It is laborious to consider that Season 4 of The Masked Singer is coming this fall, given the unprecedented instances we’re in however, boy, we might all use some pleasure proper now and fortunately, a brand new season inches nearer each day.
On the outset of Season 3, The Masked Singer promised to be larger and bolder, and it did not disappoint — the caliber of expertise shot up, with contestants holding 69 Grammys, 88 gold information, 11 Tremendous Bowl appearances and three stars on the Hollywood Stroll of Fame between them, to not point out the road cred of getting somebody like Lil Wayne, and the bona fides of legit music icons like Chaka Khan and Dionne Warwick coming to play the sport. As huge as Season Three was — audaciously kicking off proper after the Tremendous Bowl — it is solely affordable that producers wish to make Season Four even higher and wilder, so TV Information caught up wth government producer Craig Plestis to search out out all we might concerning the new iteration, already underway and anticipated in fall. This is what he was keen to disclose.
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Initially, you guys have been method forward of the curve on masks. Instantly everyone is sporting masks! Are there plans to capitalize on the pattern with some merch? I might purchase a Evening Angel masks for those who made one.
Craig Plestis: I undoubtedly assume we have been forward of the curve. Yeah, defend your well being and your id! Masks are very acceptable presently. [If we make them] you will be the primary to get one.
Thrilling! Congratulations on an important season. How’d you are feeling concerning the season general?
Plestis: It was phenomenal. It is nonetheless a powerhouse within the scores however extra to the purpose, the followers like it and once I look again on how a lot pleasure and laughter we dropped at America, we have been a small island. From the pandemic to politics and all the pieces else. I dwell on-line the night time the episodes air, to see what persons are saying and seeing how we might be higher subsequent season, and I simply love how we deliver households collectively. It is uncommon a present will get everybody of all ages to return collectively and watch in the identical room. Children are normally watching on their telephones in one other room at a distance. With this, everybody’s in a position to come collectively to play the sport.
You promised a much bigger lineup of stars and also you delivered. Are you able to speak about what that strategy of getting expertise was like this time?
Plestis: It was lots simpler in Season 3. In Season 1, it was not straightforward going out to those icons saying we wish to put you in these costumes… however we have been fortunate that some folks bought it. In Season 3, folks know what they’re moving into. They love the concept of moving into these totally different characters. Lil Wayne — that was a heartbreaking second for me. I wished him to go all the best way to the top as a result of that was considered one of my favourite costumes. However People noticed the potential for what we had developing based mostly on that. We labored with unimaginable legends.
You have been one of many first exhibits to stay your neck out and say you are going ahead with manufacturing on one other season. How are you going to do this, in gentle of the pandemic, and the place are you within the course of?
Plestis: We’re nonetheless engaged on the method and the logistics. Security is paramount. We’re engaged on it as we converse — proper now, I am mock-ups of a few of the costumes. I really feel assured we’ll clear up it. We do not know what’s taking place by fall with the pandemic, the election however we’re this island. We have to be there so folks can disconnect from all the pieces else taking place.
What number of costumes are we speaking right here? Final season you upped the variety of contestants. Are you planning on including extra once more?
Plestis: I would like to inform you that. I can inform you that every season the costumes get higher and higher. I am trying on the board now they usually’re a few of the most unimaginable.
So far as manufacturing, are you continue to planning to have the viewers, or are you contemplating capturing in isolation?
Plestis: We would prefer to maintain as a lot of the vitality as we’ve got in place — that magic. We’re nonetheless in dialogue.
The place are you with The Masked Dancer?
Plestis: We’re nonetheless speaking. We’re hoping we will transfer forward within the yr forward. There is not any thought precisely; we go away that as much as Fox. However we’re all obsessed with a few of the pre-planning that was taking place pre-COVID.
Equally, The Masked Singer tour was anticipated to roll out in summer season. I do know a separate firm can be dealing with that however the place is it at now? And the way was that going to work precisely — was it new celebrities or folks from the present?
Plestis: It can resume for future dates. Lots of people signed on, so there was pleasure… it might be celebs from the present in addition to others.
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Again to The Masked Singer Four format, would you continue to do pre-recorded episodes or is there an opportunity you’d do dwell episodes?
Plestis: We’re nonetheless engaged on particulars, so I can not give away how a lot can be pre-recorded. There can be extra data within the subsequent month or so. The present is working nicely, so we do not wish to fully change it. It is not damaged. We simply wish to make it higher.
I have been to a few tapings, and I’ve seen firsthand how unimaginable the set is. Assuming you make all the pieces larger in Season 4, can we count on to see some modifications to the precise set and stage?
Plestis: We’re experimenting with some novel approaches that can be eye-catching. I can not inform you what that’s; we’re engaged on it now. But when all goes to plan it is going to be unimaginable. Will probably be a significant enchancment.
Final query: I would like you to dispel a delusion for me. I am satisfied the judges have their telephones up there on stage, they usually’re Googling data. They don’t seem to be pulling these guesses out of the blue, proper?
Plestis: This is the reality about guesses. They need to do it for actual. Solely a handful of producers know who persons are. The director, the lighting folks, the crew, the community — only a few folks know. We don’t inform the panelists. We confiscate their telephones. Once they go residence I am certain they’re Googling like loopy; we ask them to not. However on the set, they do not have that luxurious. They’ve to make use of their brains. It is real-time data. They need to guess. What you do not see is that they every have a binder. When the cameras aren’t on them, they’re taking copious notes. They’re writing down the clues — they’re very aggressive they usually all wish to get it proper. These binders are their bibles. Daily they go away, we put them in a vault.
The Masked Singer Season Four is predicted to return to Fox within the fall.
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