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America's Got Talent

Genres: Reality, Reality Competition, Variety
Broadcast on: SABC2, e.tv, M-Net, M-Net Series Reality, M-Net Series, Vuzu, Mzansi Magic, M-Net Family, eExtra

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Seasons

Season 12

Channel Premiere Finale TX Time Episodes
NBC 30 May 2017 20 Sep 2017 Tuesdays, 20h00 - 22h00 23
M-Net 25 Aug 2017 20 Oct 2017 Weekdays, 18h00 - 19h00 23
Vuzu 26 Nov 2017 15 Apr 2018 Sundays, 18h00 (double bill) 23


Season 12

The 12th season of America's Got Talent is back with creator and judge Simon Cowell, Mel B, Heidi Klum and Howie Mandel.  Supermodel, entrepreneur and CEO Tyra Banks joins the team as host, and the series returns to Los Angeles with live shows from the famed Dolby Theatre.

With the search open to acts of all ages and talents, America's Got Talent has brought the variety format back to the forefront of American culture by showcasing unique performers from across the country.

The series is a true celebration of creativity and talent, featuring a colorful array of singers, dancers, comedians, contortionists, impressionists, jugglers, magicians, ventriloquists and hopeful stars, all vying to win America's hearts and the $1-million prize.

Last season's winner Grace VanderWaal released her first EP, titled Perfectly Imperfect, which became the highest-selling EP of 2016, demonstrating the power of America's Got Talent to create an instant star. Also, her Got Talent audition video was one of the top trending videos of the year and currently has over 150-million views.

Past America's Got Talent highlights include first-ever magician winner in 2014, Mat Franco, who went on to headline the America's Got Talent Live stage show as well as the Magic Reinvented Nightly stage show - both held in Las Vegas.

Another fan favourite was the Season 7 winner Olate Dogs in 2012. Led by Richard Olate and his son Nicholas, this high-energy, fast-paced dog act was an audience favorite filled with unbelievable pet tricks.

In 2011, sentimental favourite and West Virginia jazz singer Landau Eugene Murphy Jr. beat out thousands of acts to take home the coveted $1-million grand prize. Prior to that, Mississippi-born soul singer Michael Grimm was crowned the winner of a spectacular Season 5, which also brought national attention to 10-year-old classical singer and phenom Jackie Evancho, who has gone on to release several best-selling albums.

In that same season, the show also discovered Lindsey Stirling, a hip-hop violinist. She has since gone on to release three albums, with her second album, Shatter Me, ranking as the No. 2 dance/electronic album and No. 1 classical album on Billboard's 2015 year-end charts. Her third album, Brave Enough, was released in 2016.

The second season of America's Got Talent introduced audiences to the incredibly talented Terry Fator, a ventriloquist, singer and comedian from Dallas who has had a headlining show in Las Vegas since 2007 and currently performs at the Mirage Hotel.

The Got Talent format, created by Simon Cowell and co-owned by Syco Entertainment and FremantleMedia globally, holds the Guinness World Record as the most successful reality TV format of all time, airing in 186 countries and commissioned in 68 territories worldwide. Around the world, more than 500 million people watch Got Talent every year.

Britain's Got Talent has remained the U.K.'s number one entertainment show since it first launched in 2007 and discovered global singing sensation Susan Boyle, who has sold 23-million records to date.

Broadcast Notes

Season 12 originally aired on M-Net on weekdays at 18h30. It moved half an hour earlier to weekdays at 18h00 from Monday 4 September, 2017.


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