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Mam talent! is the Polish
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 version of the Got Talent series. The aim of the program is to choose the most talented person from people showing their talents. The winner of the show in the first series got
Euro
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100,000, in the second and third series - 300,000 zloty
Polish zloty
The złoty , which literally means "golden", is the currency of Poland. The modern złoty is subdivided into 100 groszy . The recognized English form of the word is zloty, plural zloty or zlotys...

s. Prizes for people from the second and third place are chosen by producers of the shows. The show is hosted by Marcin Prokop and Szymon Hołownia, and the judges are Agnieszka Chylińska
Agnieszka Chylinska
Agnieszka Chylińska is a Polish rock singer and columnist.From 1994 until 2003 Chylińska was the vocalist with Polish rock band O.N.A.. She has also been one of the judges in the Polish edition of the Got Talent franchise Mam talent!. She founded a band called Chylińska , which released the album...

, Małgorzata Foremniak and Robert Kozyra
Robert Kozyra
Robert Tadeusz Kozyra between 1995 and 2009 was the program director and then from 2000 to 2009 executive of Radio Zet. In 2008 he founded radio Chilli Zet. In 2011 he was announced as judge on the fourth series of Poland's Got Talent where he replaced Kuba Wojewódzki.- References :...

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Judges and Presenters

Years Host Series
2008-present Marcin Prokop
Marcin Prokop
Marcin Prokop is a Polish journalist, television and radio personality, connected with TVN, TVN Turbo and Radio Zet. On TVN he currently presents morning show Dzień Dobry TVN in duo with Dorota Wellman, Poland's Got Talent in duo with Szymon Hołownia and game show Minute To Win It. On TVN Turbo he...

 
1–present
2008-present Szymon Hołownia  1-present

Years Judges Series
2008–present Agnieszka Chylińska
Agnieszka Chylinska
Agnieszka Chylińska is a Polish rock singer and columnist.From 1994 until 2003 Chylińska was the vocalist with Polish rock band O.N.A.. She has also been one of the judges in the Polish edition of the Got Talent franchise Mam talent!. She founded a band called Chylińska , which released the album...

 
1–present
2008–present Małgorzata Foremniak  1–present
2011-present Robert Kozyra
Robert Kozyra
Robert Tadeusz Kozyra between 1995 and 2009 was the program director and then from 2000 to 2009 executive of Radio Zet. In 2008 he founded radio Chilli Zet. In 2011 he was announced as judge on the fourth series of Poland's Got Talent where he replaced Kuba Wojewódzki.- References :...

 
4-present
2008–2010 Kuba Wojewódzki
Kuba Wojewódzki
Jakub Władysław Wojewódzki known as Kuba Wojewódzki is a Polish journalist, TV personality, drummer, and comedian.-Career:Wojewódzki was a judge on the Polish Idol. He also was the Polish representative on the World Idol on 25 December 2003....

 
1–3

Qualifications

In spring there were preliminary castings (not broadcast on TV) which decided about qualifying participants for the usual presentations with jury, audience and cameras. In the second stage of qualifications, which were hold in five Polish towns (Katowice
Katowice
Katowice is a city in Silesia in southern Poland, on the Kłodnica and Rawa rivers . Katowice is located in the Silesian Highlands, about north of the Silesian Beskids and about southeast of the Sudetes Mountains.It is the central district of the Upper Silesian Metropolis, with a population of 2...

, Gdańsk
Gdansk
Gdańsk is a Polish city on the Baltic coast, at the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area.The city lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay , in a conurbation with the city of Gdynia, spa town of Sopot, and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the...

, Poznań
Poznan
Poznań is a city on the Warta river in west-central Poland, with a population of 556,022 in June 2009. It is among the oldest cities in Poland, and was one of the most important centres in the early Polish state, whose first rulers were buried at Poznań's cathedral. It is sometimes claimed to be...

, Wrocław and Warsaw
Warsaw
Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...

) 4000 people/groups appeared. The jury qualified 130 for the next stage. Decisions by the jury are made by giving a positive or negative vote. To be qualified, the participant needs to have two positive votes. If any of the people from the jury thinks that someone's performance wasn't good, he presses a button which switches on a red cross (3 red crosses mean end of performance). From the 130 people jury chose the best 40, who appeared in the semi-finals.

Semi-finals

Participants of five semi-finals show their talents in live programs in front of jury (the same as in qualifications), cameras and audience. In every semi-final 8 people/groups of the 40 appear. Jury votes in the same way like before, but the decision about participants going to the next stage is made by viewers, who can call or send a SMS
SMS
SMS is a form of text messaging communication on phones and mobile phones. The terms SMS or sms may also refer to:- Computer hardware :...

 to vote for a participant. The participant who gets the most votes is going to the final stage, and from the two people who got the second and third place in viewers' voting one person which goes to the final is chose by the jury. From the second season of the show the results of incomplete votings are shown on the website of the show. The complete results are shown after the broadcast of program ends.

