Britain's Got Talent
Televised British talent competition
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| 2025 | KSI appears as a guest judge, filling in for Simon Cowell and Bruno Tonioli during the Series 18 auditions. |
| 2025 | The companion show returned after a brief hiatus. |
| 2025 | Britain's Got Talent is contractually set to continue running until this year. |
| 2025 | Series 18 of Britain's Got Talent is scheduled to air on ITV. |
| 2024 | Britain's Got Talent was nominated for Best Talent Show at the 29th National Television Awards, and Ant & Dec won the TV Presenter award. |
| 2024 | ITV announced a new spin-off companion show called BGT Reacts, featuring British content creators reacting to acts from Britain's Got Talent. The show will be released on the ITVX streaming platform in conjunction with the 2024 series of the main talent show. |
| November 2024 | Announcement made that Britain's Got Talent auditions for Series 18 will be entirely filmed in Blackpool for the first time in the show's history, breaking the traditional London filming location. |
| June 2 2024 | The seventeenth series of Britain's Got Talent concluded, with singer Sydnie Christmas declared as the winner, magician Jack Rhodes finishing second, and dance duo Abigail & Afronitaaa placing third. |
| April 20 2024 | The seventeenth series of Britain's Got Talent began airing on ITV1, presented by Ant & Dec and featuring judges Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden, Alesha Dixon, and Bruno Tonioli. |
| March 2024 | First teaser for Britain's Got Talent series 17 was released on social media, confirming the upcoming series on ITV and ITVX. |
| January 2024 | Filming for Britain's Got Talent series 17 auditions began. |
| 2023 | During the fourth semi-final, Noodle was revealed to be series 15 finalist Tom Ball, whose identity was kept secret by production staff throughout the series. |
| 2023 | Britain's Got Talent was nominated for Best Talent Show at the 28th National Television Awards, and Ant & Dec won the TV Presenter award. |
| 2023 | Bruno Tonioli accidentally gave an extra Golden Buzzer mid-act, an unprecedented event in the Got Talent franchise. |
| 2023 | Simon Cowell announced a format change, giving the audience the right to call for a Golden Buzzer for a contestant they felt deserved it. |
| 2023 | Comedian Viggo Venn won the sixteenth series of Britain's Got Talent. |
| 2023 | Series 16 of Britain's Got Talent aired, continuing the long-running talent competition show on ITV. |
| January 2023 | Bruno Tonioli replaces David Walliams as a judge on Britain's Got Talent after Walliams' resignation following criticism of comments made during the 2020 series. |
| 2022 | At the 27th National Television Awards, Britain's Got Talent was nominated for Best Talent Show, David Walliams was nominated for Talent Show Judge, and Ant & Dec won the TV Presenter award. |
| 2022 | The companion show 'Unseen' did not return, marking the first time Britain's Got Talent had no companion show. |
| 2022 | David Walliams announced he would be leaving the show after ten series. |
| December 18 2022 | Britain's Got Talent: The Ultimate Magician aired on television, with Eric Chien winning the competition, Magical Bones as runner-up, and The Witch placing third. |
| October 11 2022 | The Ultimate Magician show was filmed at the ICC Birmingham, featuring magicians from previous BGT series and the Got Talent franchise. |
| October 10 2022 | ITV announced a new one-off special of Britain's Got Talent focused exclusively on magicians, called Britain's Got Talent: The Ultimate Magician. |
| June 5 2022 | Britain's Got Talent series 15 concluded, with stand-up comedian Axel Blake winning the competition, Jamie Leahey finishing second, and Tom Ball placing third. |
| April 16 2022 | Britain's Got Talent series 15 began broadcasting on ITV, with Simon Cowell returning as a judge following his previous series accident. |
| January 2022 | Filming for Britain's Got Talent series 15 began after being postponed from 2021 due to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. |
| 2021 | Britain's Got Talent was nominated for Best Talent Show at the 26th National Television Awards, and Ant & Dec won the TV Presenter award. |
| 2021 | Production of Series 15 was initially postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic government restrictions, with ITV, Thames, and Syco Entertainment deciding to delay the series until conditions improved. |
| 2021 | Initial plans for series 15 production were postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions in the United Kingdom. |
| 2020 | At the 25th National Television Awards, David Walliams won the TV Judge award and Ant & Dec won the TV Presenter award. Britain's Got Talent was nominated for Best Talent Show. |
| 2020 | Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the show's format was modified, with semi-final episodes pre-recorded and aired weekly on Saturday nights, and the live final following a week after the semi-finals. |
| 2020 | Pianist, singer and comedian Jon Courtenay won the fourteenth series of Britain's Got Talent. |
| 2020 | Britain's Got Talent Series 14 aired, marking the show's continuation during the COVID-19 pandemic period. |
| December 25 2020 | The Britain's Got Talent Christmas Spectacular aired, hosted by Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly. The judging panel included Amanda Holden, Alesha Dixon, David Walliams, and Ashley Banjo, with Simon Cowell recovering from a back injury. |
| December 1 2020 | ITV confirmed a one-off Christmas special of Britain's Got Talent featuring the most memorable and talented acts from the past fourteen series, despite concerns about filming during the COVID-19 pandemic's second lockdown. |
| September 2020 | Simon Cowell was absent from the series 14 live rounds and Christmas Spectacular due to a back injury, with Ashley Banjo replacing him. |
| August 2020 | Simon Cowell sustains a serious injury, leading to his absence from the remainder of the series. Ashley Banjo is brought in as a guest judge to replace him. |
| 2019 | Britain's Got Talent was again nominated for Best Talent Show at the 24th National Television Awards. David Walliams won the TV Judge award, and the show won Best Entertainment Programme at the 2019 British Academy Television Awards. |
| 2019 | Deadly Games knife-throwing act underwent a partner change, with the original partner being replaced by the winner of Poland's Got Talent series 8. |
| 2019 | A participant (later revealed to be Marc Spelmann) enters the competition under anonymity, having been a semi-finalist in the previous year's contest, to emphasize values of hope and perseverance. |
| 2019 | Extreme magicians Brotherhood are forced to withdraw from the semi-finals due to health and safety concerns about their performance, with their spot being offered to a previously eliminated act. |
| 2019 | An unnamed dance troupe withdraws from the semi-finals following the death of one of their members, with their original audition not being broadcast. |
| October 7 2019 | Simon Cowell announced that Britain's Got More Talent would be shifted to online platforms to adapt to changing viewing habits. |
| August 2019 | Filming of the spin-off talent competition concludes, with production staff editing footage for weekly broadcast towards the end of the Summer TV schedule. |
| August 31 2019 | Britain's Got Talent: The Champions premiered on ITV, introducing a spin-off series featuring notable acts from the Got Talent franchise's history. |
| July 2019 | Filming of the pre-recorded spin-off began, using the same presenters and panel of judges as the regular Britain's Got Talent show. |
| July 2019 | Simon Cowell launches Britain's Got Talent: The Champions, a spin-off competition inspired by America's Got Talent: The Champions, with production green-lit by ITV. |
| June 2 2019 | The final episode of Britain's Got More Talent aired on ITV2, concluding its run as a television companion show. |
| June 2 2019 | Thirteenth series of Britain's Got Talent concludes, with 89-year-old singer Colin Thackery being crowned the winner, making him the oldest winner in the show's history. |
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