Everyone’s favorite reality competition show is back for another season, NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” is renewing all four of its judges for season 12 – Simon Cowell, Mel B, Heidi Klum and Howie Mandel – as well as host Nick Cannon.
Cowell, who created the “Got Talent” format in the U.K., will be returning for his second season. Mel B and Klum will each return for their fifth season, with Mandel back for his eighth. It will be the ninth season for Cannon.
“America’s Got Talent” or its other “Talent” formats is shown in 190 markets worldwide with more than 500 million global viewers since it began airing in 2006. “Britain’s Got Talent” is the U.K.’s highest rated entertainment show of the century and in 2009, discovered the global singing sensation, Susan Boyle, who has sold 19 million records to date.
The winner of Season 11, which is currently airing, will receive a $1 million prize and a chance for a Las Vegas show.
