best known for his lead roles as Michael Knight in the popular 1980s US series Knight Rider and as L.A. County Lifeguard Mitch Buchannon in the series Baywatch...

 (2011)
Series 1, 2007
Britain's Got Talent (Series 1)
The first series of Britain's Got Talent began on 9 June 2007 and ended on 17 June 2007. It was won by opera singer Paul Potts. The first five shows concerned the audition stages of the competition and the final four shows aired the live semi-finals and final. The show was hosted by Ant & Dec on...

: Paul Potts
Paul Potts
Paul Robert Potts is an English pop opera tenor who won the first series of ITV's Britain's Got Talent in 2007, singing an operatic aria, "Nessun dorma" from Puccini's "Turandot". As a singer of operatic music, Potts recorded the album One Chance, which went to #1 in nine countries...

 (opera singer)

Series 2, 2008
Britain's Got Talent (Series 2)
The 2008 series of Britain's Got Talent was the second series of the show. Notable differences from the 2007 series the included the fact that the auditions visited Scotland and that there were 40 in the live semi-finals...

: George Sampson
George Sampson
George Jennifer Sampson is a street dancer and actor from Warrington, England. He won the second series of Britain's Got Talent on 31 May 2008 at the age of 14.-2007 series:...

 (street dancer)

Series 3, 2009
Britain's Got Talent (series 3)
The 2009 series of Britain's Got Talent was the third series of the programme. It began airing on ITV on 11 April. The 2009 panel of judges consisted of Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden and Piers Morgan...

: Diversity
Diversity (dance troupe)
Diversity are an English street dance troupe based in London. They are best known for winning the third series of Britain's Got Talent, famously beating Susan Boyle in the live final. They also won the Families United Positive Role Models at the Spirit of London Awards. The group, initially known...

 (dance troupe)

Series 4, 2010
Britain's Got Talent (series 4)
The fourth series of Britain's Got Talent was broadcast on ITV from 17 April 2010 to 5 June 2010. It was presented by Ant & Dec and won by gymnastic troupe Spelbound. Judges Simon Cowell, Piers Morgan and Amanda Holden returned for the televised auditions on 18 January at the Clyde Auditorium in...

: Spelbound
Spelbound
Spelbound are a gymnastic troupe from the United Kingdom who rose to fame in 2010, winning the fourth series of Britain's Got Talent. The prize was £100,000 and the opportunity to appear at the 2010 Royal Variety Performance. They also performed in the Britain's Got Talent Live tour...

 (gymnastics troupe)

Series 5, 2011
Britain's Got Talent (series 5)
The fifth series of Britain's Got Talent began on 16 April 2011 and ended on 4 June 2011. The winner of the show was Jai McDowall, who received £100,000 and a place at the 2011 Royal Variety Performance. The show was hosted by Ant & Dec on ITV, while Stephen Mulhern presented Britain's Got More...

: Jai McDowall
Jai McDowall
Jai McDowall is a Scottish singer who won the fifth series of Britain's Got Talent in June 2011. As the winner, he received £100,000 and will perform at the 2011 Royal Variety Performance...

 (singer)

Series 6, 2012: Upcoming series
 United States America's Got Talent
America's Got Talent
America's Got Talent is an American reality television series on the NBC television network, and part of the global British Got Talent franchise. It is a talent show that features singers, dancers, magicians, comedians, and other performers of all ages competing for the advertised top prize of...

NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

21 June 2006 Regis Philbin
Regis Philbin
Regis Francis Xavier Philbin is an American media personality, actor and singer, known for hosting talk and game shows since the 1960s. Philbin is often called "the hardest working man in show business" and holds the Guinness World Record for the most time spent in front of a television camera...

 (2006)
Jerry Springer
Jerry Springer
Gerald Norman "Jerry" Springer is a British-born American television presenter, best known as host of the tabloid talk show The Jerry Springer Show since its debut in 1991...

 (2007–2008)
Nick Cannon
Nick Cannon
Nicholas Scott "Nick" Cannon is an American actor, comedian, rapper, entrepreneur, record producer, radio, and television personality. On television, Cannon began as a teenage sketch comedian on All That before going on to host The Nick Cannon Show, Wild 'N Out, and America's Got Talent...

 (2009–present)
Current
Howie Mandel
Howie Mandel
Howard Michael "Howie" Mandel is a Canadian stand-up comedian, television host, and actor. He is well known as host of the NBC game show Deal or No Deal, as well as the show's daytime and Canadian-English counterparts. Before his career as a game show host, Mandel was best known for his role on...


Sharon Osbourne
Sharon Osbourne
Sharon Rachel Osbourne is an English television host, author, music manager, businesswoman and promoter as well as the wife of heavy metal singer-songwriter Ozzy Osbourne....


Former
David Hasslehoff
Brandy Norwood
Brandy Norwood
Brandy Rayana Norwood , known professionally as Brandy, is an American singer-songwriter, producer, actress, and dancer. In 2009, she introduced her rap alter-ego Bran'Nu....


Piers Morgan
Piers Morgan
Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan , known professionally as Piers Morgan, is a British journalist and television presenter. He is editorial director of First News, a national newspaper for children....

Season 1, 2006
America's Got Talent (Season 1)
The first season of America's Got Talent premiered on June 21, 2006 and concluded on August 17, 2006. The audition tour took place in April 2006, stopping at Los Angeles, California, New York City, New York, Chicago, Illinois, and Atlanta, Georgia. Regis Philbin was the host for this season and...

: Bianca Ryan
Bianca Ryan
Bianca Taylor Ryan is an American singer and guitarist, who won the debut season of NBC's America's Got Talent at age 11....

 (singer)

Season 2, 2007
America's Got Talent (Season 2)
The second season of America's Got Talent, an American television reality show talent competition, premiered on the NBC network on June 5, 2007 with a two-hour episode. Tabloid talk show host Jerry Springer succeeded Regis Philbin as host. Piers Morgan and David Hasselhoff returned as judges,...

: Terry Fator
Terry Fator
Terry Wayne Fator is a ventriloquist, impressionist, comedian, and singer from Dallas, Texas. Fator is capable of doing over 100 ventriloquial impersonations, and uses 16 different puppets in his act. He was the winner of Season 2 of America's Got Talent, and received the million dollar prize...

 (singer / ventriloquist)

Season 3, 2008
America's Got Talent (season 3)
The third season of America's Got Talent, an American television reality show talent competition, premiered on MediaCorp Channel 5 on September 3, 2008. Opera singer Neal E. Boyd was named the winner on January 28, 2009....

: Neal E. Boyd
Neal E. Boyd
Neal E. Boyd is an American pop opera singer. He is best known as the 2008 winner of America's Got Talent.-Early life:Neal E. Boyd, known worldwide as "The Voice of Missouri," grew up in Sikeston, Missouri...

 (singer)

Season 4, 2009
America's Got Talent (season 4)
The fourth season of America's Got Talent, an American television reality show talent competition, premiered on the NBC network on June 23, 2009. Country singer Kevin Skinner was named the winner on September 16, 2009....

: Kevin Skinner
Kevin Skinner
Patrick Kevin Skinner , better known as Kevin Skinner, is an American country music singer from the Jackson Purchase region of Kentucky. He was the winner of the fourth season of America's Got Talent.- Early life :...

