Brits More Talented Than Yanks?
EW wonders: ‘Taking things from the Brits and making them our own has historically gone one of two ways: the “Coupling” way or the “Office” way. “America’s Got Talent” has taken the middle path on this: It’s a modest, inoffensive summer hit here for NBC, but has yet to take pop culture by storm the way its cousin “American Idol” clearly does. And now its progenitor, “Britain’s Got Talent,” has suddenly become an online phenom — last week it was Susan Boyle (click here to see new photos), this week it’s little Shaheen Jafargholi, and it’s only the first round of auditions — which [forces the question]: Are Brits inherently more talented than Americans?’
