Britain’s Got Talent is “almost certain” to be scrapped for this year, with the next series not likely to air on ITV until spring 2022.
It had been hoped that Simon Cowell’s postponed variety show would be able to hold auditions over the summer and air in the autumn, complete with live finals.
But producers at Thames TV and Cowell’s company Syco, which make the programme, have reluctantly conceded there are no guarantees the hit series can be made safely in a few months’ time.
Now ITV bosses are drawing up schedules for the rest of the year which don’t include BGT, the channel’s second most popular series after I’m a Celebrity, which pulls in up to 10million viewers.
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