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By Gary Strauss, USA Today
As if TV’s oddest reality show competition couldn’t get any weirder, an accordion-playing pooch and a flaming pizza juggler are about to join the competition on NBC’s America’s Got Talent (Tuesday, 9 ET/PT).
Pup, a 7-year-old mutt, and Ohio pizzeria owner Patt Miller are among 12 new acts chosen from 20,000 audition YouTube videos submitted for inclusion on the show, which has traditionally relied on live auditions, including some 70,000 this year.
The YouTube candidates were culled to about 40, then winnowed to 11 by AGT producers and show judges Howie Mandel, Piers Morgan and Sharon Osbourne. YouTube viewers selected Pittsburgh’s Jackie Evancho - a 10-year old opera singer - to round out Tuesday’s competition.
“It was like finding a needle in a haystack,” says producer Jason Raff.
The live show - from which four acts will emerge to join this season’s 24 semifinalists vying for $1 million and a Las Vegas contract - could have even more of a train-wreck quality than past episodes of summer’s top-rated series. “Bypassing the traditional audition experience and putting people we’ve never met before on live TV is an experiment,” Raff says. “It’s kind of scary.”
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