Final stage

10 participants take part in the final stage, two from each semi-final. The voting is the same as in semi-finals, but there is other way of choosing the winner. At first, people who got the three first places are read in random way. Then the person's who got the third place name is read. At the end, name of the winner is read by hosts and they give him cheque for 300,000 zlotys (100,000 zlotys for person who got the second place is given after the program). After the ceremony of awarding the winner again makes his show.

Winners

Season Person/group Talent
I season Melkart Ball acrobatics
Acrobatics
Acrobatics is the performance of extraordinary feats of balance, agility and motor coordination. It can be found in many of the performing arts, as well as many sports...

II season Marcin Wyrostek playing on accordion
Accordion
The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....

III season
Mam talent! (series 3)
The third series of Mam talent! premiered on Saturday, September 4, 2010 at 20:00 on TVN. It consisted of seven auditions' episodes, five semi-finals and the final, which aired on November 27, 2010. The winner of the competition was Magda Welc, 11-year old singer and she gained 300 000 PLN. The...

Magda Welc singing
Singing
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

IV season
Mam talent! (series 4)
The fourth series of Mam talent! began airing on TVN on 3 September 2011 and ended on 26 November 2011. The winner of the show was Kacper Sikora, who received PLN 300,000. Małgorzata Foremniak and Agnieszka Chylińska returned as judges. They were joined by a new judge, Robert Kozyra. He replaced...

 http://mamtalent.tvn.pl.

Series 1

I season of Mam talent! was broadcast by TVN
TVN (Poland)
TVN is a major Polish commercial television network. The broadcaster was co-founded by Polish businessmen Mariusz Walter and Jan Wejchert. The network launched on October 3, 1997. TVN belongs to the TVN S.A...

 from September 13 to November 29, 2008. It consisted of 5 qualifications episodes, 5 semi-finals and 1 final (totally - 11 episodes, which were broadcast every week on Saturdays from 20:35 to 22:20, only the final episode to 22:35). Winner of the first season was the acrobatics duo Mellkart Ball, Klaudia Kulawik took the second place, and the third place was taken by music group AudioFeels.
Place Person/group Talent
1. Melkart Ball acrobatics
Acrobatics
Acrobatics is the performance of extraordinary feats of balance, agility and motor coordination. It can be found in many of the performing arts, as well as many sports...

2. singing
Singing
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

3. AudioFeels vocal play
4. "Blady Kris" beatbox
5. singing
Singing
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

6. Ewa|Lewandowska singing
Singing
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

7. rhythmic gymnastics
Rhythmic gymnastics
Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which individuals or teams of competitors manipulate one or two pieces of apparatus: rope, clubs, hoop, ball, ribbon and Free . An individual athlete only manipulates 1 apparatus at a time...

8. playing the piano
Piano
The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...

9. "Ssnake" gymnastics
Gymnastics
Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance. Internationally, all of the gymnastic sports are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique with each country having its own national governing body...

10. singing
Singing
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...


playing the piano
Piano
The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...


Series 2

II season of Mam talent! was broadcast by TVN
TVN (Poland)
TVN is a major Polish commercial television network. The broadcaster was co-founded by Polish businessmen Mariusz Walter and Jan Wejchert. The network launched on October 3, 1997. TVN belongs to the TVN S.A...

 from September 12 to December 5, 2009. It consisted of 7 qualifications episodes, 5 semi-finals and 1 final (totally - 13 episodes, which were broadcast every week on Saturdays - qualifications episodes from 20:35, semi-finals and finals from 20:00). Winner of the second season was Marcin Wyrostek. Alexander Martinez won a trip to the Philippines for him and his wife and daughter (his wife comes from Poland), and also 5,000 zlotys from Itaka travel agency.
Place Person/group Talent
1. Marcin Wyrostek playing accordion
Accordion
The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....

2.
Nikodem Legun
singing
Singing
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

 duo
3. singing
Singing
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

4. "Kaczorex" popping
Popping
Popping is a street dance and one of the original funk styles that came from California during the 1960s-70s. It is based on the technique of quickly contracting and relaxing muscles to cause a jerk in the dancer's body, referred to as a pop or a hit...

5.
Dominika Drewniak
acrobatic duo
6. singing
Singing
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

7. "Kruk"
Wojciech Blaszko "Blacha"
dancing-beatbox duo
8. "Kony" doll
Doll
A doll is a model of a human being, often used as a toy for children. Dolls have traditionally been used in magic and religious rituals throughout the world, and traditional dolls made of materials like clay and wood are found in the Americas, Asia, Africa and Europe. The earliest documented dolls...

 master
9 "Patenciarz" pantomime
Pantomime
Pantomime — not to be confused with a mime artist, a theatrical performer of mime—is a musical-comedy theatrical production traditionally found in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Jamaica, South Africa, India, Ireland, Gibraltar and Malta, and is mostly performed during the...

