[1] After the final round a winner is selected and crowned the most talented performer of the episode and receive a five hundred dollar cash prize and a statuette.
Anthony Fedorov and Constantine Maroulis, both from American Idol's fourth season, occasionally sat in as singing judges.
Actor Byron Vasquez Jr. Adam Ryan and Merrin Mae Fuentebella were cut from pilot episode "I'm Dyin, Bryan."
Most of the contestants were professional singers, actors, comedians or dancers of some kind, and were told that this was a serious (if small scale) talent competition rather than a spoof.
For example, professional singer Aria Johnson appears in the pilot but we don't hear her much of her singing in the final edit.
In the final shows, we are told that contestants consider themselves good singers, dancers and actors - a "Triple Threat."
The scripts to the acting competitions were written to be as ridiculous as possible and impossible to perform seriously (full of comically overlong words, or showing the actor regressing in age from an old man to a baby), so most of the cast performed them in a purposely comedic fashion (affecting silly accents, or doing impersonations of celebrities).