 (singer)

Season 5, 2010
America's Got Talent (season 5)
The fifth season of America's Got Talent, an American television reality show talent competition, premiered in the United States on the NBC network and on Canada's Global on June 1, 2010...

: Michael Grimm (singer)

Season 6, 2011
America's Got Talent (season 6)
The sixth season of America's Got Talent, a reality television series, premiered on May 31, 2011 on NBC. On September 14, 2011, Landau Eugene Murphy, Jr...

: Landau Eugene Murphy, Jr. (singer)

Season 7, 2012: Upcoming season
Tengo Talento, Mucho Talento Estrella TV
Estrella TV
Estrella TV is a Spanish-language television network owned by Liberman Broadcasting. The network launched September 14, 2009.-Affiliates:-Former Affiliates:-Controversy:...

2010 Unknown Lorena Herrera
Hector Suarez
Pepe Garza
Season 1, 2010-11: Current Season
 Venezuela Venezuela Si Tiene Talento Venevisión
Venevisión
Venevisión is one of Venezuela's largest television networks and a Venezuelan cable and terrestrial television network, which is owned and presided over by Gustavo Cisneros...

Unknown Winston Vallenilla Luis Chataing
Dayana Mendoza
Dayana Mendoza
Dayana Sabrina Mendoza Moncada is a model and beauty pageant titleholder who won the titles of Miss Venezuela 2007 and Miss Universe 2008.-Personal life:...


Martin Imhof
 Vietnam Tìm kiếm tài năng: Vietnam's Got Talent
Vietnam's Got Talent
Tìm kiếm tài năng or Vietnam's Got Talent is a Vietnamese reality television talent show which is set to premiere on 18 December 2007 on Vietnam Television alongside MTV Vietnam. The show was based on the Got Talent series format that originated in the United Kingdom with Simon Cowell...

VTV
Vietnam Television
Vietnam Television, or VTV, is the national television broadcaster for Vietnam. Like all media of Vietnam, its programming is directly controlled by the government.-History:...


MTV Vietnam
MTV Vietnam
MTV Vietnam is a 24 hour music channel owned by MTV Networks Asia, a division of Viacom and UTV Corporation, a division of BHD Group and is under management of Vietnam Television...

18 December 2011 TBA Thành Lộc
Thúy Hạnh
Huy Tuấn
Season 1, 2011-12: Upcoming Season

Arab world

Arabs Got Talent debuted on 14 January 2011 on MBC4. The show proved very successful and very popular in the Arab world
Arab world
The Arab world refers to Arabic-speaking states, territories and populations in North Africa, Western Asia and elsewhere.The standard definition of the Arab world comprises the 22 states and territories of the Arab League stretching from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Arabian Sea in the...

. The judges are Najwa Karam
Najwa Karam
Najwa Karam is a Multi-Platinum, Best-Selling Lebanese Arab recording artist and Philanthropist. Najwa, widely known for her Mawwal and other musical talents, has surpassed musical and political limits in building her Empire, as she has effectively helped change the Arabic music industry in its...

, Amr Adeeb and Ali Jaber. The live shows started on 25 February 2011. The winner of the first series was the Egyptian poet Amro Qotamesh (in Arabic
Arabic language
Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...

 عمرو قطامش) Season 2 will start in 2012.

Argentina

The Argentine version called Talento Argentino (Argentine Talent) debuted on Sunday 27 July 2008 on the Telefé
Telefe
Televisión Federal S.A., best known as Telefe and later as TLF, is an Argentine television network. Formerly known as Canal Once , a state-run network, it was privatised and established as Telefe in 1989, when and News Corporation took over the channel...

 network. Judges are Cesar 'Kike' Teruel, Maximiliano Guerra and Catherine Fulop
Catherine Fulop
Catherine Amanda Fulop García is a Venezuelan actress, model and television presenter with both Venezuelan and Argentine citizenship. She participated in the Miss Venezuela 1986, finishing as the fourth runner–up...

, and the host is Mariano Peluffo
Mariano Peluffo
Mariano Peluffo is an Argentine television presenter.He began his career as a producer in El Agujerito Sin Fin, a children's programme of Canal 13 in the 90s with Julian Weich....

. The prize is $100,000. The first season was won by 25-year-old amateur humorist Martín Bustos. The second season started on 23 July 2009. A third season started on 23 October 2010.

Australia

In February 2007, Australia's Got Talent
Australia's Got Talent
Australia's Got Talent is an Australian reality television talent show which premiered on 18 February 2007 on the Seven Network. The show was based on the Got Talent series format that originated in the United Kingdom with Simon Cowell...

debuted on Seven Network
Seven Network
The Seven Network is an Australian television network owned by Seven West Media Limited. It dates back to 4 November 1956, when the first stations on the VHF7 frequency were established in Melbourne and Sydney.It is currently the second largest network in the country in terms of population reach...

. Grant Denyer
Grant Denyer
Grant Denyer is an Australian television reporter, personality and motor racing driver.-Television career:In 1997, Denyer began his career in the media, he gained a position at Prime Television in Wagga Wagga as a news reporter and journalist...

 is the host, with Dannii Minogue
Dannii Minogue
Danielle Jane "Dannii" Minogue is an Australian singer-songwriter, actress, television personality, radio personality, fashion designer and model...

, Red Symons
Red Symons
Redmond Symons is an Australian musician, writer, actor and radio host, probably best known as lead guitarist with Skyhooks and as the snide judge of "Red Faces", a segment of the long-running Hey Hey It's Saturday variety television show...

 and Tom Burlinson
Tom Burlinson
Tom Burlinson is an Australian actor and singer.He attended Pittwater High School on Sydney's Northern Beaches and was the School Captain in his final year...

 judging the performances. As of the fourth season the judging panel has changed with the removal of Red Symons and Tom Burlinson. The two new judges are Kyle Sandilands
Kyle Sandilands
Kyle Dalton Sandilands is an Australian radio and TV personality. He is currently the host with Jacqueline Henderson, better known as Jackie O, on the weekday morning radio program The Kyle and Jackie O Show on Sydney radio station 2Day FM, The Kyle and Jackie O Hour of Power which airs on...

 and Brian McFadden
Brian McFadden
Brian Nicholas McFadden , is an Irish singer-songwriter who rose to fame in the late 1990s as a member of the Irish boyband Westlife...

. The prize is A$
Australian dollar
The Australian dollar is the currency of the Commonwealth of Australia, including Christmas Island, Cocos Islands, and Norfolk Island, as well as the independent Pacific Island states of Kiribati, Nauru and Tuvalu...

250,000 (Jul 2007, approximately £164,000; US$274,000). 12-year-old country singer Bonnie Anderson was the first winner of the grand prize. The second season began airing from 29 April 2008 with 16-year-old guitarist Smokin' Joe Robinson as the winner of the grand prize. A third season, which aired on Wednesday nights, began on 4 February 2009 with 15-year-old opera singer Mark Vincent
Mark Vincent
Mark Vincent is an Australian pop opera singer. Vincent won Australia's Got Talent on 22 April 2009. His main inspiration is his late grandfather, Bruno, who raised him and taught him how to sing. Vincent has said that he would like to follow in the footsteps of his idol Anthony Warlow...

 as the winner of the grand prize. The fourth season began on 13 April 2010, airing on Tuesday nights, which saw Sydney dance group Justice Crew as the winners of the grand prize.

