America's Got More Talent

ITV2 started showing America's Got Talent on Friday evening, and there's no mistaking why they waited until the British version was out of the way to start broadcasting it: it's simply superior.

First up, it's more than just a singing contest - which sadly is all our version turned into. Alongside the usual wannabe crooners, America's Got Talent featured some pretty good dancing troops, insane magic shows, blatant stripping acts and, best of all, a man who could balance an oven on his chin. Now, that's talent. Anyone can learn to sing, but who's got the grit and determination to learn how to balance white goods on their faces? Who even thinks up such an act?

Another plus point is the lack of kids. The youngest child on Friday night was 11-years-old, but she had the voice the voice of a middle-aged gospel singer. There was no time for, or relying on, cutesy face-pulling or heartstring-pulling tales of woe on the American version, whereas Britain's Got Talent should have been called Britain's Got Sob Stories.

And the panel were pretty good in their individual roles. Piers Morgan out-Cowelling Simon Cowell, David Hasselhoff's just there to like everyone, and Brandy acting as the moral majority, making no disguise of her distaste of any act featuring innuendo or female flesh. All in all, this is how to do it.