Watch America’s Got Talent Season 5 Episode 29 Online

Something bigger is happening, though, than a late-summer TV hit featuring a more talented than usual field of contestants. AGT is a working blueprint for Simon Cowell's The X Factor, which -even though it won't debut until the fall of 2011 -is already being tapped as a potential game changer for the business of networktelevision. If TheX Factor hits, and it just might, and if American Idol hangs onto a major share of its present audience