“Just like DWTS, no real talent, winners are determined by home voters. “
That’s only true to a point.
Just like AGT and AI, the producers have the last say as to who wins.
Pickup an AGT contract and you’ll find written in it that the producers of the show have the option of determining the winner.
Tie breaker or not..
My wife spotted this several years ago.
On America’s Got Talent, they promise the winner $1 million dollars. At the end of the show they have a disclaimer that reveals that million dollars will be paid out over 40 years.
Didn’t know that. Thanks. So it still basically comes down to talent doesn’t count, the judges votes don’t count. It’s all about popularity. We have DWTS down here in Australia. I like the dancing and all but now I just look to see who’ll win on popularity rather than skill and improvement. Sad.
The story that I have heard is that In Great Britain there was a show called “Pop Idol; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_Idol (just like American Idol only for a Great Britain/UK audience(Simon Cowell owned this one as well)) and the last season a Scottish Girl won(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_McManus) and Simon absolutly HATED her and he folded un his “Pop Idol” tent and set out for a MUCH more Lucritive US Market. And walla “Americn Idol” was “born”.