Britain's Got Talent

Britain's Got Talent was a TV talent competition. In 2011, a girl from Colchester, Nina, was kicked off after allegations that she poisoned another contestant. (TV: Closing Time)

Behind the scenes
The show was featured in the National Television Awards Sketch 2011, where while the Eleventh Doctor tried to drop off Dermot O'Leary at the National Television Awards in 2011, he accidentally overshot by a year. Dermot and the Doctor saw the judges of Britain's Got Talent (at the time of series 5 in 2011): Amanda Holden, David Hasselhoff and Michael McIntyre. Holden criticised the Doctor's TARDIS, saying it was "just the same thing again", "an appearing, disappearing, police telephone box". The Doctor nervously apologised, explaining to Dermot that she would become Prime Minister. He said that in "the Holden Years" she was notorious for pressing "that big red button". The "big red button" is used on the show to reject an act.

Ant & Dec served as the show's hosts.

David Walliams was part of the judging panel starting with series 6 in 2012.

Doctor Who-based acts have appeared on Britain's Got Talent on three occasions. In 2012, Martyn Crofts performed a Dalek impression with a saucepan on his head. In 2016, a man named Paul in a Davros costume was part of an act called The Deep Space Deviants. Most recently, in 2019, Ron the Dalek sang.