Ken Jeong expands his blind-guessing-based singing show empire with I Can See Your Voice on Fox
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If there’s one thing Ken Jeong loves, it’s apparently—and really, we can only go off of the copious evidence here—baselessly making guesses about people who are either singing, or who may be about to sing. Hence news tonight that Fox has green-lit a new unscripted series starring the Masked Singer judge, in which he’s forced to look at a bunch of random people and, without hearing them sing, judge whether they’re secretly good at it.
Titled I Can See Your Voice, the show is being paired with The Masked Singer—gearing up for its fourth season—for an exciting night of blind guessing backed up with only the slightest token nods toward deductive reasoning. Jeong will be joined by regular co-hosts Cheryl Hines and Adrienne Bailon-Houghton, plus “a rotating panel of celebrity detectives,” who, from the show’s deeply obscure promo, seem to include Joel McHale and Joel McHale’s streotypical notions about shirts. All of them will help the show’s actual contestant, who’ll be trying to win $100,000 by figuring out which of the paraded performers is a good singer, and which produce “a totally hilarious train wreck” when paired up with each episode’s “musical superstar” for a big closing duet.
And maybe it’s just this blinding headache we suddenly have, but seriously: What in god’s name is this show? “Ken Jeong looks at you, tries to figure out if you can sing, but don’t sing yet, he’s gotta guess” feels like a bad premise for a Hangover movie or a very gaudy kidnapping, let alone a fun-for-the-whole-family game show. As far as we can tell from the promo, the performers’ tactics are mostly about dressing in a slightly funny way that either does, or does not, connote good singing skills, which feels like a bizarre exercise in screwing with pre-conceived notions, and not much else. We can’t wait for the sequel series, where Jeong is given a bunch of book covers, and asks contestants to evaluate the contents of what might possibly be inside.
I Can See Your Voice is set to debut on September 23, the same night as The Masked Singer’s latest debut.
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Of these two shows, both adapted from fairly popular Korean counterparts, I actually think I Can See Your Voice will be better since it features non-celebs. Masked Singer works a lot better in a smaller culture where each celebrity has a little bit more name recognition and is closer to the current zeitgeistThat said, they really need to get going on Hidden Singer
At least they didn’t give the spin-off show to Jenny McCarthy to spout anti-vax craziness.
My kids love the Masked Singer and every time she talks I can only think about how much of a nut she is
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I mean, the man is a doctor, after all. I’m sure he’s able to guess at least as well as anyone else could.
I can’t believe this isn’t a Quibi show
Quibi actually passed on it. That’s all you have to know about how good it will be.
Yeah but Quibi only passed because they’re pivoting to 20-hour-long Ken Burns docs.
Hey buddy, “I Can’t Believe This Isn’t A Quibi Show” is the hot, hot IP that *I’ve* been shopping around town!
I got a “Community” notification for this?
I always think, “Why would they even agree to do this?” But then I flash back to an old Eddie Murphy appearance where he talks about how he turned down a movie, but then accepted it (The bad one where he was an arms dealer or something).It was basically, “I said ‘no’, and they said, ‘Oh look – a check…’”.
You go get paid, Ken. Just try to be in something good once in a while for us, please.
There was as game show for about 10 minutes years ago (Penn Jillette hosted, that’s all I remember) where people would stand on a stage and “expert” judges would try to guess things about them, like what jobs they had and details about their pasts. The hook was these judges were (I think, this was a long time ago) FBI profilers and psychologists and such, and it was about how cool and useful their expertise was. What the hell is this? Former doctor, former sitcom star decides if randos can sing?
I love Ken Jeong. I hope this works out.