Fox ordered I Can See Your Voice to series in February 2020, with Jeong serving as a co-executive producer alongside The Masked Singer executive producer Craig Plestis, and James McKinlay. In the sixth and final round, the contestant may either end the game and keep the money they had won in previous rounds, or risk it for a chance to win $100,000 by correctly guessing whether the last remaining singer is good - revealed by means of a duet with one of the guest panelists.įox first announced the series during the Television Critics Association' January 2020 press tour Ken Jeong (who serves as a panelist on The Masked Singer, Fox's adaptation of another South Korean format) served as host for the pilot. In the fifth round ("Interrogation"), the contestant may question one of the final two singers for 30 seconds. In the fourth round ("Secret Studio"), the contestant is presented a video recording from a studio session by one of the three remaining singers of their choice, although the audio is pitch-shifted so they cannot clearly hear their vocals. In the third round ("Unlock My Life"), the contestant is presented a video clue package relating to one of the four remaining singers of their choice. The bad singers mime to a recording by someone else, and the good singers mime to a recording of their own performance.
In the first two rounds ("Lip Sync Challenge"), the singers are divided into two groups of three, and participate in a lip sync performance to one song each. The contestant must eliminate one singer at the end of each of the first five rounds, receiving $10,000 if they eliminate a bad singer.
"It literally is Ken Jeong on a full night of programming. it's still sinking in right now that that's even happening, I think because we're so busy.Presented with a group of six "secret singers" identified only by their occupation, a contestant must attempt to eliminate bad singers from the group without ever hearing them sing, assisted by clues and a celebrity panel over the course of six rounds. "It's Ken's day on Fox!" declared the comic, who referred to himself as the "Asian Seacrest" due to the scope of his hosting duties. Jeong's new show airs right after The Masked Singer, meaning it's a two-hour block of primetime programming with Jeong front and center. And so that kind of really helps ground the format for me." "So the whole show, in my head, is really about helping somebody win a hundred thousand dollars. "It really is a game show, more of a game show than The Masked Singer," Jeong said of I Can See Your Voice. While I Can See Your Voice and The Masked Singer share some similar elements - including singing, obviously, as the mystery element, and the fact that they are both American adaptations of Korean reality shows - Jeong said Fox's latest offering has a different end goal. "I'm just guiding the show along, reading copy," Jeong said with a smile. Instead of being a panelist or judge, he's serving as the host. Hines and Houghton are the only two recurring celeb panelists, and will be joined by a bevy of other guest panelists throughout the season, including Nick Lachey, Kelly Osbourne, Arsenio Hall, Joel McHale, Niecy Nash, Jay Pharoah and many, many others.Īs for Jeong, his work on I Can See Your Voice is a bit different than his role on The Masked Singer. "And it's hysterical!" Houghton added with a laugh. So, sometimes, if the contestant guesses wrong, the show's guest celebrity crooners end up performing a duet with someone who's actually a really bad singer. "Whoever is left, they have to duet with this celebrity singer," Houghton said, adding that their guest pros have included Robin Thicke and Jordin Sparks, just to name a few. Essentially, one contestant and a panel of five celebs try to guess whether a slate of performers that hit the stage are good singers or terrible singers just based on their lip-syncing performances, and not their actual voices.