Belgium

The Belgian version called Supertalent in Vlaanderen. (Supertalent in Flanders) aired on VT4
VT4
VT4 is a Flemish commercial television channel. It is part of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG.The channel began broadcasting on 1 February 1995. The channel initially had no Belgian broadcasting license and was transmitted via London . The channel now broadcasts legally from Zaventem in Belgium...

. It was hosted by the late Dré Steemans
Dré Steemans
Dré Steemans was a Belgian tv and radio host.-Career:Steemans debuted on 1 September 1985 in the radioshow Het Genootschap of Luk Saffloer, in which he started using his alter ego Felice Damiano...

 ("Felice", who also hosted the Belgian version of Deal or No Deal
Deal or No Deal
Deal or No Deal is the name of several closely related television game shows, the first of which was the Dutch Miljoenenjacht produced by Dutch producer Endemol. It is played with up to 26 cases with certain sums of money...

. Deceased in October 2009.) and Ann van Elsen
Ann Van Elsen
Ann Van Elsen is a model and TV personality from Mol, Antwerp in Belgium. She was crowned Miss Belgium in 2002.- Biography :...

 (2002 Miss Belgium
Miss Belgium
Miss Belgium is the largest national beauty pageant in Belgium, responsible for selecting the country's representatives to Miss Universe, Miss World and Miss International pageants.-Winners since 1969:-2008 controversy:...

). On the jury were Paul Jambers, Martine Prenen, and Gert Verhulst. The prize €50,000 was won by female singing trio Triple E.

Chile

The Chilean version called Talento Chileno (Chilean Talent), the Judges are Antonio Vodanovic, Francisca García-Huidobro, Rodrigo Díaz
Rodrigo Díaz
Rodrigo Díaz may refer to:*Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, commonly known as El Cid*Rodrigo Díaz de los Cameros, troubadour*Rodrigo Díaz , Argentine footballer*Rodrigo Díaz , Guatemalan who swam at the 2004 Summer Olympics...

, and the host is Julián Elfenbein. The first season began on 27 September 2010 and finished in 13 December 2010 on Chilevisión
Chilevisión
CHV, also known as Chilevisión, is the third oldest television station in Chile. Formerly called Teleonce and RTU , this TV station was owned by University of Chile, a Chilean state university...

. The winner of the first series was the singer Camila Silva. The seacond season is expected to debut on May 2011.

China

In April 2010, SMG
Shanghai Media Group
Shanghai Media Group , under the Shanghai Media & Entertainment Group , is a multimedia television and radio broadcasting, news and Internet company...

 announced a licensed spin-off show of the Britain's got talent, 中国达人秀 (English: China's Got Talent
China's Got Talent
China's Got Talent is a British-owned Chinese reality television series on Dragon TV and a part of the Got Talent franchise, hosted by Cheng Lei. It is a talent show that features all different kinds of performances of all ages competing for performing contract with Fremantle Media and Sony Music...

). The show started airing on DragonTV on 25 June 2010, the pre-audition will not be aired on the network. but the pre-audition can be seen on the official website. The audition began on 25 July 2010. Shanghainese stand-up comedian Zhou Libo
Zhou Libo
Zhou Libo is a Chinese stand-up comedian. On December 1, 2006, he made his first special performance in Anfu Road, Shanghai. In late 2008, Zhou Libo create his own stand-up comedy called "Shanghai Style Small Talk" which includes A Laughable Talk on the Past 30 Years and A Laughable Talk in Big...

, Taiwanese singer-actress Annie Yi and mainland pop composer Gao Xiaosong
Gao Xiaosong
Gao Xiaosong is a Chinese composer, songwriter, music producer and director, "Campus Folk" representative.-Career:1969 Born into a family of senior intellectuals1988 Graduated from Beijing No.4 High School...

 will make up the jury panel for the final rounds of "China's Got Talent." The winner will get a performing contract with Fremantle Media and Sony Music Entertainment. He or she also has the chance to perform at Las Vegas for three months and be invited on Taiwanese singer Jolin Tsai's world tour concert as a guest performer. First season's winner was awarded to an armless pianist, Liu Wei
Liu Wei (pianist)
Liu Wei is a Chinese disabled pianist from Beijing who won the first series of China's Got Talent at the age of 23 by playing the piano with his toes.-The accident:...

. The second season's winner is a popper from Guangxi
Guangxi
Guangxi, formerly romanized Kwangsi, is a province of southern China along its border with Vietnam. In 1958, it became the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China, a region with special privileges created specifically for the Zhuang people.Guangxi's location, in...

, Zhou Jun

Croatia

The Croatian version called Supertalent
Supertalent
Supertalent is a talent show that is a Croatian license version of the British popular talent show Got Talent whose authors are Simon Cowell and Ken Warwick....

aired on Nova TV in Fall 2009. Actors Rene Bitorajac
Rene Bitorajac
Rene Bitorajac is a Croatian actor. He appeared in a number of Croatian and Bosnian films since the 1980s. Most notably, he starred in the 2001 Academy Award-winning Bosnian film No Man's Land...

 and Igor Mešin host the show. Judges are: an actor Enis Bešlagić
Enis Bešlagic
Enis Bešlagić is an actor and TV personality from Bosnia and Herzegovina.- External links :...

, singer Nina Badrić
Nina Badric
Nina Badrić is a Croatian pop singer. Before starting her career in the entertainment industry she used to be a bank teller. She began performing in early 1990s, exploiting the sudden popularity of dance music, but her repertoire gradually became more mainstream...

 and journalist Dubravko Merlić
Dubravko Merlić
Dubravko Merlić is a Croatian television journalist, producer and author, known for his work as a reporter, editor and anchor on Croatian national television...

. 15-year-old twirler Tihomir Bendelja won first Croatian Got Talent and also he got 200.000 kuna's. Singer Monica Rogić was second, and the dance group Atomic Dance Factory was third. The new season of the show started in September 2010 and was won by the singer Viktorija Novosel
Viktorija Novosel
Viktorija Novosel is a Croatian singer. She rose to fame as the winner of the second season of Supertalent.-References:...

. Accordion
Accordion
The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....

 player Aleksandar Olujić finished second, and the dog trainer Maja Terzić and her dog Nessa finished third.

Czech Republic / Slovakia

TV Nova and TV Markíza (the biggest private players on the Czech and Slovak TV markets and both owned by CME
Central European Media Enterprises
Central European Media Enterprises is a Bermuda-based vertically integrated company. Founded by Ronald Lauder, it owns broadcast, content and new media operations in Central and Eastern Europe...

) missed its chance to obtain the license from FremantleMedia
FremantleMedia
FremantleMedia, Ltd. is the content and production division of Bertelsmann's RTL Group, Europe's second largest TV, radio, and production company...

. Both TV stations immediately came up with the very same concept of their own. They called it Talentmania and it was broadcast on the same day as original Got Talent show during season one. The original licence for Got Talent show got TV Prima
TV Prima
TV Prima is a Czech private television station. Its channel is broadcast from Prague. Its current owner is FTV Prima, spol. s r. o., general manager Marek Singer....

 and TV JOJ
TV JOJ
-About TV JOJ:It was launched on 2 March 2002 as a successor of the TV Global, which was broadcasting since March 2000. TV Joj was built by former head of Czech Republic channel TV Nova, Vladimír Železný, when he was at war with TV Nova’s U.S. investor Central European Media Enterprises...

