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My guess is Kamal, the unborn demon child's bodyguard.

I'm a fan of the UK version, and especially Michael McIntyre, so I'm enjoying this. It's important to note that the trivia questions are not the focus of the show, so if you're in the market for that, you will be disappointed. I think the back-and-forth between the celebrities and contestants, the enormous flashy set, the randomness, and of course Michael, are what make the show work. Michael McIntyre created the show as a way to keep everyone involved separated for Covid. He's a very clever man! It's unfortunate that some things had to be changed to make the show work on ad-riddled NBC. The ad-free BBC version has 7 celebrities instead of 6, and the wheel seems to spin faster. The BBC must have a blanket music license, because they seem freer to play popular songs for some of the spins, which breaks up the monotony. The UK version punishes the "expert" celebrity if they get an answer in their category wrong by shutting them down in red for the next spin. The contestant still has to choose a second celebrity to shut down, which makes that spin more tense. The UK version also has time for a Moneyspinner round, where the wheel spins once around, and the celebrities have to quickly give an answer when they come into the light. Each correct answer adds £1,000 to the pot, and if all get it right, £10,000 is added. The questions are again super simple, like months with 31 days or name one of the 7 dwarves, but it's fun because inevitably someone chokes under the pressure. It's a nice break in the proceedings, and it gives all the celebrities something to do, as long as no one messes up. They also give the ranking of all the celebrities at the end, not just the 3, which is fun. Avoid watching this on Xfinity On Demand, because it doesn't appear to be shown at 60 frames a second, but rather reduced to only 30. Fewer frames per second makes the spinning wheel seem jerky, and my mom said the overhead shot of the wheel makes her feel a little sick. I wish they'd play it at the full quality so it would appear smoother. So watch it live or on DVR, but not On Demand! I hope this show catches on, or finds a home somewhere ad-free like Netflix. Michael McIntyre deserves a bigger stage. He's joyful, not afraid of acting silly or making fun of himself, and as others have mentioned, he's very quick with witty responses.

Patrick should have used a ball gag to shut Gino up as they were "sneaking" into Whitely's warehouse. Holy Christ that man can talk.

The Covid pandemic is still lingering, so maybe it's too soon to do a season about the AIDS epidemic and how AIDS might have been developed in a lab as a weapon. Or maybe it's the perfect time, who's to say? I would have prefered something more fun and escapist and less grounded in reality. Dahmer was more than enough 80s/90s gay serial killer reality for a while. Maybe the inevitable mid-season shift will bring some welcome changes, rather than the usual going off the rails.

I'm not surprised it's a ghost town here. I am bored. The only ones I find interesting are the cats.

It must be an amazing feeling to work hard all week, overcome your nerves, finish your routine well, bask in the audience's applause, make your way over to the judges' table for critique, then Wait! Wait! Let's take a look at this judge's old photo! Can you believe that hair?! What a hoot! Hee hee... Anyhow, where were we? Ah well, I guess it's not important.

I thought it was a very good show. It seemed long at two hours without commercials. That would be three hours on ABC. And since they didn't need to go to and come back from ads, they had to find another way to use the troupe dancers. Having a couple dance across the studio at random intervals was an interesting choice. I'm sure the producers tried their best to keep everything on time, but there was no way they could tell how much Tyra would prattle on with the contestants after the scoring. And it was never really "with" the contestants, more "at" them. I don't think any actually talked back to her before they were swept away to the skybox. Tyra made some entertaining goofs, as usual. My favorite was when she threw it to Alfonso when the couple was still standing next to her. Hopefully she'll catch on to how the format works at some point. All in all, a very enjoyable premiere. I didn't care which couple went home. Either would have been fine to thin the herd. Yes. He looks smaller and quite gaunt. ☹️

I want to see the full "Story Prism" slide shown at the screenwriting seminar. Ryan must have had a lot of fun putting that together. We learned that, like a diamond, screenwriting is hard! But what IS the difference between the primal defense cotagonist and the shadow trickster pretagonist?

Obviously no one know for sure other than the production team, but to me it appeared to be the editor having two clips stacked on the timeline to select from, no producer telling him/her which one to use, and it got rendered out and aired with the video from one clip and the audio from another, with no b-roll bookending it all, thus the black holes.

It was a fun show. So many contestants! Plenty of potential and some good cannon fodder. Awesome to have Len back. So awkard to have a 30-season retrospective and not see Tom (that was probably tricky to edit). And I wish Jojo had a younger partner. Jenna looked winded. Why do the producers crank up the fake audience cheering whenever Tyra's talking to camera. Obviously there aren't enough people in the studio to make that much noise, and it's just grating. I couldn't make out what Tyra was saying when she introduced the contestants at the start. There was a brief moment when she got to speak with silence behind her, and it was so much better. The confetti and streamers were back this year in full force, but there was much less dancing in limbo and being blinded by lighting. So far. Now they seem to like matching the lighting to whatever color the dancers are wearing to make it really hard to see them. That pink neon suit against the orange lighting was painful. Were they using more real songs? If they were covers, then Ray Chew and crew did really well. If not, then what DID Ray Chew do? It seems no one checked Brian Austin Green's package before airtime, because there were some weird editing glitches, with missing footage and out-of-sync video. Well, I shouldn't say no one checked his package. I'm sure Sharna did, ha haaaa!

Knocking off a point for a lift is as bad as knocking off points for bad choreography. The celebrity shouldn't be held responsible for their pro putting in moves that aren't allowed or don't fit the style. I bet if the pros got fined like pro athletes do, they'd straighten up really fast.

As an executive producer, does Tyra still have people giving her advice on how she can improve her performance and appearance, or has she just surrounded herself with yes-men? As the weeks go by, I'm afraid the answer is becoming clear.

Really, show? The Circle of Life for a samba? There was no need to throw Carole under the bus like that. She already had her ticket and was raring to go.

Maybe Paul will do a version of "It's Raining Men," which he co-wrote in the 80's, and the extras used for Montana's Midnight Manerobics will get some more work. I don't see how Ryan Murphy could resist doing that.

If it had to be one of Christie Brinkley's daughters who replaced her, I'm glad it's Sailor. Otherwise, all season long I'd hear my Echo responding to the judges with things like "I'm sorry, I don't know how to show you more hip action."