Canada's Got Talent

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Canada's Got Talent
Canada's Got Talent Logo.png
Created by Simon Cowell
Directed byJoan Tosoni
Sue Brophey
Harbinder Singh
Presented by
Judges
Country of originCanada
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons4
No. of episodes42
Production
Executive producers
ProducersMark Lysakowski
Paul Becker
Trevor Boris
Cliff Dempster
Jenny Heap
Amy Regan
Amy Blythe-McCuaig
Andre Williamson
Running time30–120 minutes
Production companies SYCOtv
FremantleMedia
Insight Productions
Talkback Thames
McGillivray Entertainment
Rogers Sports & Media
Original release
Network Citytv
ReleaseMarch 4, 2012 (2012-03-04) –
present
Related
America's Got Talent
Australia's Got Talent
Britain's Got Talent

Canada's Got Talent is a Canadian television reality talent show, which debuted on the Citytv network on March 4, 2012. [1] It is part of the global Got Talent franchise.

Contents

As with other series in the franchise, the show is a competition in which entertainers in various fields compete to win a prize. In the first season, the winner won a prize of $100,000 and a Nissan GT-R, an opportunity to perform during Citytv's New Year's Eve bash, a possibility to perform in a venue in Las Vegas and a trip to Trinidad and Tobago. [2] [3] In the second and third seasons, the winner received a cash prize of $150,000. [4] In the third season finale, it was announced that the cash prize would be increased to $1 million for the fourth season. [5]

The first season was won by the Manitoba-based dance troupe Sagkeeng's Finest. Citytv brought back Canada's Got Talent for a second season in 2022. [6] In October 2021, Citytv announced that Lindsay Ell would host, along with Howie Mandel, Lilly Singh, Kardinal Offishall, and Trish Stratus serving as judges. The season premiered in March 2022, and ended in May. It was won by Quebec singer Jeanick Fournier. A third season premiered in March 2023, and was won by dance troupe Conversion.

Format

Auditions

The auditions took place in front of the judges, and a live audience at different cities across Canada. At any time during the audition, the judges would show their disapproval of the act by pressing a buzzer, which lights a large red "X" on the stage. If all the judges pressed their buzzers, the act must end. Voting worked on a majority-of-two basis, where two positive votes from the judges were required.

The Cutdown

In the first season, acts that were accepted past the audition moved on to the Judges Round (also known as "The Cutdown"). This stage of the competition did not feature any audiences, and only contained contestants performing in front of the judges. Out of all the acts that made it to this point, thirty-six made it through to the next round, which was the semi-finals. In the second season, this part of the show was removed.

Semi-finals

The semi-finals and final were broadcast with a varying number of semi-finals, followed by the one final split into two episodes over one night. The remaining acts performed across a number of semi-finals, with the two most popular acts from each semi-final winning a position in the final. Judges could still end a performance early with three X's. The judges were asked to express their views on each act's performance. Phone lines, Twitter, Facebook, texting and online voting platforms opened for a one hour after all acts performed. The public voted for the act they thought were the best. Voters could submit a total of fifty votes (ten in each platform). After the votes were counted, the act that polled the highest number of public votes, was automatically placed in the final. The judges then chose between the second and third most popular acts, with the winner of that vote also gaining a place in the final. All other acts were then eliminated from the competition.

Judges

SeasonHostJudges (in order of first appearance)
1 Dina Pugliese Martin Short Measha Brueggergosman Stephan Moccio —
2 Lindsay Ell Kardinal Offishall Trish Stratus Lilly Singh Howie Mandel
3

Canadian comedian and actor, Martin Short, was announced as the first judge on October 13, 2011. On October 17, opera singer Measha Brueggergosman and musician/composer Stephan Moccio, were announced as the two judges to join Short. Citytv Toronto personality and Breakfast Television host, Dina Pugliese, was the host of the show. [7]

In October 2021, it was announced that Howie Mandel, Lilly Singh, Kardinal Offishall and Trish Stratus would serve as judges for the show, with Lindsay Ell as host. [8]

Season overview

Season 1 (2012)

The first season of Canada's Got Talent aired on Citytv across Canada (and on other TV stations across the country, where there is no Citytv station),[ where? ] starting on March 4, 2012.