 (second biggest TVs on Czech and Slovak TV markets). First season of the show called Česko Slovensko má talent ("Czechia Slovakia Got Talent") started to air on 29th August 2010 with hosts Martin Pyco Rausch and Jakub Prachař, the jury consisted of Jan Kraus (also judge of Slovakia's Got Talent in 2008), Lucie Bílá
Lucie Bílá
Lucie Bílá is a Czech pop singer. With a powerful, distinctively intense voice and impressive range, she is one of the most famous and celebrated female artists in Czech Republic history...

 and Jaro Slávik. Main prize was contract for a headline performance show in Las Vegas and amount of 100'000 € (around 2'500'000 CZK). Due to a great success, the show was renewed for its second season which will be aired in 2011. Main prize, the hosts and judges remain with one exception - Jan Kraus was replaced by Martin Dejdar
Martin Dejdar
Martin Dejdar is a Czech actor and entertainer. He is the voice of Bart Simpson on the Czech dub of The Simpsons.-References:...

.

Denmark

In the fall of 2008, Denmark's Got Talent (named Talent 08, followed by Talent 09 in 14 August 2009) aired on the Danish broadcast corporation, Danmark's Radio's
Danmarks Radio
DR – officially rendered into English as the Danish Broadcasting Corporation – is Denmark's national broadcasting corporation. Founded in 1925 as a public-service organization, it is today Denmark's oldest and largest electronic media enterprise...

 DR1
DR1
DR1 is a Danish national television channel, produced by the public service broadcaster, DR. It was the first television station to be established in Denmark, and began broadcasting in 1951 – at first only for an hour a day three times a week....

. Castings ran April through June, and auditions were taped in late June. Martin Hall, Peter Aalbæk Jensen
Peter Aalbæk Jensen
Peter Aalbæk Jensen is a Danish film producer who in 1992 with director Lars von Trier founded the Danish film company Zentropa and later its huge studio complex Filmbyen....

 and Julie Steincke the judges. Due to the origin of the name of the show, it was renamed into "Talent 2008", supposedly to make it easier to communicate in the danish language
Danish language
Danish is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in the country of Denmark. It is also spoken by 50,000 Germans of Danish ethnicity in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, where it holds the status of minority language...

. Felix Schmidt and Mikkel Herforth are the hosts. The first programme aired on 15 August and the live semi finals commenced on 26 September with the grand final on 24 October where male popping dance duo Jeppe & Nick also known as Robotdrengene won the top prize of DKK250,000.

For the second season in 2009 the judges were changed to Hella Joof
Hella Joof
Hella Joof is a Danish actress and director. She was born to a Danish mother and a Gambian father.Joof directed En kort en lang , Oh Happy Day and Fidibus and is considered one of Denmark's more important directors...

, Jokeren
Jokeren
Jesper Dahl , better known by the stage name Jokeren , is a Danish hip-hop artist and rapper. He has also been a prolific producer and has worked on American hip-hop albums, including one of Ice Cube's, alongside Danish productions...

 (a.k.a. Jesper Dahl) and Nikolaj Koppel.For the first time, a rapper called Kale Pimp win a got talent show in history.

Finland

Finland started its version of the show in autumn 2007. The show is called Talent Suomi (Talent Finland) and aired on Nelonen
Nelonen
Nelonen is a Finnish commercial TV channel. It started out as Helsinki's local television channel PTV in 1989 on the HTV cable network, which name was changed first to PTV4 and then to Nelonen. It started on June 1, 1997. Nelonen, in Finnish, means the glyph of the number four. The channel is...

. Susanna Laine and Martti Vannas were the hosts. Judges were movie director Timo Koivusalo
Timo Koivusalo
Timo Johannes Koivusalo is a Finnish actor, director, writer, columnist, composer and musician. His most successful film to date was Työnnän syvälle kammioon, which debuted in the movie theaters in 2001....

, professional dancer Sami Saikkonen and Finnish Suosikki-magazine former chief director, Katja Ståhl. The main prize was €30,000. 18-year-old beatboxer Aleksi Vähäpassi was the first winner of the grand prize. The second season started in autumn 2009. The show kept its name and aired in same channel. This season the show was hosted by Jarkko Valtee and Osku Heiskanen. Actress Jaana Saarinen
Jaana Saarinen
Jaana E. Saarinen is a Finnish actress. She is famous for the Finnish soap opera Salatut elämät, where she played Maarit Salin from 1999 to 2004 and 2007 to 2008. For 25 years, Saarinen was involved with the Kotka City Theatre from 1981 to 2006. She took part in the very first Thilia Thalia...

 replaced Timo Koivusalo
Timo Koivusalo
Timo Johannes Koivusalo is a Finnish actor, director, writer, columnist, composer and musician. His most successful film to date was Työnnän syvälle kammioon, which debuted in the movie theaters in 2001....

 as a judge. The main prize was €30,000. Second season's winner was "music-pantomimic" Miikka Mäkelä.

France

On 2 November 2006, M6
Métropole 6
M6, also known as Metropole television, is the most profitable private national French TV channel and the third most watched television network in the French-speaking world...

 debuted their adaptation of the show, named Incroyable Talent (Incredible Talent). Alessandra Sublet is the host and Jean Piere Den Bois (Agent), Sophie Edelstein (Artistic director for Circus Pinder) and Gilbert Rozon (A Canadian theatrical producer) were the judges. The
Euro
The euro is the official currency of the eurozone: 17 of the 27 member states of the European Union. It is also the currency used by the Institutions of the European Union. The eurozone consists of Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg,...

150,000 top prize (July 2007, approximately US$205,000) was won by 28-year-old popper
Popping (dance)
Popping is a street dance and one of the original funk styles that came from California during the 1960s-70s. It is based on the technique of quickly contracting and relaxing muscles to cause a jerk in the dancer's body, referred to as a pop or a hit...

/b-boy Salah Benlemqawanssa
Salah (dancer)
Salah Benlemqawanssa , is an award-winning competitive hip-hop dancer who specializes in popping. In 2006 he won France's Incroyable Talent competition in its first season. The same year he won a 2-on-2 popping battle with teammate Iron Mike at Juste Debout, a French based international street...

. The second season was won by 27-year-old b-boy Junior. In the second season, ballet dancer Patrick Dupont replaced Jean Piere Den Bois as one of the judges. The third season aired on October–November 2008 and was won by 23-year-old fire artist Alex.
The fourth season, which is actually airing, has been renamed "La France a un incroyable talent". Judges Sophie Edelstein and Patrick Dupont have been replaced by actress Valérie Stroh and humorist Smaïn
Smaïn
Smaïn is a French comedian, humorist, writer, actor and director of Algerian descent.-External links:...

 respectively. The prize was won by Les Echos-Liés, an humoristic breakdance group. On the fifth season, Smaïn
Smaïn
Smaïn is a French comedian, humorist, writer, actor and director of Algerian descent.-External links:...

 was replaced by the singer Dave
Dave
Dave may refer to:* Dave * Dave * Dave * Dave * DAvE , a C-language software development tool* Thursby DAVE, file- and printer-sharing software-See also:* Dangerous Dave, a computer game...

.

Germany

For the new season 2007/2008 RTL Television
RTL Television
Rtl.de' redirects here. For other uses, see RTL.RTL Television , or simply RTL, is a German commercial television station distributed via cable and satellite along with DVB-T , in larger population centres...

