<P> "I did the pilot for Britain's Got Talent--which was originally going to be called Paul O'Grady's Got Talent . But I told the producers they were having a joke if they thought I would front a show with that title . The original panel of judges was going to be Simon Cowell, Fern Britton and Piers Morgan . I was the host . Then when I had the row with ITV I was banned from the studios . I remember I rang Simon and told him he had a huge hit on his hands, but there was no way I could do it . I said, if I am banned I have to be banned from everything . I can't be a hypocrite and come in and do this . I had to bow out ." </P> <P> On 12 February 2007, following the success of America's Got Talent the previous year, ITV announced their intentions for a British series of Got Talent . Their announcement revealed changes to the original plan for the programme, with Ant & Dec revealed to be the hosts for the new programme . While Cowell remained as part of the judging panel, the new plan intended for David Hasselhoff and Cheryl Cole . However, both resigned before the programme was due to air, leading to Morgan being part of the panel as originally planned, and actress Amanda Holden joining him and Cowell as a judge; Hasselhoff would later join the panel for the programme's fifth series after being a part of the panel for America's Got Talent, while Cowell later employed Cole to be a replacement for Sharon Osbourne on The X Factor . At the same time, the broadcaster also announced that the show would be accompanied by a sister show on ITV2, entitled Britain's Got More Talent, with Stephen Mulhern as its presenter . </P> <P> The show holds two rounds of auditions for contestants . The first round, referred to as the "open auditions", are held across several different cities around the UK during the Autumn months . The second round, referred to as the "Judges' Auditions", are held the following year during January and February, prior to the broadcast of the show later that year during spring or early summer - these auditions consists of the contestants who made it through the first round, and are held within a select set of cities, which has commonly included Cardiff, Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham and London . For the Judges' Auditions, each site used for these is located within a theatre or convention hall . These sites are primarily chosen for the purpose of having facilities that can handle large volumes of contestants, with each set up into three arrangements when auditions are taking place: a waiting area for contestants to prepare and await their turn to perform, with monitors to allow them to see the performances of other contestants; the wings, where a contestant enters and leaves from, and where friends and family of the contestant can view them from; and the main stage, where the contestant performs their act before the judging panel, who are located in front of the stage . The main stage area is usually modified to include the judges' panel desk, along with a special lighting rig above the stage, consisting of Xs that each have the name of a judge under them . </P> <P> Each contestant that auditions is given a number by the production team and remains in the waiting area until called out into the wings, giving them a certain amount of time to prepare their act . Upon being allowed onto the main stage, they will usually be asked by one of the judges for their name and what they plan to perform, along with other details such as age, occupation, personal background, and what they wish to achieve if they won . After this, they are then given three minutes to conduct their performance before both the judges and a live audience, with some acts being supported by a backing track provided by the production team . If at any time, the judges find the performance to be unconvincing, boring or completely wrong, they may use the buzzer before them, which changes the Xs from white to red; if all the judges press their buzzers, then the performance is immediately over . However, a judge can retract their buzzer's use if they felt they had done so prematurely before witnessing a contest's performance to the end; this is true if the performance appears to look bad, but later turns out to have been good in their eyes . </P>

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