It doesn't seem like 12 months since Britain's Got Talent (ITV 1, 7.45pm) was last on our screens.
That's partly because it wasn't a year ago - the new series starts tonight, the last series started in June last year.
But let's not let small facts like that get in the way of the fact that perhaps the only truly watchable talent show is back on the box.
The only one? I say that because it's the only one which has no preconception of what works. Anyone can turn up, and do anything. On X-Factor, in contrast, people can turn up and sing anything they want but in all likelihood, a youngish, single singer who either appeals to young girls because he looks good or because she can relate to him, will win.
That's not to say it's fixed, that's just saying that it targets a narrower audience to interact with.
Britain's Got Talent, on the other hand, quite literally embraces an open-door policy. All they want is something that will amuse the Queen. And given some of the acts which make the Royal Variety Performance every year, pretty much anyone with a routine quite rightly thinks they've got a chance.
Last year's winner was operatic singer Paul Potts, plucked from an obscure and bad-denture plagued life as a Carphone Warehouse salesman and turned into a chart-topping performer who got into more womens' stockings than your average runner in the London Mayoral Race (as a Christmas present, I hasten to add).
But there was also Connie the toothless four-year-old, that barmy but impressive dance troupe from Liverpool, some bad-ass (sort of) group from London... the list goes on.
Of course, like X Factor, the real fun is the Britons who think they've got talent. Judging by the clip below, plenty of those have turned up again.
The real secret to its success is the fact it's only on for a short period of time. Unlike X-Factor, which never appears to end.
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