We had to take our troubles patiently but this time, that’s it, we will finally see the banana, the pig and the tigress in the spotlight. This Friday, Mask Singer is making a comeback on TF1 with the same jury as the previous edition, and still Camille Combal as master of ceremonies. Fans of the program had been getting impatient for several months and for good reason: filming for the third season started last June, exactly nine months ago.
If the investigators have almost all taken an extra year since the recording of the show, it is because the channel did not yet know what its return would look like at the time because of the Covid-19. “There was still a lot of uncertainty about Dance with the stars “says Rémi Faure, director of flow programs for the TF1 group. The dance show having been able to take place without incident, it was then necessary to make choices.
“We had a lot of big entertainment at the start of the school year so we kept this season, which we thought was very successful, for another period so as not to have all the big events happening at the same time”, he adds, citing the ten years of The Voicethe twenty years of Koh-Lanta and the three premiums devoted to Star Academy.
“The investigators sometimes fell from above”
Who says new edition says novelties. Outraged the costumes of the twelve celebrities – which will evolve over the weeks for some – the production has chosen “to push the cursors of the investigation a little further and to give more weapons to investigators and viewers”, assures Anthony Meunier, the director general of ‘Herve Hubert Productions. It will therefore be necessary to keep an eye open during the performances since the staging, the dancers and the accessories can put you on the track of the name of the personality.
Don’t forget to open your ears wide as for the first time, we will hear the stars speak with their real voice on the set. But be careful, they will only be able to pronounce a single word selected by the members of the jury. “Quite quickly, they went on” unconstitutionally “to have the longest word”, smiles Rémi Faure.
Since it has been three years since Kev AdamsAlessandra Sublet, Jarry and Anggun guess who is hiding under the costumes of Mask Singer, they had to be put in difficulty. When the characters first arrive, the investigators will write down the name of the person they think they have recognized in an envelope. It is only when each of the celebrities is eliminated that the points will be counted in order to know which of the four members of the jury (or Camille Combal who also lends itself to the game) will have had the best intuition from departure. “They had evidence several times, notes Anthony Meunier. They were sure of themselves to put both hands to cut and they sometimes fell from above. »
No presidential candidate under the suits
They have accumulated more than 100 million viewers, won several awards, fought in the final… and all find themselves on the stage of Mask Singer. If it is impossible to know who is hiding behind the disguises, it is just as difficult to extract information from the channel. “We have profiles that come from somewhat unexpected backgrounds,” simply slips the director of stream programs for the TF1 group.
Slightly unexpected horizons such as the political sphere for example? “We are not necessarily for the mixing of genres and having politicians in place under the costume, it is a priori not something that we do”, replies Rémi Faure. With production crews currently tearing their hair out over which political jokes to keep in the edit due to equal airtime, we can be pretty sure we won’t see one of the contestants. in the presidential election as a cosmonaut or a chameleon.