America's Got Talent 

A weekly talent competition where an array of performers -- from singers and dancers, to comedians and novelty acts -- vie for a $1 million cash prize.

Creators:

Simon Cowell, Jason Raff, Ken Warwick

Stars:

Howie Mandel, Nick Cannon, Sharon Osbourne

Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy. Another 4 wins & 34 nominations.

Cast

Series cast summary:
Howie Mandel	...	Himself - Judge / ... 232 episodes, 2010-2018
Nick Cannon	...	Himself - Host 231 episodes, 2009-2016
Sharon Osbourne	...	Herself - Judge 162 episodes, 2007-2012
Piers Morgan	...	Himself - Judge / ... 133 episodes, 2006-2015
Melanie Brown	...	Herself - Judge / ... 126 episodes, 2011-2018
Heidi Klum	...	Herself - Judge / ... 126 episodes, 2011-2018
Howard Stern	...	Himself - Judge 117 episodes, 2012-2015

Storyline

A weekly talent competition where an array of performers -- from singers and dancers, to comedians and novelty acts -- vie for a $1 million cash prize.

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Plot Keywords:

competition | comedian | dancer | talent contest | dance group | 

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Genres:

Family | Game-Show | Music | Reality-TV

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Certificate:

TV-PG

Details

Official Sites:

NBC.com Official Facebook

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

21 June 2006 (USA)

Also Known As:

Untitled Simon Cowell/Las Vegas Project

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$10,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

FremantleMedia, Cinema Vehicle Services, FremantleMedia North America

Technical Specs

Runtime:

60 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The youngest winner was Bianca Ryan, at age 11, in season 1 as of December 2016. Grace Vanderwaal and Darci Lynne Farmer are both the second youngest at age 12,winning season 11 and twelve respectively. They are the only three female winners currently.

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Quotes

Simon Cowell: Do you know why I started making shows like this years ago? Because I worked with a lot of really stupid people in the music business, I'm serious, who actually thought people would buy an album based on your weight. It's ridiculous!

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Connections

Referenced in Tosh.0: Jackie B. (2015)

User Reviews

America's got talent, but no taste if this drek is back

Are we finally about done with this reality show BS? I know they are incredibly cheap to produce and don't require much in talent salaries or any writer salaries to speak of, but at what cost? Have we really become what the movie "Idiocracy" predicts for American culture? This show is the absolute bottom of the barrel. It is television at its lowest point ever. Remember when NBC aired shows like "Hill Street Blues," "Cheers," "St. Elsewhere," "Night Court," "The Cosby Show," "Seinfeld," etc? Many of those shows would appear on the same night! What the Hell happened to network programming since then? We did.

Well, tastes change but the people who complain about TV content don't. It's hard to put a real drama or comedy that suits modern sensibilities on TV anymore. If you do something real, adult and intelligent it either turns off short attention-spanned teens or offends the Christian Right who literally comprise 99 percent of all complaints about content on network TV (true, look that up).

Cable, Tivo and the internet are making it increasingly less lucrative to advertise on TV. That means ad rates have gone down. That means TV shows have to be made for less money. And that means networks will put on the cheapest poop they can get away with and still sell soap in the mid-west. And of course, that means "America's Got Talent" season two.

So, if you're tired of this worthless "reality TV" crap and you want a truly funny sitcom or an intelligent, engrossing drama that addresses relevant issues of today, either get HBO or complain to the Parents Television Council and tell them to stop complaining every time something interesting happens on TV. Next, contact your local affiliates and ask them to pass on the word to the network that you're willing to sit through commercials if they'll just start paying actors and writers to make real TV again.

There, I'm done. Just thought it needed to be said.