, one of the main German TV stations, announced Das Supertalent (The Supertalent). The prize is €100,000. The show is presented by Marco Schreyl
Marco Schreyl
Marco Schreyl is a German television and radio host.- Television career :In 1997, Schreyl began his television host career at MDR television...

, who is also the host of Deutschland sucht den Superstar
Deutschland sucht den Superstar
Deutschland sucht den Superstar is a German reality talent show, also commonly known by its initials DSDS. Part of the Idol franchise, it was created by English media mogul Simon Fuller as a spin-off from the British show Pop Idol, of which two series were broadcast between the years of 2001 and...

 - the German version of Pop Idol
Pop Idol
Pop Idol is a British television series which debuted on ITV on 6 October 2001. The show was a talent contest to decide the best new young pop singer in the United Kingdom, based on viewer voting and participation. Two series were broadcast - one in 2001-02 and a second in 2003...

. The first jury consisted of Dieter Bohlen
Dieter Bohlen
Dieter Günter Bohlen is a German songwriter, singer, musician, producer, entertainer, TV personality, and writer. Bohlen is best known for being part of popular pop-duo Modern Talking during 1984–1987 and 1998–2003.-Biography:Bohlen took his Abitur in Oldenburg...

 (also a judge on Deutschland sucht den Superstar), comedian Ruth Moschner
Ruth Moschner
Ruth Isabel Moschner is a German TV presenter and comedian. She was a judge in the first season of Das Supertalent, the German version of Britain's Got Talent, but was replaced by Sylvie van der Vaart in the second season. She also appeared in Big Brother Germany and the comedy show Freitag Nacht...

, and circus director André Sarrasani. RTL Television
RTL Television
Rtl.de' redirects here. For other uses, see RTL.RTL Television , or simply RTL, is a German commercial television station distributed via cable and satellite along with DVB-T , in larger population centres...

 is the main broadcasting arm of RTL Group
RTL Group
RTL Group is Europe's largest TV, radio and production company, and is majority-owned by German media conglomerate Bertelsmann. It has 45 television and 32 radio stations in 11 countries...

, which also owns the "Got Talent" production company FremantleMedia
FremantleMedia
FremantleMedia, Ltd. is the content and production division of Bertelsmann's RTL Group, Europe's second largest TV, radio, and production company...

. 19-year-old opera singer Ricardo Marinello was the first winner of the grand prize. The second season started on 18 October 2008, and saw Sylvie van der Vaart
Sylvie Meis
Sylvie Françoise van der Vaart , of Indo descent from her fathers side , is a Dutch television personality and model, and wife of footballer Rafael van der Vaart.-Netherlands:...

 (a Dutch TV presenter and wife of footballer Rafael van der Vaart
Rafael van der Vaart
Rafael Ferdinand van der Vaart is a Dutch footballer who plays for English Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur and the Dutch national team. His preferred position is as an attacking midfielder; he can, however, also operate in other positions, such as second striker...

) and Bruce Darnell
Bruce Darnell
Bruce Darnell is an American model and choreographer based in Germany.Darnell was born in New York City and grew up in Colorado. After studying sociology, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and served six years as a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division.In 1983 he began his career as a model in...

 (an American model and choreographer who also judges Germany's Next Topmodel) join Bohlen in the judging panel and Daniel Hartwich became Schreyl's co-host. The winner of the second season was 44-year-old harmonica player Michael Hirte. The third season was aired from 16 October 2009 to 20 December 2009 with 11 Shows every Saturday. The Winner of the third season was Ivo Antony and his dog Primadonna. The castings for the fourth season will start in Spring 2010. The first episode will be screed on 24 September.

Greece

Ellada Eheis Talento (Greek
Greek alphabet
The Greek alphabet is the script that has been used to write the Greek language since at least 730 BC . The alphabet in its classical and modern form consists of 24 letters ordered in sequence from alpha to omega...

: Ελλάδα Έχεις Ταλέντο; English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

: Greece's Got Talent) premiered on 23 March 2007 on ANT1
ANT1
Antenna, better known as ANT1, is a television network airing in Greece and Cyprus. The alternate spelling is play on words in Greek; ena is the Greek number 1, thus ANT1 is pronounced the same as Antenna . It launched on 31 December 1989, the same year as rival Mega Channel, and is owned by...

. The first season was hosted by actress and television presenter Sophia Aliberti
Sophia Aliberti
Sophia Aliberti is a Greek talk show and game show host since 2004, television actress, and former fashion model.-Filmography:*Ta Tsakalia: Ena koinoniko provlima, 1981 .... Athina Fotiadou*Garsoniera gia deka 1981...

, and judged by Greek show business personalities Ilias Psinakis, Vaggelis Perris and Matthildi Maggira. The second season and third seasons were hosted by television presenter Christos Ferentinos.

Hungary

Csillag Születik premiered on 20 October 2007, at same time as the German counterpart Das Supertalent
Das Supertalent
Das Supertalent is the German talent show and part of the internationally successful Got Talent franchise, presented by Marco Schreyl, who was joined by Daniel Hartwich from the second season onwards...

 did, on the RTL
RTL Television
Rtl.de' redirects here. For other uses, see RTL.RTL Television , or simply RTL, is a German commercial television station distributed via cable and satellite along with DVB-T , in larger population centres...

 group's Hungarian channel, RTL Klub
RTL Klub
RTL Klub is a television station owned by RTL Group and broadcast in Hungary. It was one of Hungary's first commercial TV channels and was only two days after the main rival TV2 to begin broadcasting.-About RTL Klub:...

. The first season's grand prize, 12 million Hungarian Forint
Hungarian forint
The forint is the currency of Hungary. It is divided into 100 fillér, although fillér coins are no longer in circulation. The introduction of the forint on 1 August 1946 was a crucial step of the post-WWII stabilization of the Hungarian economy, and the currency remained relatively stable until...

s, was won by Utasi Árpád, a 10 years old Serbian-Hungarian boy who told tales in a humorous manner. The show went on a break for the 2008 season, returning only on 10 October 2009 with a new line-up of judges.

India

The Indian version of the show called India's Got Talent
India's Got Talent
India's Got Talent is the Indian franchise of the Got Talent series, and is a cooperative effort between India's TV channel Colors and Britain's FremantleMedia. The first episode of India's Got Talent premiered on June 27, 2009. India's Got Talent follows the global Got Talent format, in which...

started in Mid 2009 on India's hit TV Channel Colors. The panel of three judges consists of director Shekhar Kapoor, actress Kirron Kher
Kirron Kher
Kirron Kher is an Indian theatre, film and television actress and a TV talk show host.- Early life :Kirron Kher was born in Bangalore in a JatSikh family of Punjabi background. She was brought up in Chandigarh, Punjab, where she did her schooling and later college from Panjab University, Chandigarh...

, and actress Sonali Bendre
Sonali Bendre
Sonali Bendre is an Indian actress and model. She has mostly starred in Bollywood films but has acted in many Telugu films as well as a number of Marathi, Tamil and Kannada films. She was also one of the four judges in the fourth season of Indian Idol and India's Got Talent...

. The show has been won by Prince Dance Group
Prince Dance Group
Prince Dance Group, a dance troupe based in Berhampur, Orissa, India led by T. Krishna Mohan Reddy. It has won a reality show India's Got Talent on an Indian TV channel "Colors" Colors . The group is unique that the members are from a remote part of India and most of them are from disadvantaged...

