https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/09/23/americas-got-talent-and-the-season-15-winner-is/

The 15th season of “America’s Got Talent” has been a rather unconventional one. Like other pandemic-era reality TV competitions, it had to make adjustments on the fly to accommodate social-distancing mandates.

And then the judges’ panel lost its leader when Simon Cowell suffered a serious back injury.