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{{Infobox television
 | show_name           = America's Got Talent
 | image               = [[File:America's Got Talent logo.png|250px]]
 | caption             = Logo since season 4
 | format              =  [[Reality television|Reality talent show]]
 | runtime             = 60-120 minutes
 | company             = [[FremantleMedia North America]]<br>[[Syco|SYCOtv]]
 | distributor         = [[FremantleMedia Enterprises]]
 | creator             = {{flagicon|UK}} [[Simon Cowell]]<br> {{flagicon|UK}} [[Ken Warwick]]<br> {{flagicon|France}} Cécile Frot-Coutaz<br> {{flagicon|UK}} Jason Raff
 | executive_producer  = {{flagicon|UK}} [[Simon Cowell]]<br> {{flagicon|UK}} [[Ken Warwick]]<br> {{flagicon|UK}} Jason Raff
 | presenter           = {{flagicon|USA}} [[Regis Philbin]] (2006) <br> {{flagicon|US}} [[Jerry Springer]] (2007-2008) <br> {{flagicon|USA}} [[Nick Cannon]] (2009-present)  
 | judges              = {{flagicon|UK}} [[Piers Morgan]] (2006-present)<br> {{flagicon|USA}} [[Brandy Norwood]] (2006)<br>{{flagicon|USA}} [[David Hasselhoff]] (2006-2009)<br> {{flagicon|UK}} [[Sharon Osbourne]] (2007–present)<br> {{flagicon|CAN}} [[Howie Mandel]] (2010-present)
 | filmed              = [[Los Angeles, California]]
 | picture_format      = [[480i]] ([[NTSC]]),<br>[[1080i]] ([[HDTV]]) (since 2009)
 | country             = United States
 | network             = [[NBC]]
 | first_aired         = {{start date|2006|6|21}}
 | last_aired          = present
 | num_episodes        = 60
}}
'''''America's Got Talent''''' is a [[United Kingdom|British]]-owned American [[reality television series]] on the [[NBC]] [[television network]]. It is a talent show that features singers, dancers, magicians, comedians and other performers of all ages competing for the advertised top prize of US$1 million. The show debuted in June 2006 for the summer television season. Starting in the third season, the ''Talent'' top prize included US$1 million, payable in a financial annuity over forty years (or the [[present value|present cash value]] of such annuity), and a show as the headliner on the [[Las Vegas Strip]].

The show concept can be traced back to the American talent contest ''[[Major Bowes Amateur Hour]]'', broadcast in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s.{{Citation needed|date=August 2009}} Among its significant features were that it gave an opportunity to talented amateurs or unknown performers, with the results decided by an audience vote. The format is a popular one and has often been reworked for television in the United States and the United Kingdom.

The current incarnation was created by [[Simon Cowell]], and was originally due to be a 2005 British series called ''[[Paul O'Grady]]'s Got Talent''<ref>[http://www.ipo.gov.uk/tm/t-find/t-find-number?detailsrequested=C&trademark=2398862 Trade marks - find by number<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> but was postponed due to O'Grady's acrimonious split with broadcaster [[ITV]]. As such, the American version became the first full series of the [[Got Talent]] franchise.

Despite being heavily involved in the show's production, [[Simon Cowell]] does not appear as a judge. This is due to the conditions of his ''[[American Idol]]'' contract.  However he does appear as a judge on ''[[Britain's Got Talent]]''. ''America's Got Talent'' began airing season one in the United Kingdom on [[ITV1]] on 22 June 2007, [[TV3 Ireland]] on July 2007 and in New Zealand on [[Prime Television New Zealand|Prime Television]] on 9 July 2007. The third season of ''Talent'' premiered on [[ITV2]] beginning 4 June 2009.<ref>[http://www.itv.com/PressCentre/AmericasGotTalent/AmericasGotTalentS3Ep1/default.html America's Got Talent S3 Ep1]</ref>