10. singing
Singing
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...


Series 3

III season of Mam talent! was broadcast by TVN
TVN (Poland)
TVN is a major Polish commercial television network. The broadcaster was co-founded by Polish businessmen Mariusz Walter and Jan Wejchert. The network launched on October 3, 1997. TVN belongs to the TVN S.A...

 from September 4 to November 27, 2010. It consisted of 7 qualifications episodes, 5 semi-finals and 1 final (totally - 13 episodes, which were broadcast every week on Saturdays). Winner of the third season was Magda Welc.
Place Person/group Talent
1. Magda Welc singing
Singing
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

2. Kamil Bednarek singing
Singing
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

3. Piotr Lisiecki
Piotr Lisiecki
Piotr Lisiecki is a Polish singer and guitarist who rose to fame after placing third on the third series of Poland's Got Talent. In late 2010, he was signed to EMI Music Poland. His debut album, Rules Changed Up was released on 27 April 2011...

singing
Singing
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

4. Sabina Jeszka singing
Singing
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

5. Me, Myself and I music band
6. Paweł Ejzenberg singing
Singing
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

7. Patrycja Malinowska singing
Singing
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

8. Kasia Sochacka singing
Singing
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

9 UDS dancing
10. Ania & Jacek dancing duo

Series 4

Editing planned for autumn 2011 http://mamtalent.plejada.pl/40879,news,,1,mam_talent_zarobil_miliony,aktualnosci_detal.html

Number of viewers

Episode series 1 series 2 series 3 series 4
1 4 167 845
(September 13, 2008)
4 357 743
(September 12, 2009)
4 199 359
(September 4, 2010)
3 723 707
(September 3, 2011)
2 4 502 281
(September 20, 2008)
5 026 596
(September 19, 2009)
4 558 421
(September 11, 2010)
3 690 205
(September 10, 2011)
3 4 855 700
(September 27, 2008)
5 026 692
(September 26, 2009)
4 792 298
(September 18, 2010)
3 844 050
(September 17, 2011)
4 5 267 665
(October 4, 2008)
5 675 511
(October 3, 2009)
5 351 017
(September 25, 2010)
4 688 933
(September 24, 2011)
5 4 122 152
(October 11, 2008)
5 662 442
(October 10, 2009)
5 499 206
(October 2, 2010)
6 4 708 884
(October 18, 2008)
5 744 863
(October 17, 2009)
5 499 206
(October 9, 2010)
7 5 105 134
(October 25, 2008)
4 859 732
(October 24, 2009)
5 769 375
(October 16, 2010)
8 4 488 090
(November 8, 2008)
5 959 888
(October 31, 2009)
5 179 601
(October 23, 2010)
9 4 654 200
(November 15, 2008)
5 240 128
(November 7, 2009)
5 604 377
(October 30, 2010)
10 4 596 335
(November 22, 2008)
5 398 177
(November 14, 2009)
5 648 856
(November 6, 2010)
11 5 590 536
(November 29, 2008)
5 168 758
(November 21, 2009)
5 130 995
(November 13, 2010)
12 - 4 720 044
(November 28, 2009)
5 428 154
(November 20, 2010)
13 - 6 704 752
(December 5, 2009)
5 773 209
(November 27, 2010)
Average number of viewers 4 750 166 5 394 771 5 276 001

Concert tour

From September 8 to 13, 2009 there was Mam Talent! concert tour. All finalists of the second season appeared there live in Lublin
Lublin
Lublin is the ninth largest city in Poland. It is the capital of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 350,392 . Lublin is also the largest Polish city east of the Vistula river...

, Poznań
Poznan
Poznań is a city on the Warta river in west-central Poland, with a population of 556,022 in June 2009. It is among the oldest cities in Poland, and was one of the most important centres in the early Polish state, whose first rulers were buried at Poznań's cathedral. It is sometimes claimed to be...

, Wrocław and Warsaw
Warsaw
Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...

. Klaudia Kulawik, Paulina Lenda and Ssnake from the final of the first season appeared there. All concerts were hosted by Marcin Prokop
Marcin Prokop
Marcin Prokop is a Polish journalist, television and radio personality, connected with TVN, TVN Turbo and Radio Zet. On TVN he currently presents morning show Dzień Dobry TVN in duo with Dorota Wellman, Poland's Got Talent in duo with Szymon Hołownia and game show Minute To Win It. On TVN Turbo he...

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