Brandon Leakes Makes History as First Ever Spoken Word Poet on 'America's Got Talent' - Watch!

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Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterAlthough NBC’s newest episode of America’s Got Talent ticked down from last week, it still easily was Tuesday’s top-rated and most-watched show in primetime, delivering a 1.1 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and 7.57 million viewers.

Will Thorne Staff Writer“America’s Got Talent” lost around 1 million total viewers from its previous episode, but still led NBC to an easy win on Tuesday night.The talent show scored a 1.1 rating among adults 18-49, which represents a season 15 low and a 4% drop from last episode, which aired June 30. That number is also its lowest ever on Tuesday nights (its Wednesday broadcasts scored a 1.1 on multiple occasions last season).

“America’s Got Talent” has fully adapted to a new reality.

showed the first batch of virtual auditions amid the coronavirus pandemic — as well as the stunning last batch of performances done in-person. Among them was Australian singer Riley, who stunned the judges with his beautiful rendition of Billie Eilish's «idontwannabeyouanymore.» The Australian singer first had Simon Cowell, Sofia Vergara and Howie Mandel (Heidi Klum was out sick) perplexed as he refused to answer Cowell's simple question about his name.

There have been plenty of bizarro acts on the stage of “America’s Got Talent” over the years, but it’s a safe bet viewers haven’t seen anything like the Ninja Twins.

Daft Punk's helmets would surely be blasted into the side of a mountain. But in fact, the robot icons have only have a single No.

NeNe Leakes announced her fans on IG and Twitter that she’s got a video out that also featured Gregg Leakes and her followers love it. Check it out for yourselves below.

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history on Tuesday with just his words. The 27-year-old college counselor hit the stage as the show's first-ever spoken word poet, and his deeply emotional performance earned him Howie Mandel's Golden Buzzer.Before hitting the stage, Leake opened up in a pretaped segment about his childhood, growing up in Stockton, California.«I grew up in a neighborhood where drugs and gang violence were rampant.

Tuesday night’s audience-free version of “America’s Got Talent” broke new ground thanks to the audition of Brandon Leake.

Peter White Television EditorAmerica’s Got Talent is one of the first big-budget non-scripted formats to resume filming following the COVID-19 production shutdown.The NBC show started shooting outside last week in Los Angeles and the Fremantle and Syco-produced show put in a number of interesting processes to ensure a safe return.Creator Simon Cowell and exec producers Sam Donnelly and Jason Raff tell Deadline how they did it.Before the shutdown, the show, which returned on May 26, shot the

the coronavirus outbreak back in March, the show attempted to stave off a shutdown by nixing the audience while taping the last two nights of the audition rounds.In this sneak peek from the upcoming episode, airing next week, Yo delivers his stand-up routine directly to Simon Cowell, Howie Mandel, Sofia Vergara and guest judge Eric Stonestreet — who filled in for Heidi Klum when she had to take time off due to illness.However, Yo didn't let the smaller-than-usual audience keep him from giving it

Heidi Klum out sick — with what turned out to be a cold and not coronavirus, which was a concern for her at the time — star Eric Stonestreet filled in for an exciting night of performances alongside his former co-star, Sofia Vergara.«Unfortunately, Heidi Klum is feeling under the weather today, but luckily Sofia was able to pull a few strings,» host Terry Crews said, before introducing the special guest judge.«I solved the problem for today!» Vergara said excitedly.