Some of my takes, in reply to the last message:

> Apparently there were quite a few people there who had never even
seen one episode of The Mole. What
> that results in...? Who knows.

Well, the people in Season 1 had never seen an episode of The Mole
either. :-D I'm not concerned by that.

> Let's just hope they keep their
> promise of not dumbing the show down,

Don't get your hopes up. It'll probably be dumbed down a little bit.
They need to do what they need to do to get people to watch.

> and that it gets really good ratings when it airs.

I don't know about "really" good, but the ratings will be fairly
good, I'm sure. Not much competition during the summer.

> I just hope the casting doesn't turn out to be
> of the most controversial people they could find... if The Mole
turns
> into "Big Brother Clue" or "SuvivorMole", then I'll be very
> disappointed.

Relax. They pick controversial people for Big Brother and Survivor
to add drama to the show. Not much need to do that for The Mole; the
mystery about the Mole's identity creates enough drama on its own.
I'm sure it'll be fine.

-jmd2001