Ok, it had to be done. Who's been watching this then? First semi last night, and I have to say I was impressed. My memory of last year is that there was usually one act in the semis that you thought deserved to be in the final, sometimes there was a second, but sometimes not. Even the final had at least a couple of pretty bad acts. In fact, last year's comp could pretty much be accused of being more like Britain's Not Got Talent.

Last night's semi, was great though I thought. There was.......

ThreeBee - Bollywood dance group who were ok. Judges told them they had a shot at the final afterwards, but that was before they saw the other acts....
Olivia ??? - 14 year old singer. Thought she sang very well, as good as some of the other young singers they've had in the past.
Kevin Cruise - awful.
????? - guy who swallows things and regurgitates them. Slightly gross, sounds rubbish, but he did a trick where he took Amanda Holden's engagement ring and swallowed it. Then took an open padlock (I think, might have been locked) and swallowed that. Then swallowed the key. Regurgitated the padlock, which was locked, with the ring locked in it. Then brought the key up. Then, when Ant and Dec were doing the "This is the number to call..." bit, he suddenly coughed and regirgitated his mobile phone (which he must have swallowed before he came out. Brilliant!!
Tobias ??? - Dancer. Very good moves. Must be the best solo dancer they've ever had.
Sean Sheehan - cut wood and sang. Crap.
Spelbound - Acrobats who were absolutely incredible.

I thought Olivia, swallow guy, Tobias and Spelbound would all be worthy of a place in the final. My personal votes would have gone to Spelbound and swallow guy (just ahead of Tobias as there will be other dance acts in the final, but nothing like swallow guy). In the end, Spelbound got through outright, and Tobias beat Olivia on the judges vote.

Can't believe you think Kevin Cruise was good. He was awful!!!

Yeah, I've discovered at work that I missed him putting the phone in his mouth. The consensus here is that he must have swallowed a ring in a padlock prior to coming out, so Amanda was in on it. She is supposedly an actress after all!!

And also, Diversity were fantastic. Awesome. But I'm suspecting that Susan Boyle will perform at the final. Surely that's not right, she didn't even win!

I agree that last nights final was very loaded there were definitely 4 acts worthy of a place in the final. Kevin Cruise and The Wood guy were horrendous!

My favourites were Spellbound and Stevie Starr.

Shame on you, I watched a few episodes of that and it was chronic. Do you really still watch it?!?!
You could always just escape to the computer room and leave Emily to it.

There are a couple of things that are really beginning to annoy me about the show:

1.The ridiculous amount of adverts breaks.
2.The big fuss they make about the entrance of the judges.

Just get on with the talent!!!!

Ben, agree with you about the ad breaks. Basically, they've allocated 90 minutes to the show. Take off 5 minutes at the start and the end, that leaves 80 minutes. You'd expect 6 ad breaks during that time (2 per half hour), with say 4 minutes per break being generous, so 24 minutes in total. That leaves 56 minutes for 8 acts to perform, which is 7 minutes per act. They don't need that long. Essentially, it's a 1 hour show that they're dragging out to 90 minutes.

I saw some of the acts last night. Missed Taboo, and not sure who they are from your comments. Saw some of Neil and he sounded good. Missed Ruby Girls and Connected. Kev Orkian was quite good, although I thought he should have been more upbeat. If you think about musical performers, whether it's cheesy pop, rock, whatever, you start a performance with an upbeat number, something to get the crowd going. You don't start with a quiet song. I think that's where he went wrong, but he is pretty good. Saw the last 3 acts, and I'd mostly agree, except I thought the dog act got better towards the end, and I'd score Maxxie Oliver 1/10 just for having the guts to turn up.

Overall, looks like a much worse semi than Monday night. I missed the voting show though. Who went through, who did the judges have to choose between??

Neil should have gone through last night, although I don't think any of the acts are good enough to win.

Spelbound will win the final.

Not sure about Amanda being in on the whole padlock-ring thing, but I suppose it's possible... more plausible than a 3rd mini-arm inside the guy's stomach to lock the ring in the padlock! Although maybe he swallowed a midget before the show, and the midget is sat inside him doing the tricks? Or maybe he's an alien?

Really??

I think Paul Burling will need to do something really good to get through outright. I suspect the voting public are more likely to go for dancing/singing than his type of act.

I think Peridot will be in the top 3. Is Christopher Stone the young lad who sings soprano? Could be that his vote and Chloe's are split if they both do well. I wouldn't rule out The Arrangement getting into the top 3 either. I liked Paul in the audition, but I could see him missing out completely. A lot will depend on how they perform tonight I think.

I know, I was just messing around. I agree it looks like a better heat. Then dance and singing votes in danger of being split maybe, unless one is clearly better than the other??