 - a dance group consisting of construction workers from the state of Orissa
Orissa
Orissa , officially Odisha since Nov 2011, is a state of India, located on the east coast of India, by the Bay of Bengal. It is the modern name of the ancient nation of Kalinga, which was invaded by the Maurya Emperor Ashoka in 261 BC. The modern state of Orissa was established on 1 April...

. The three judges for India's Got Talent season 3 were Sajid Naddiawala, Kirron Kher
Kirron Kher
Kirron Kher is an Indian theatre, film and television actress and a TV talk show host.- Early life :Kirron Kher was born in Bangalore in a JatSikh family of Punjabi background. She was brought up in Chandigarh, Punjab, where she did her schooling and later college from Panjab University, Chandigarh...

 and Sonali Bendre
Sonali Bendre
Sonali Bendre is an Indian actress and model. She has mostly starred in Bollywood films but has acted in many Telugu films as well as a number of Marathi, Tamil and Kannada films. She was also one of the four judges in the fourth season of Indian Idol and India's Got Talent...

. The Season 2
India's Got Talent (season 2)
The second season of India’s Got Talent started from July 30, 2010. It will air every Friday and Saturday at 9 pm on Colors.-Judges:Indian actress Sonali Bendre, Bollywood Director/Anchor Sajid Khan, and actress Kiron Kher are the season 2 judges.-Winners:...

 was won by Shillong Chamber Choir
Shillong Chamber Choir
Shillong Chamber Choir is an Indian chamber choir based in Shillong; founded in 2001, it shot to fame after it won the a reality talent show, India's Got Talent in October 2010, on Colors TV, part of the Got Talent franchise, where it performed western chorals, as well as choral-style revamps of...

, based in Shillong
Shillong
-Connectivity:Although well connected by road, Shillong has no rail connection and a proper air connection. Umroi Airport exists but has only limited flights.-Roadways:Shillong is well connected by roads with all major north eastern states...

, in the state of Meghalaya
Meghalaya
Meghalaya is a state in north-eastern India. The word "Meghalaya" literally means the Abode of Clouds in Sanskrit and other Indic languages. Meghalaya is a hilly strip in the eastern part of the country about 300 km long and 100 km wide, with a total area of about 8,700 sq mi . The...

.

Indonesia

"Indonesia's Got Talent" first aired on Indosiar
Indosiar
Indosiar is a publicly owned national television station in Indonesia, and has been operating from West Jakarta since 1994. It was listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange in 2004. Citibank Singapore has an 8.5 percent shareholding...

 on 23 July 2010. The judges are Vina Panduwinata, Anjasmara, and Ria Irawan and the hosts are Tora Sudiro and Vincent Rompies. The prize is Rp100.000.000 and a chance to compete with the other winners of the Got Talent series in World's Got Talent
World's Got Talent
World's Got Talent is an upcoming talent television show that puts 25 winners from various Got Talent series to compete against each other. From there, one of them will be crowned the winner of The World's Got Talent and take home a million pound prize...

. This show has ended their episodes on 26 December 2010 with Vania Larissa, 15 y.o Opera Singer is the winner.

Italy

The Italian version of the show called Italia's Got Talent is airing on Canale 5
Canale 5
Canale 5 is an Italian private television network of Mediaset, the media branch of Fininvest. Canale 5 was the first private television network to have a national coverage in Italy in 1980, based on a local channel, TeleMilano 58, founded in 1978....

 between 12 December 2009 and 17 May 2010.It is hosted by Simone Annichiarico and Geppi Cucciari. The judges are the host of Chi vuol essere milionario? (Who Wants to be a Millionaire?) Gerry Scotti
Gerry Scotti
Gerry Scotti is an Italian television presenter, actor and former member of the Italian Parliament.Scotti was born Virginio Scotti on August 7, 1956 in Miradolo Terme, Pavia. After giving up studying law Scotti began his career as a disc jockey at Radio Milano International...

, Maria De Filippi
Maria De Filippi
Maria De Filippi is an Italian television host. She is one of the most popular Italian presenters in the Italian television.-Biography and Career:...

 and Rudy Zerbi.

Netherlands

A Dutch version called Holland's Got Talent, started on SBS 6 during 2008. The grand prize was €100,000. It was hosted by Gerard Joling
Gerard Joling
Gerard Jan Joling is a Dutch singer and television presenter. Known for his high tenor voice, he rose to fame in the late 80's and released a string of singles including "Ticket to the Tropics", "Love is in your Eyes", and his biggest hit, "No more boleros", a song that reached the top 10 in...

 with Henkjan Smits (who also judged Idols
Idols (Netherlands)
Idols is a television show on the Dutch television network RTL 4, which is part of the Idol series based on the popular British show Pop Idol. The show is a contest to determine the best young singer in the Netherlands....

 and X Factor
X Factor (Netherlands)
X Factor is a Dutch television music talent show contested by aspiring pop singers drawn from public auditions. It is shown Friday evenings on the RTL4 Network in the Netherlands. The first series of the show aired from October 2006 through to February 2007, while the second series of the show...

), Patricia Paay
Patricia Paay
Patricia Anglaia Margareth Paaij , best known as Patricia Paay, is a Dutch singer, radio host, glamour model and television personality. In the Netherlands, she is well known for her musical career, which spans over four decades...

 and Robert Ronday (manager of Circus Herman Renz
Circus Herman Renz
Circus Herman Renz is the largest circus in the Netherlands, and has been touring the Netherlands and other countries since 1911.-Establishment of the circus:...

) as the judges. 14-year-old contortionist, aerial acrobat and rhythmic gymnast Daniëlle Bubberman was the first winner of the grand prize. The second season started on 21 March 2009 with 12-year-old singer and guitarist Tessa Kersten as the winner. The show changed from channel in 2010, now it airs on RTL 4
RTL 4
RTL 4 is a commercial television station in the Netherlands. It is the most-watched commercial station in the country, popular especially with those aged between 20 and 49. The station has three sister tv channels: RTL 5, RTL 7 and RTL 8...

. Robert ten Brink
Robert ten Brink
Robert ten Brink is a Dutch presenter and actor.He won the Golden TeleVizier-Ring in 1993 for All you need is love reality-TV.In 1997, he was chosen as Holland's most popular personality....

 became the new host and Gordon Heuckeroth
Gordon Heuckeroth
Cornelis Willem Heuckeroth is a Dutch performer and radio and television personality, better known by his nickname Gordon...

 (who also judged Idols
Idols (Netherlands)
Idols is a television show on the Dutch television network RTL 4, which is part of the Idol series based on the popular British show Pop Idol. The show is a contest to determine the best young singer in the Netherlands....

 and X Factor
X Factor (Netherlands)
X Factor is a Dutch television music talent show contested by aspiring pop singers drawn from public auditions. It is shown Friday evenings on the RTL4 Network in the Netherlands. The first series of the show aired from October 2006 through to February 2007, while the second series of the show...

) and Dan Karaty
Dan Karaty
Daniel Quinten Karaty , an American TV personality, producer, dancer and choreographer. He has performed with and/or created routines for pop superstars such as Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears, Kylie Minogue, and *NSYNC...

