Producer-host Tiffany Haddish (Girls Trip) tries hard, but these children brim with a smarmy precocity that makes me long for a TV version of another candid-kiddie work, National Lampoon's old "Children's Letters To The Gestapo."

Haddish, a competitive comedian, can’t help but mug over the kids she’s supposed to be introducing, and redirects the conversation perpetually to her celebrity status. ... This show wants the kids on its air to bolster and bring further attention to famous adult celebrities. In this, it gets the equation of how to bring together young people and stars precisely and disastrously backwards.