Britain's Got Talent viewers 'uncomfortable' at how much the show now resembles Black Mirror

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ITV talent show was looking more like a fictional talent show called Hot Shot which was central to the second episode of the first series of Black Mirror.

This was screened on Channel Four back in 2011. What's more, one of the three Hot Shot judges was inspired by Britain's Got Talent boss and head judge Simon Cowell.

The episode, called Fifteen Million Merits, was a vision of a future reality with everyone confined to a life of physical drudgery cycling on exercise bikes and the only way to escape is to enter the talent show and hope to impress the judges.Written by Charlie Brooker and his wife Konnie Huq, it was inspired by Konnie's idea that her technology-fan husband would be happy in a room covered by iPad screens and she conceived a.