 (who also judge the Dutch So You Think You Can Dance
So You Think You Can Dance (Belgium and The Netherlands)
So You Think You Can Dance is a joint Belgian-Dutch dance competition show broadcast on RTL 5 and vtm television stations. The first season was broadcast only in The Netherlands, whereas starting with season 2, it became a joint Belgian-Dutch show....

) were new judges.

New Zealand

In March 2008, local broadcaster of America's Got Talent
America's Got Talent
America's Got Talent is an American reality television series on the NBC television network, and part of the global British Got Talent franchise. It is a talent show that features singers, dancers, magicians, comedians, and other performers of all ages competing for the advertised top prize of...

 Prime Television announced that it would be launching a local version of the show. New Zealand's Got Talent
New Zealand's Got Talent
New Zealand's Got Talent was a New Zealand reality television show which premiered on 8 September 2008 on Prime Television New Zealand, New Zealand. The show is based on the Got Talent series format that originated with America's Got Talent and Britain's Got Talent...

. Paul Ellis
Paul Ellis
Paul B. Ellis MNZM is a New Zealand record producer, manager, and radio host. He is most known to audiences for being the former judge of New Zealand Idol and the current judge of the reality series New Zealand's Got Talent....

 (who also judges NZ Idol), The judges are Miriama Smith
Miriama Smith
Miriama Te Rangimarie Smith is a New Zealand film and television actress who has played roles in various TV shows such as Xena: Warrior Princess, Karaoke High and Shortland Street...

 (actress and participant from Dancing with the Stars
Dancing with the Stars (New Zealand TV series)
Dancing with the Stars is a New Zealand television series based on the British series Strictly Come Dancing. The show introduces eight local celebrities paired with professional ballroom danceers who each week compete against each other in a competition to impress a panel of judges and the viewing...

) and Richard Driver (the host of Radio with Pictures) Andrew Mulligan
Andrew Mulligan
Andrew Mulligan is a New Zealand television presenter. He co-hosts on Sky Television's PRIME TV channel at 6:30pm weekdays, The Crowd Goes Wild, with former New Zealand test cricketer Mark Richardson...

 (the host of The Crowd Goes Wild
The Crowd Goes Wild
The Crowd Goes Wild is a half-hour sports show broadcast on New Zealand nationwide television channel Prime TV. The show premiered on Monday 26 June 2006....

) and Jason Reeves (radio host of Classic Hits FM
Classic Hits FM
Classic Hits is an Adult Contemporary music radio network broadcasting in 25 markets throughout New Zealand, targeting 25 - 55 year olds. Its a family-focused radio network with some of New Zealand's most experienced broadcasters on air and behind the scenes. It currently has around 387,000...

) are the hosts. It has the top prize of NZ$
New Zealand dollar
The New Zealand dollar is the currency of New Zealand. It also circulates in the Cook Islands , Niue, Tokelau, and the Pitcairn Islands. It is divided into 100 cents....

100,000. The first episode went on air on 8 September. The live semi finals started airing on 29 September with the results show on 30 September. On 28 October a 16-year-old dancer named Chaz Cummings won the $100,000 prize. TMC (That Mean Crew) - also a dance act, were the runner ups.

Norway

TV 2
TV 2 (Norway)
TV 2 is the largest commercial television station in Norway. Over 30% of the time Norwegians spend watching TV is spent watching TV 2. The station has 65% of the market for TV commercials in Norway....

's version is Norske Talenter (Norwegian Talents). The show started on 22 February 2008. It was hosted by Marte Stokstad (from Idol
Idol (Norway)
Idol: Jakten på en superstjerne is a television show on the Norwegian television channel TV 2, based on the popular British show Pop Idol. The show describes itself as a "Search For A SuperStar". The contestants are first narrowed down to 100 contestants, and then down to 24-50 through several...

) and Sturla Berg-Johansen
Sturla Berg-Johansen
Sturla Berg-Johansen is a Norwegian stand-up comedian, imitator, actor and television host.He grew up in Tønsberg where he started his acting at Tønsberg Amateur Theater. He worked at a traveling agency at the end of the 1980s, and he was, among other things, in charge of entertainment for...

 (from Deal or No Deal
Deal or No Deal (Norway)
The Norwegian version of Deal or No Deal airs on TV 2 Norway. The grand prize is 3,000,000 kroner , and the smallest prize is 50 øre .-Case values:...

). The jury consisted of Mia Gundersen (actress), Jan-Fredrik Karlsen (judge from Idol
Idol (Norway)
Idol: Jakten på en superstjerne is a television show on the Norwegian television channel TV 2, based on the popular British show Pop Idol. The show describes itself as a "Search For A SuperStar". The contestants are first narrowed down to 100 contestants, and then down to 24-50 through several...

) and stand-up comedian Thomas Giertsen
Thomas Giertsen
Thomas Giertsen is a Norwegian producer, stand-up comedian and actor from Oslo.He runs a production company named Feelgood Scene, Film & TV...

. The prize of 500,000 Norwegian kroner plus a scholarship (150,000 NOK) was won by 16-year-old singer Erlend Bratland
Erlend Bratland
Erlend Bratland is a Norwegian singer who is known for winning Norske Talenter, a Norwegian television talent series, on May 9, 2008 at the age of 16.-Background:...

 in the first season
Norske Talenter (series 1)
The 2007 series of Norske Talenter was the first series of the programme. It aired on TVNorge with 16-year old singer Erlend Bratland as the winner. 8-year old hula hoop artist Vegard F...

. The second season
Norske Talenter (series 2)
The 2008 series of Norske Talenter was the first series of this television programme. It began airing on TV 2 February 13, 2008 with audition in Bergen, and the live final was held May 8, 2008. The winners this season, was the hip hop dance group Quick at the ages 17–18...

 which began airing on 13 February 2009, saw Pia Lykke replace Stokstad as host and male hip hop dance quartet Quick
Quick (dance group)
Quick is a hip hop dance group. The group started 2007 and has six members. The crew won the second series of Norway's Got Talent show Norske Talenter.-Background:...

 won the grand prize.

Philippines

ABS-CBN
ABS-CBN
ABS–CBN Corporation is a Philippine-based media conglomerate. It is the Philippines' largest media and entertainment conglomerate. The corporation was the merger of Alto Broadcasting System which at that time owned by James Lindenberg and Antonio Quirino, and the Chronicle Broadcasting Network ...

 franchised the Philippine version of the international talent show series "Got Talent" and called "Pilipinas Got Talent
Pilipinas Got Talent
Pilipinas Got Talent is a Philippine talent show on ABS-CBN that began February 20, 2010. It is based on the Got Talent franchise, a British TV format conceived and owned by Simon Cowell's SYCO company. "Pilipinas" is the Filipino word for Philippines. Anyone can join and showcase their talents...

". Hosted by Luis Manzano
Luis Manzano
Luis Philippe S. Manzano , also known by his nickname Lucky, is a Filipino actor, TV host, VJ and model. He is the son of award-winning actors Edu Manzano and Vilma Santos, from whom he inherited his Chinese features.Manzano started his career as a commercial model for clothing brand, HUMAN...

 and Billy Joe Crawford. It started airing teasers on October 2009. The jury includes the following: comedienne and actress Ai Ai delas Alas(Comedy Queen), TV host Kris Aquino
Kris Aquino
Kristina Bernadette Cojuangco Aquino , commonly known as Kris Aquino, is a Filipino television and movie personality who gained prominence from her talk shows, game shows, and numerous endorsements. Known as the Queen of All Media and Philippines' Queen of Talk, she is the youngest daughter of...

