The first season of "America's Got Talent", an American talent show competition, was broadcast in the United States during 2006, from June 21 to August 17 on NBC. The season went into production a year earlier than planned by "Got Talent" creator Simon Cowell, who had intended for "Britain's Got Talent" to debut in 2006, until its production was suspended following internal conflicts within its tv network. For this season, production staff appointed David Hasselhoff, Brandy Norwood, and Piers Morgan to be the program's first judges, and its first host to be Regis Philbin.