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BGT went on for an hour and a half last saturday though ending at 10.15, at which point the BBC is doing their news as always and then Match of the Day so it isn't really that simple, and also the BBC shows Casualty on saturday nights which they'd have to ditch to do that. Being a publicly funded channel they're not really at liberty to host an expensive live show on the sunday like ITV can, they've just got to provide the cheapest option to the highest quality possible and they must feel it isn't worth the added cost to do a live show