The third season of America’s Got Talent, an American television reality show talent competition, premiered on NBC on June 17, 2008. Opera singer Neal E. Boyd was named the winner on October 1, 2008. Preliminary auditions were held in New York, Dallas, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, and MySpace from January to April. Sharon Osbourne, Piers Morgan and David Hasselhoff returned as judges. Jerry Springer also returned as host. It premiered in the United Kingdom 7 months after the US on ITV2,in Singapore by Channel 5 and debuted in September 2008,and on Hong Kong TVB Pearl on May 23, 2009. This season, the audition stage became different. This season, the X on the stages and matched the ones from Britain’s Got Talent or has been borrowed for this season.
3 - 1Auditions 1, New York & Los Angeles Jun. 17, 2008- 3 - 2Auditions 2, Los Angeles & New York Jun. 24, 2008
- 3 - 3Auditions 3, Dallas, Chicago & Atlanta Jul. 01, 2008
- 3 - 4Auditions 4, Atlanta Jul. 08, 2008
- 3 - 5Auditions 5, Atlanta Jul. 15, 2008
- 3 - 6Auditions 6, New York & Los Angeles Jul. 22, 2008
- 3 - 7Auditions 7, MySpace Jul. 29, 2008
- 3 - 8Vegas Week 1 Aug. 05, 2008
- 3 - 9Vegas Week 2 Aug. 07, 2008
- 3 - 10Live Show 1, Top 40 Aug. 26, 2008
- 3 - 11Live Show 2, Top 40 & Live Show 1 Results Aug. 27, 2008
- 3 - 12Live Show 3, Top 40 & Live Show 2 Results Sep. 02, 2008
- 3 - 13Live Show 4, Top 40 & Live Show 3 Result Sep. 03, 2008
- 3 - 14Live Show 5, Top 20 & Live Show 4 Results Sep. 09, 2008
- 3 - 15Live Show 6, Top 20 Sep. 10, 2008
- 3 - 16Live Show 5 & 6 Results Sep. 11, 2008
- 3 - 17Live Show 7, Top 10 Sep. 17, 2008
- 3 - 18Live Show 7 Results Sep. 18, 2008
- 3 - 19The Finals, Top 5 Sep. 24, 2008
- 3 - 20The Finale & The Finals Results Oct. 01, 2008
