America's Got Talent kicked off its new season last week with big ratings. Two episodes. The week's two highest rated shows.

That, you'd think, would be good enough for the show's producers to can their choreographed attempt to create the U.S. version of Susan Boyle, Britain's Got Talent's lumpy runner-up.

I suppose the big question going into last night's season premiere of NBC's America's Got Talent was: Will Susan Boyle, the famously frumpy runner-up on Britain's Got Talent, make an appearance?

The bubbly, fun and incessantly lively America's Got Talent answered that question right away. "Not yet," although Boyle is...