Geordie duo Anthony ‘Ant’ McPartlin and Delcan ‘Dec’ Donnelly, are back on our screens for the next seven consecutive Saturdays with the third series of BRITAIN’S GOT TALENT. A panel of judges – Amanda Holden, Pier Morgan, and Simon Cowell, joins Ant and Dec. These judges have been to Birmingham, London, and Manchester – spending 3 auditioned and in London 128 auditioned.

A total of 128 auditioned were recalled to London on Saturday 7^th February 2009 for the ‘First Round Call Backs’; all of the acts were very much aware that on 40-acts would be going through the to live semi-finals that will be screened in May.

Series 3 will run for seven consecutive Saturdays before a week of nightly shows will be screened, so that fans can days at each venue and spending 1 day in Glasgow and Wales. In the Glasgow and Wales venues they seen 40 auditioned, Birmingham and Manchester venues they seen 120 pick their finalists, who will then battle it out on Saturday 30^th May 2009 for the ultimate prize – the winner will perform in the Royal Variety Performance.

Britain’s Got Talent made its debut shortly after the conclusion of its U.S. counterpart America’s Got Talent – both of these programmes are the creation of Simon Cowell; who has created the Got Talent series across the globe. ITV announced in February 2007 that the judges for the series were going to be Amanda Holden (who was a late replacement for Cheryl Cole), Piers Morgan (who had just finished being a judge on America’s Got Talent) and of course Mr Simon Cowell. The originally judging panel was to have been Cheryl Cole, David Hasselhoof, and Simon Cowell. As with all other Got Talent programmes ITV 2 has a counterpart show Britain’s Got More Talent, presented by ex-CITV presenter and magician, Stephen Mulhern.

Britain’s Got Talent was suppose to be aired in 2005, but had to be postponed when the originally presenter Paul O’Grady defected to Channel 4 to host his own chat show host.

 Before any auditionees performing in front of the judges, every act tries to seek the seal of approval from the shows producers. After their initial performance, acts are then notified between 2 to 16 weeks later, informing them if they have been successful enough to audition in front of the judges and audience.

Acts that have been successful enough to make the next round of the auditions have just 1 minute to impress the three judges and the audience. This part of the process is very similar to the Gong Show (1976-1989); the only difference is that instead of the judges hitting a gong, they press a buzzer when they have seen enough. Each judge can only press their buzzer once for every act, and once all three judges have pressed their buzzer, the act must stop.

Once the act stops, the judges then give the performer/performers their criticisms, and whether they would like to see the act progress to the next stage. For acts to progress to the next stage they next to get the majority vote. The audience as also allowed to expressed heir opinions, usually by either booing or cheering, which can have a negative or positive impact on the judge’s decision, especially if they are unsure about putting the act through.

 All of the semi-finals and final are all screened live, with the number of acts varying, followed by a live final spilt into two episodes,

Once all the acts have performed, phone lines are then opened for the viewers to vote. Once all the votes have been counted and verified; it is the act with the highest amount of votes from the public who automatically goes through to the grand final or is your winner.