{"id":747,"date":"2012-06-19T18:16:39","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T22:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=747"},"modified":"2021-02-05T17:13:07","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T22:13:07","slug":"americas-got-talent-seasons-1-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/americas-got-talent-seasons-1-7\/","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s Got Talent (seasons 1 &#8211; 7)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;One thing about our show is that we get to see these gems because there&#8217;s no other stage for them than ours.&#8221; &#8212; Sharon Osbourne<\/p>\n<p><strong>America&#8217;s Got Talent<\/strong> seasons 1 &#8211; 7, aired in 2006-12<\/p>\n<p>This show is, of course, extremely similar to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/canadas-got-talent-season-1\/\"><strong>Canada&#8217;s Got Talent<\/strong><\/a>. It&#8217;s the same format: Contestants get 90 seconds to wow the 3 judges, unless all the judges hit their buzzers. The judges vote and if at least 2 of them vote yes the contestants get to go on to the next round. In succeeding rounds viewers at home can vote for their favourite contestants.<\/p>\n<p>I love how normal people get up on stage and show their amazing talent. I&#8217;m a fan of the audition shows &#8212; once the contestants have been whittled down to a group of very talented people, I&#8217;m not as interested in which one of them people vote for. The auditions for this season have ended and the whittling down begins next week.<\/p>\n<p>In season 2 the big winner was a ventriloquist, Terry Fator, which I thought was great &#8212; Fator combines ventriloquism and singing. Two acts from the show made their way into my music collection. I have At Last&#8217;s album &#8220;Slow It Down.&#8221; And the Eriam Sisters&#8217; song &#8220;I Want You Back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some of the acts you&#8217;ll want to see in season 7:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Earth harp: A guy built an instrument whose wires extend from the stage up to the balcony<\/li>\n<li>Glow-in-the-dark dinosaurs<\/li>\n<li>Speed painters<\/li>\n<li>The crossbow<\/li>\n<li>A ventriloquist whose &#8220;dummy&#8221; is his real live dog<\/li>\n<li>A mind reader (I have no idea how he did it)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>plus amazing singers, dancers, magicians, jugglers, and at least one comedian.<\/p>\n<p>The current judges are Sharon Osbourne &#8212; a music producer, star of the reality show <strong>The Osbournes<\/strong>, and perhaps most famously wife of Ozzy Osbourne. Howie Mandel &#8212; a comedian, actor, and game show host. And Howard Stern &#8212; a radio personality, as well as author and TV host. The host is Nick Cannon &#8212; an actor, record producer, and husband of Mariah Carey. Cannon is a bit silly &#8212; or maybe the producers require him to be &#8212; but he can also be funny.<\/p>\n<p>Created by Simon Cowell (<strong>Canada&#8217;s Got Talent<\/strong>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;One thing about our show is that we get to see these gems because there&#8217;s no other stage for them than ours.&#8221; &#8212; Sharon Osbourne America&#8217;s Got Talent seasons 1 &#8211; 7, aired in 2006-12 This show is, of course, extremely similar to Canada&#8217;s Got Talent. It&#8217;s the same format: Contestants get 90 seconds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[5,52,11],"class_list":["post-747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-shows","tag-review","tag-talent-show","tag-tv-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17424,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions\/17424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}