America’s Got Talent judge Howie Mandel approves the fitness and protection measures implemented through the NBC contest by starting its quarter-finals on Tuesday (8 EDT/PDT).
His voice would possibly have an extra weight in the coVID-19 era, as Mandel is well known for being a germphobe that prevents handshake. “With the pandemic, all his readers feel is how I’ve lived each and every day of my life,” says Mandel, who adds that he’s giving up his signature because of a virus he calls “an absolute nightmare.”
While the better-rated summer screen is adapting to the coronavirus, it now has to adapt to some other serious fitness problem: a back injury judges and executive manufacturer Simon Cowell suffered a fall from an electric motorcycle on Saturday. Cowell, who fractured his back in several places while testing a new electric motorcycle at his home in Malibu, underwent surgery and is fine, his spokesman Ann-Marie Thomson said Sunday morning.
Kelly Clarkson replaces Cowell, who remains hospitalized, at least during the first live episodes of season 15 on Tuesday and Wednesday (8 EDT/PDT), NBC said. Tuesday’s exhibition features the 11 most sensitive acts of the remaining 44 acts, five of which advance Wednesday in the spectators’ votes.
Clarkson showed the news with a cheeky memo on his Instagram account on Monday. It was said that while his “friend Simon Cowell” was recovering on Tuesday and Wednesday, someone “much wiser, colder and warmer is taking a seat! Kelly Clarkson.” The message concluded: “In advance you are welcome!”
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Meanwhile, in the “AGT” tray, the addition of masks, tests, temperature controls, paint modules and even express bathroom assignments, for tactile search, if required, makes it “the safest position in the world, but it turns out to be in the world,” Mandel says.
When a team member enters the set, “you see what you think a human user is because he has a mask, a visor, gloves and a helmet,” Mandel says. “That’s what I think the exhibition would be if we did it on the moon.”
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Strict protocols, with the addition of “COVID advisors,” as Mandel calls medical experts on set, have only replaced since production began months ago of “AGT,” which performed some early auditions without a studio audience and organized his Cuts Judge on a stage. Socially remote set designed to look like a drive-in.
With Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre, the classic home of seasonal live exhibitions, unsustainable due to the pandemic, “AGT” moves to nearby Universal Studios Hollywood, where artists will perform on a sound stage, at the theme park and in the annotated lot.
Tuesday’s episode stars Simon and Maria dancing on Mel’s Diner and Pork Chop Revue, a pig song, performing on Western Street.
Daredevils Bello and Annaliese Nock will have plenty of room for their “double wheel of death on fire” on Universal’s New York Street, executive manufacturer Sam Donnelly said Thursday. “Its functionality is so great and harmful that it will never have compatibility in the studio, however, we look to make a bonus by having this wonderful game box in the backlot.”
Some actions are recorded in foreign countries, largely due to headaches from a pandemic. During Tuesday’s show, the audience will see the Feng-E ukulele guitarist at a dazzling level in Taipei, Taiwan.
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As with Judge Cuts, the final rounds, which will give a season 15 champion on September 23, require a really extensive fit.
Although the performances are historically live, some will be recorded because the acts cannot reach Los Angeles or were performed remotely for security reasons, as was the case with the Voices of Our City Choir in San Diepass. Teams from India, Germany and Australia ‘Got Talent’ film acts that can’t pass to Universal.
To update the loss of enthusiastic studio audiences, “AGT” will upload a “virtual audience” to the NBA, featuring audio and video from enthusiasts watching live streams from their homes.
“The concept is very exciting that Ohio has the chance to participate in (the show) and potentially be in front of the camera,” says executive manufacturer Jason Raff. “They will laugh, applaud and offer vital feedback to the candidates.”
The lack of some of the auditions affected Mandel, a stand-up comedian.
“Comedy is probably the only act this audience wants live,” he says. However, “as a user who started chasing him in clubs, where 4 other people come and go, you have to paint in the moment”.
As the pandemic adds restrictions, which requires significant logistical planning, it also creates opportunities to break the walls of a theater stage.
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Double Dragon, a duo of singers competing on Tuesday, will move from Western Street to Mexican Street as they perform “because the two backlots are adjacent to each other,” Donnelly said. “We have these multi-million dollar sets, so we’re looking to make the most of this wonderful place.”
Some settings may be familiar to many viewers.
Other acts that will perform on Tuesday include: singer Archie Williams; the swallowed Brett Loudermilk swords; Contortion dancer FrenchieBabyy; the comedian Michael Yo; singer Roberta Battaglia; and singer Shaquira McGrath.
Over the course of 4 weeks, 20 events will advance according to the votes of the spectators; Two savages of the judges will complete the semi-final of 22 acts.