(Queen of all Media) and former ABS-CBN Executive Frederico "FMG" Garcia (One of the Board Members of ABS-CBN).

Similar to other Got Talent series, the Philippine version of the talent show will also feature singers, dancers, magicians, comedians and other performers from all ages.

It started to air on 20 February 2010 and it airs every Saturday and Sunday on ABS-CBN. Season One
Pilipinas Got Talent (season 1)
The first season of Pilipinas Got Talent premiered on ABS-CBN on February 20, 2010. Billy Crawford and Luis Manzano take role as the hosts of the show. The judges include former ABS-CBN executive Freddie "FMG" Garcia, Kris Aquino, and Ai-Ai de las Alas...

 ended on 13 June 2010 with 16-year-old singer Jovit Baldivino crowned the winner.

Season 2
Pilipinas Got Talent (season 2)
The second season of Pilipinas Got Talent premiered on ABS-CBN on February 26, 2011. Billy Crawford, Luis Manzano and Nikki Gil take role as the hosts of the show. Once again, the judges include former ABS-CBN executive Freddie Garcia, Kris Aquino, and Ai-Ai de las Alas...

 started to air on 26 February 2011. Marcelito Pomoy was crowned winner of his talent of singing with a female voice.

Season 3
Pilipinas Got Talent (season 3)
The third season of Pilipinas Got Talent premiered on ABS-CBN on July 9, 2011, two weeks after the grand finals of season two aired. Billy Crawford and Luis Manzano return as the hosts of the show. The three judges from the previous seasons reprise their roles...

 began airing on 9 July 2011.

The up coming season that was promised was the Season 4.

Poland

The Polish version of the show is called Mam Talent! (I've Got Talent!) and premiered on 13 September 2008 on TVN
TVN (Poland)
TVN is a major Polish commercial television network. The broadcaster was co-founded by Polish businessmen Mariusz Walter and Jan Wejchert. The network launched on October 3, 1997. TVN belongs to the TVN S.A...

. The jury features Malgorzata Foremniak
Malgorzata Foremniak
Małgorzata Foremniak is a Polish actress. She is starring in the Polish TV series Na dobre i na złe and has played the role of Ash in Avalon. She took part in Taniec z gwiazdami on TVN. She is now a judge in Polish edition of Got Talent, called Mam talent!.- External links :...

 (Polish actress), Agnieszka Chylińska
Agnieszka Chylinska
Agnieszka Chylińska is a Polish rock singer and columnist.From 1994 until 2003 Chylińska was the vocalist with Polish rock band O.N.A.. She has also been one of the judges in the Polish edition of the Got Talent franchise Mam talent!. She founded a band called Chylińska , which released the album...

 (rock singer) and Robert Kozyra
Robert Kozyra
Robert Tadeusz Kozyra between 1995 and 2009 was the program director and then from 2000 to 2009 executive of Radio Zet. In 2008 he founded radio Chilli Zet. In 2011 he was announced as judge on the fourth series of Poland's Got Talent where he replaced Kuba Wojewódzki.- References :...

 (music critic, journalist, recently - actor).
Historically, the jury sits Kuba Wojewódzki
Kuba Wojewódzki
Jakub Władysław Wojewódzki known as Kuba Wojewódzki is a Polish journalist, TV personality, drummer, and comedian.-Career:Wojewódzki was a judge on the Polish Idol. He also was the Polish representative on the World Idol on 25 December 2003....

 (controversial showman). The hosts are Marcin Prokop
Marcin Prokop
Marcin Prokop is a Polish journalist, television and radio personality, connected with TVN, TVN Turbo and Radio Zet. On TVN he currently presents morning show Dzień Dobry TVN in duo with Dorota Wellman, Poland's Got Talent in duo with Szymon Hołownia and game show Minute To Win It. On TVN Turbo he...

 (a judge from Idol 2004) and Szymon Hołownia (a journalist and columnist).

The first season: The main prize is €100,000. There is also a second prize of PLN
Polish zloty
The złoty , which literally means "golden", is the currency of Poland. The modern złoty is subdivided into 100 groszy . The recognized English form of the word is zloty, plural zloty or zlotys...

100.000. The first, live semi-final shows took place on 18 October 2008. The top prize €100,000 was won by acrobatic duet called Melkart Ball: 31-year-old Jacek Wyskup and 28-year-old Bartłomiej Pankau. Their music was composed by Marcin Pawłowski - seventeen years old music producer. The second prize was won by 11-year-old singer Klaudia Kulawik. The third was AudioFeels - eight-performing vocal music in the style of Vocal Play.

The second season: The main prize is PLN
Polish zloty
The złoty , which literally means "golden", is the currency of Poland. The modern złoty is subdivided into 100 groszy . The recognized English form of the word is zloty, plural zloty or zlotys...

300,000. The first, live semi-final shows took place on 5 December 2009. The top prize was won by 27-year-old accordionist Marcin Wyrostek. The second were 15-year-old singers Legun Brothers (twins), and the third was Filipino Alexander Martinez (who lives in Poland 12 years, also singer). He received PLN
Polish zloty
The złoty , which literally means "golden", is the currency of Poland. The modern złoty is subdivided into 100 groszy . The recognized English form of the word is zloty, plural zloty or zlotys...

5,000 and trip to Philippines with his wife and daughter.

The third season: The main prize is PLN
Polish zloty
The złoty , which literally means "golden", is the currency of Poland. The modern złoty is subdivided into 100 groszy . The recognized English form of the word is zloty, plural zloty or zlotys...

300,000. The last, final show took place on 27 November 2010. All three winers were singers. The top prize was won by 12-year-old Magdalena Welc. The second was Kamil Bednarek, and the third was Piotr Lisiecki. Sabina Jeszka, also singer, received the special prize - PLN
Polish zloty
The złoty , which literally means "golden", is the currency of Poland. The modern złoty is subdivided into 100 groszy . The recognized English form of the word is zloty, plural zloty or zlotys...

 100,000.

The fourth season: 2011 years

Portugal

On 28 January 2007, Aqui Há Talento (There's Talent Here) premiered on public channel RTP1, of RTP
Rádio e Televisão de Portugal
Rádio e Televisão de Portugal, S.A.,commonly known as RTP, is Portugal's public service broadcasting organization. It operates four terrestrial television channels and three national radio channels, as well as several satellite and cable offerings....

, hosted by Sílvia Alberto (former hostess of the Pop Idol
Pop Idol
Pop Idol is a British television series which debuted on ITV on 6 October 2001. The show was a talent contest to decide the best new young pop singer in the United Kingdom, based on viewer voting and participation. Two series were broadcast - one in 2001-02 and a second in 2003...

and Strictly Come Dancing
Strictly Come Dancing
Strictly Come Dancing is a British television show, featuring celebrities with professional dance partners competing in Ballroom and Latin dances. The title of the show suggests a continuation of the long-running series Come Dancing, with an allusion to the film Strictly Ballroom...

Portuguese spinoffs) and judged by actors Joaquim Monchique and Sílvia Rizzo and producer Paulo Dias. The top prize €75,000 was won by breakdancing group Abstractin'.
Now, there are on SIC (channel n. 3) other version: Portugal Tem Talento (Portugal Got Talent), hosted by Bárbara Guimarães
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