NBC reality show America has talent It was one of the many television series affected by the COVID-19 outbreak. Recently, one of the judges in AGTSimon Cowell, as well as others working on the show, revealed their plans for Judge Cuts and live episodes, which are still happening amid the global pandemic.
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USA Today recently reported on America has talentHe is currently broadcasting Season 15, which he began recording during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“As bad as it is, you always have to find a solution to get back to work,” Judge Simon Cowell wrote to the publication in an email. He continued:
I have sympathy for so many people in this situation, but if our show is an example, there is a light at the end of the tunnel. It’s different, but hopefully it will still be as popular.
The United States also spoke with the network’s alternative programming EVP, Jenny Groom. She confirmed that it was never a potential option to shut this down. America has talent season completely.
“We wanted to find out how we can do this safely and make fans feel like they still get the show they love,” said Groom. There is also an explicit concern for the needs and wants of their viewers during this difficult time in history.
“We also talk a lot about how this is the program that we feel the United States needs right now,” the executive continued. “They need to feel that they can escape.”
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USA Today also reported that America has talent, “The most watched show in the summer,” take every precaution so that fans continue to receive their television show. The post expanded, thankfully, when locks were set, AGT I already had “about two-thirds of the audition filming completed.” When things got more serious, “the producers took a precautionary approach, filming the last few days without an audience.”
NBC executive Groom also told USA Today about the precautions they use to keep their personalities from reality shows safe.
“We have the four judges appear separately in the cars,” he said. From there, “they walk to establish and it’s this big screen cinema drive-in.” This is where the chairs are placed, several feet apart, so that the judges can see the acts, as well as interact with the contestants, from wherever they are in the world.
“It ended up being really inspiring,” Groom emphasized. It got complicated with some acts, of course.
“When you have a bunch of pigs doing tricks or a trapeze artist, that’s a little bit harder to do on an iPhone,” Groom admitted. However, producers are confident that this season of America has talent it will still impress the audience at home.
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For his part, the America has talent star Simon Cowell enjoyed coming back together for the Judge Cuts episodes.
“It was surreal, like being in a movie,” Cowell wrote in his email. First American idol the judge continued:
As we drove into the parking lot, everyone was walking in masks and we walked into this room and they told us what we can do, what we can’t do and I think this will be a difficult day. But there was a real buzz of excitement that we were all back together.
Later in the season, America has talent It will increase the number of live shows that air, “to partially compensate for the loss of performances during the shortened round of Judge Cuts.”
