ITV Programming Thread

Yes, not least our most successful entry of all time!

It's not up to you, it's up to Simon Cowell and is none of your business.

On to more important matters, what would have happened if the comedian won? Would he have done his act again? I expect most comedian's routines wouldn't stand up to being performed to the same audience within the an hour of them first hearing it.

You'll taking the name too literally. You could take the name to mean as a nation 'we have talented individuals amongst us', which would have certainly been the case with last nights winners. Or 'British Television Audiences Have Talent to view', at the end of the day it's only called Britain's Got Talent because it's a good name that makes the show sound massive, the pilot was named 'Paul O'Grady's Got Talent' after all.

I think it's heart warming to know a non-British act could win Britain's Got Talent, and we as a nation aren't as petty about were they come from as people might think. It would be silly for television audiences to be deprived of a great act because of the title of the show and the public choose not care about technicalities.

The title of the show, just represents that fact it's a British TV programme and it pulls the audiences in, it doesn't explain the fine detail of the rules.

On that rather poor other point, it has been alluded to Eurovision is full of singers every year that represent nations they are not from originally and we also won in 1997 with such an act.

You mean like Katrina & The Waves.

Err... I'm not sure I believe bruce12345 is for real - but shall I tell him?

Katrina from Katrina and the Waves, who won in 1997 WAS American.

Gina G who represented the UK in 1996 is Australian, as is Olivia Newton John, who represented the UK in 1974...

There's no rule that you have to be from the country/broadcaster you are representing to enter Eurovision. Nanne Grönvall (famous Swedish singer) was on the shortlist to represent the UK a while back, as was Esther Hart (who represented the Netherlands instead).

Similarly a number of other countries in Eurovision have entered and/or won with non-native performers (and/or composers). Celine Dion is Canadian, but won for Switzerland. Corinne Hermes who won for Luxembourg in 1983 was from France.

Apart from to the English of course

There is NOTHING stopping anyone from the British isles going to France, Germany etc and appearing on there local Got Talent series, which people have done.

A British guy won the French version of The X Factor a few years back.

And didn't one (a pianist I think) do quite well on the Chinese version of Got Talent.

Essentially the show is open to anyone who can live or work in the country - hence pretty much anyone from the EU can apply. If we're getting technical on the name then Jordan O'Keefe shouldn't have been on the show either.

It strange Jordan O'Keefe won the public vote, yet on the final the person he beat got a lot more votes than him.

Steve Hewlett 4th – 14.7%
Jordan O'Keefe 6th – 3.7%

I believe a lot of French people cross the channel to enter BGT as there isnt a French equivalent.

Not True, French has had seven series already.