Americas Got Talent News

 
by  Arthur Perkins   
 
AGT4 is inherently a fine show. Televised large-scale talent competitions started with Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts in 1949. America's Got Talent has taken it to a new level. I want to summarize my thoughts about the judges, Nick Cannon and the stage technicians for your benefit. The stage technicians have the most difficult job, as they have to operate on split-second timing and make sure their setups will work as they did in rehearsals. I give them one huge thumbs up. Nick Cannon started well, but he has not

by  Arthur Perkins

Well, AGT4 fans, we are finally at the end of the road starting in Seattle, Houston,
Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta and Miami, through Las Vegas and ending in Hollywood.
The winner of this competition get to headline a Las Vegas show in late October plus
gets $1,000,000. There are some very good acts left in this competition and there
are some excellent acts. I will give you my take on which acts make which category.
America votes right now to decide who wins.

There was

by  Arthur Perkins
 
Tonight restored my faith a bit in America's ability to vote in the right acts. This show went an unbelievable 70 minutes for no discernable reason . There was no content for the first 20 minutes of the show. Why wasn't it reduced to 10 minutes? Whoever is directing this program should be forced to watch the first 20 minutes over and over again for 24 hours.  Let's get to it.
 
The first pairing was Footworkingz and Hairo Torres. I had expected both of these acts

by  Arthur Perkins
 
Hello, AGT fans. We are getting down to the end of AGT4. The finals should be next week. Another 10 acts competed for the 5 (imagine that, they're not playing games about this) slots to fill out the finals. Nick Cannon announced that the judges have no role in deciding any results this week. The act voted #5 by the viewing public will be #5.
 
1. Recycled Percussion - these guys bashed away at high speed and with precision, but I just don't see them at the top

by  Arthur Perkins   

Are you up for another evening of seeing how America voted for less deserving teams? It's about to happen before your eyes. Read on. The only performances were by Miss Piggy, Kermit the Frog, 4 chickens, and David Hasselfhoff (no, he was not one of the chickens) singing and dancing to "Feeling Good" with the Hoffettes as backup dancers. Nick Cannon called it Hofficial to parody David's use of Hoff- as a prefix to modify (and mangle) many common words. However, the Hoff is a really good singer and OK