America's Got Talent, Simon Cowell's US talent show featuring the Hoff and former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan as judges, has become one of the world's biggest new formats. But Christian Schneider-Sickert, the director of operations and strategy at the show's producer FremantleMedia, has revealed that mistakes were made on the first series that "didn't fit with the core proposition of the brand which is family entertainment". But what could they be? "We had a 70-year-old stripper, which was amusing for younger audiences but doesn't fit with family values," he said. Fair enough. "And a Russian transsexual. It didn't really gel with what the brand stood for." Monkey wonders what the American audience would have made of the Kit Kat Dolls, the drag queen act that got kicked off Britain's Got Talent for allegedly selling sex.
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