EXCLUSIVE: The Masked Singer has been renewed after producing an unbelievable 13 seasons and greater than 170 episodes because it launched on Fox in January 2019.
This included a variety of seasons produced below strict Covid protocols with the music competitors guessing recreation, which has aired one season firstly of the 12 months and one within the fall, by no means lacking a run all through the pandemic.
Nevertheless, Deadline understands that that is about to alter with the present eschewing its conventional fall 2025 season and planning to return for Season 14 in January.
The information comes because the Season 13 finale is about to air tonight. This season has featured the likes of Cedric the Entertainer, Oscar De La Hoya, Aubrey O’Day, Scheana Shay, Taste Flav, James Van Der Beek, Candace Cameron Bure, Methodology Man, Erika Jayne, Matthew Lawrence and Edwin McCain. 4 celebrities have but to be unmasked – these performing as Boogie Woogie, Coral, Mad Scientist Monster and Pearl.
The transfer is sensible to maintain the format, which relies on MBC’s Korean sequence King of Masks Singer, contemporary because it strikes into center age. It probably can be simpler to eventize the present and rating higher-profile celebrities to seem.
Nevertheless, Deadline understands that this isn’t a everlasting transfer and The Masked Singer is more likely to be again on air twice a 12 months sooner or later.
Fox likes to launch reveals in January. This 12 months it debuted its new Denis Leary-fronted comedy Going Dutch and medical drama Doc, each of which have been renewed for second seasons, and premiered new dramas comparable to The Cleansing Girl, Alert: Lacking Individuals Unit and Accused firstly of the 12 months. Unscripted reveals comparable to Lego Masters, Gordon Ramsay’s Subsequent Stage Chef, Particular Forces: World’s Hardest Take a look at, The Flooring, Identify That Tune, Farmer Desires a Spouse and Extracted additionally launched through the first 10 weeks of the 12 months.
From left: ‘The Masked Singer’ panelists Robin Thicke, Jenny McCarthy-Wahlberg, Rita Ora and Ken Jeong (Fox)
The community stated that it could return with a “super-charged” Season 14. “Debuting the brand new season in January is a strategic transfer to give ample runway for America’s favourite guessing recreation and permit us to creatively have a look at enhancing the present with the most important names on the middle of it,” a Fox spokeswoman advised Deadline.
There are only a few reveals of the size of The Masked Singer that also air two seasons a 12 months. NBC has two seasons of The Voice per 12 months and CBS nonetheless airs two seasons of Survivor every year, however The Superb Race pared again to 1 season per 12 months in 2016, and ABC waltzed off with just one season of Dancing with the Stars every year in 2019.
The Masked Singer has ranked among the many prime 10 unscripted leisure packages in every of the six broadcast seasons it has aired amongst adults 18-49 (Dwell+7). The sequence is hosted by Nick Cannon with Jenny McCarthy-Wahlberg, Ken Jeong, Robin Thicke and Rita Ora as panelists.
It’s produced by Fox Various Leisure. Craig Plestis, who runs Good Canine Media and based the Korean format, exec produces alongside Cannon and Rosie Seitchik, who serves as showrunner.
