Britain's Got Talent

Britain's Got Talent
Genre	Reality, talent show, entertainment
Created by	Simon Cowell & Syco TV
Presented by	Anthony McPartlin Declan Donnelly
Starring	Marcus Bentley
Judges	Simon Cowell Amanda Holden Piers Morgan David Hasselhoff Michael McIntyre Alesha Dixon David Walliams Ashley Banjo Bruno Tonioli
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of series	16
Production
Producer	SYCO TV in association with talkbackTHAMES
Running time	60–90 minutes (including tv adverts)
Original release
Network	ITV
Release	9 June 2007 – present

Britain's Got Talent is a British television show on ITV and part of the Got Talent series. The programme is presented by Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly (colloquially known as Ant & Dec).

There is one series each year; the most recent being the thirteenth series. The four judges of the current series are: Simon Cowell, Alesha Dixon, Amanda Holden and Bruno Tonioli.

The winner of the programme performs in front of the king at The Royal Variety Show and receives a cash prize of £250,000.

Judges and presenters

The show started in 2007 with the original line-up Ant & Dec hosting and Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden and Piers Morgan as judges. The same format was kept until the end of Series 4, when Piers Morgan announced his departure from the show. In series 5, David Hasselhoff and Michael Macintyre joined the panel, but they both only stayed for one series. In 2012, they were replaced by David Walliams and Alesha Dixon. The current panel is made up of Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden, Alesha Dixon and Bruno Tonioli. Stephen Mulhern had been presenting the spin-off show Britain's Got More Talent from series 1 to Series 13, In March 2020, It was announced that Britain's Got More Talent was going to be axed. The show has also featured different guest judges (judges who were not permanent and most likely filled in for an ill or late judge). In 2020, a judge from Dancing on Ice Ashley Banjo replaced Simon Cowell after he had a long injury because Cowell break the part of his back after a electric bike fall, Bruno Tonioli tookover Walliams.

Series
	Presenters			Judges
	1	2	Spin off	1	2	3	4
1	Declan Donnelly	Anthony McPartlin	Stephen Mulhern	Simon Cowell	Amanda Holden	Piers Morgan	—
2
3
4
5						Michael McIntyre	David Hasselhoff
6						Alesha Dixon	David Walliams
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14			—
15
16							Bruno Tonioli

Series overview

Series	Winner	Runner-up
1	Paul Potts	Not announced
2	George Sampson	Signature
3	Diversity	Susan Boyle
4	Spelbound	Twist and Pulse
5	Jai McDowall	Ronan Parke
6	Ashleigh and Pudsey	Jonathan and Charlotte
7	Attraction	Jack Carroll
8	Collabro	Lucy Kay
9	Jules O'Dwyer & Matisse	Jamie Raven
10	Richard Jones	Wayne Woodward
11	Tokio Myers	Issy Simpson
12	Lost Voice Guy	Robert White
13	Colin Thackery	X (Marc Spelmann)
14	Jon Courtenay	Sing Along with Us
15	Axel Blake	Jamie Healey
16	Viggo Venn	Lillianna Clifton