Rain of sequins on Saturday autumn nights: "Mask Singer", the singing contest of celebrities hidden under wacky costumes returns from this Saturday at 9:05 pm on TF1 for six weeks in a row.
The concept does not change: guess who sings under the mask, at the same time as the host Camille Combal and the four investigators of the jury, Alessandra Sublet, Kev Adams, Jarry and Anggun.
Entertainment from Korea, which hit France last year, must transform the essay.
Recorded in July at the Plaine Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis), after several postponements due to the pandemic, the program won by host Laurence Boccolini in 2019 in front of 5 million viewers intends to strengthen its game and promises more surprises at the casting.
Overview of new features.
12 new eccentric costumes
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A skeleton wearing a top hat, a spider with eight articulated legs, a crazy wolf in sunglasses, a gigantic disco red mouth perched on high heels or even a magnificent octopus covered in glitter.
The costumers of "Mask Singer" - to whom the confinement gave a hard time to meet the manufacturing deadlines - put the package, with a touching shark in his blue suit or a penguin in a pompom cap.
Foreign versions of the program have also piqued the idea of the very futuristic robot with eyes in the form of car headlights planned for this season 2.
An international star.
Surprise from the second issue: a personality "world famous" according to TF1 will come for the evening.
Dressed in a superb costume based on mirrors, she will remove her mask at the end of the "flash investigation".
“The hardest part was getting her to come to the recording in the sanitary context,” underlines Camille Combal, who readily recounts her pride in having escorted her on stage… “It put me on the buttocks!
It's very strong and it gives credit to the show, ”adds Kev Adams, one of the investigators.
Who is hiding under the costume of the skeleton? / TF1-CHRISTOPHE CHEVALIN
More mainstream celebrities
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Like last year, the front page promises surprises.
Should we believe her again, when certain revelations, unknown to young viewers, have disappointed?
"It will be a season a cut above," swears the production, arguing that the success of season 1 has attracted candidates and facilitated the casting with more current stars, from music, fashion, cinema, sport, media… Camille Combal even received several applications directly on his cell phone.
Each evening, two celebrities will be eliminated and will drop the mask, after the vote of the public and the jury.
"They really did not want us to recognize them and went far to trap us, to the point of changing voices from one song to another to better muddy the waters," says the singer and juror Anggun.
A duo
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Two parrots in flash colors will live the adventure hand in hand, until their joint elimination.
According to witnesses, it is very difficult to guess which artistic tandem, "in the city or on the stage", is hiding behind the red feathers….
The American version of "Mask Singer", which hit the Fox channel, piqued the idea.
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A less focused investigation
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It was often too hard to get us on track.
“We put more tangible clues from the first presentation tape to help viewers,” says Anthony Meunier, general manager within production.
The artists' voices will be less subject to acoustic arrangements in the cabin beforehand.
And celebrities are entitled to only one performance per episode instead of two.
A bird of bad omen
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A crow will intervene from the third number to sow clues.
No need to find out who will be hiding behind his hoarse voice: he is there to spice up the investigation, help viewers and give rhythm to this season 2 that TF1 announces “pop and crazy”.
We only ask to believe it.