Preliminary auditions for the first season of Canada's Got Talent took place during fall 2011, and continued into January 2012. Auditions for the show took place in Winnipeg, Calgary, Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto and Halifax. [1]

Acts chosen to perform in front of the host, judges and a live audience were invited back, starting in Calgary on October 18 and 19. The production tour then went to each of the original cities in October, November, December 2011 and January 2012. [9] [10] Those chosen by the panel of judges went to Toronto for the next rounds, and completed with audience voting, in April and May 2012. [11]

Sagkeeng's Finest received the most votes from Canada, winning the first season of Canada's Got Talent.

Hiatus

In June 2012, Rogers Media president Scott Moore announced that a second season would not be produced, after a "careful consideration of all factors, including the current economic climate". [12]

A Canadian Family's Got Talent competition was held on Citytv's morning show Breakfast Television in 2020, in acknowledgement of COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns across the country, and to cross-promote season 15 of America's Got Talent on Citytv. [13] Simon Cowell was the sole judge of the competition. The contest was won by Toronto-based singing trio CZN. [14]

Season 2 (2022)

On June 8, 2021, Citytv announced that a reboot of Canada's Got Talent would premiere in 2022; Production on the series took place in 2021 at the Avalon Theatre at the Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort in Niagara Falls. [6] [15] [16] On December 31, 2021, it was announced that the revival would premiere in March 2022, [17] which was later specified as March 22. [18] The season was won by Quebecois singer Jeanick Fournier. [19]

Season 3 (2023)

Following the season two finale in May 2022, Citytv announced that it had renewed Canada's Got Talent for a new season to air in 2023; Citytv officially referred to it as the second season of Canada's Got Talent, not acknowledging the 2012 season. [20] [21] The auditions were filmed at the OLG Stage at the Fallsview Casino Resort from October 19 to 23, 2022. The season premiered on March 21, 2023. [22] [23] [24]

Season 4 (2024)

In May 2023, Canada's Got Talent was renewed for a third revived season, premiered on March 19, 2024. [5] In addition to the $1 million prize package, $25,000 will be awarded to each recipient of the golden buzzer, making it the first known edition of the Got Talent franchise to attach a prize to the golden buzzer over and above the privilege of advancing in the competition. [5]

Season summary

SeasonStartFinishWinnerRunners-upHost(s)Judges
1 March 4, 2012May 14, 2012 Sagkeeng's Finest Angry Candy, Freshh Dina Pugliese Stephan Moccio
Measha Brueggergosman
Martin Short
2 March 22, 2022May 17, 2022 Jeanick Fournier Kellie Loder, The Renegades Lindsay Ell Howie Mandel
Lilly Singh
Trish Stratus
Kardinal Offishall
3 March 21, 2023May 16, 2023 Conversion The Cast, The Turnbull Brothers
4 March 19, 2024May 2024

Broadcasting

Because of the various time zones in Canada, only viewers in the provinces and territories east of Manitoba saw the show live (in the Newfoundland, Atlantic and Eastern time zones). All other areas in Canada broadcast the show on a tape delay basis. All Citytv stations aired the show at 8:00 p.m. (in each time zone where there is a Citytv station) with the Toronto station airing the program at 8:00 p.m. Viewers in Newfoundland saw the show live at 9:30 p.m. and viewers in the Atlantic region at 9:00 p.m., because there is no Citytv station in these provinces to broadcast the show at local time. The same process occurred with the results show.

Ratings

Viewership and ratings per season of Canada's Got Talent
SeasonTimeslot (ET)EpisodesFirst airedLast airedTV seasonAvg. viewers
(millions)
DateViewers
(millions)		DateViewers
(millions)
1 Sunday 8:00 p.m.
Monday 8:00 p.m.		22March 4, 2012 (2012-03-04)1.463 [25] May 14, 2012 (2012-05-14)0.459 [26] 2011–12 TBD
2 Tuesday 8:00 p.m.9March 22, 2022 (2022-03-22)0.858 [27] May 17, 2022 (2022-05-17)0.884 [28] 2021–22 TBD
3 Tuesday 8:00 p.m.9March 21, 2023 (2023-03-21)0.539 [29] May 16, 2023 (2023-05-16)TBD 2022–23 TBD

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