The tenth season of Your Face Looks Familiar celebrates such an important event from the streets. The space that has become the emblem of the small screen returns, ready to gather the family around the TV, with the same formula with which, issue after issue, it demonstrates the iron-clad sanity of a 100% Spanish format. In the first episode, which Antena 3 premieres this Friday (10:00 p.m.), some of the most mythical contestants and musical numbers in the history of the program are recreated with festive tone. They will be in charge of presenting the new participants of the edition: Alfred García, Anne Igartiburu, Agustín Jiménez, Jadel, Merche, Miriam Rodríguez, Josie, Andrea Guasch and Susi Caramelo. They, in turn, are evaluated by the jury, in which Carlos Latre, Chenoa, Lolita Flores and Àngel Llàcer repeat themselves. Above all, a master of ceremonies: Manel Fuentes.
The success of “Tu cara me suena” was not only to be emphasized on Antena 3. The program’s formula has been sold in more than forty territories, including the United States, China, Europe, Latin America and Asia. Since its premiere in 2011, it has been the Spanish format most exported to the world, according to the chain. In addition, it holds the record in Spain as the musical “talent show” that has broadcast the most consecutive editions on television. Since its premiere, the competition, produced by Atresmedia in collaboration with Gestmusic (Banijay Iberia), has achieved an average market share of 20.4% and more than 2.8 million viewers. In its last edition, it bid farewell with a 21% share and almost 2.4 million followers.
For Atresmedia TV’s Director of Entertainment, Carmen Ferreiro, this program is “a son of Antena 3,” which meant being “the first major project of the new stage” that the channel began more than a decade ago when it launched it put heart programs aside in favor of more white and familiar content that has propelled them to audience leadership. “It was a great bet because it was an idea and a format that hadn’t been done anywhere in the world,” he says. “It’s television on a grand scale,” points out the directive, who appreciates the humor and good vibes this space exudes.
For his part, the director of the production company Gestmusic, Tinet Rubira, assures that talent is “not running out” in Spain and celebrates that the show has become “a classic” on the small screen. «For the participants, ‘Your face looks familiar’ is always a gift. It’s a program that rejuvenates watching Lolita and Chenoa,” jokes Rubira.
The person in charge of the production company also promotes one of the great innovations of the edition: the duel box, in which two candidates imitate the same artist but with different songs. He also promises that the artistic quality of the season is above average: “In every gala there are three, four numbers to keep your mouth open.” Also, this time the audience on set (600 votes) and not the viewers at home decide on the winner of the edition in a final gala that has already been recorded and thus decide not to be live. .
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“For the first time in a long time we didn’t know who might win,” admits comedian and impersonator Carlos Latre, who described the edition as “very talented” from the very first gala, on a stage that he defends transforms everyone evening to a great concert. “We are privileged to experience from row zero a show that is inimitable,” he says. His jury partner, singer Lolita Flores, appreciates that there is a space for music in a TV scene where “unfortunately there isn’t one”. “It’s a program where people learn the truth. Between us we love each other and it shows and goes through,” says the actress, who affirms that she would never leave her jury chair. “It’s a hypnotic format,” adds Chenoa, while presenter Manel Fuentes is committed to continuing a format that already works like this: “The big news is the casting.”
The surprise of the edition was undoubtedly Anne Igartiburu, who combines her work as presenter of “Corazón” (TVE) with the challenge of singing and imitating in “Tu cara me suena”. “I hope not to disappoint,” says the Basque communicator. The humorist Agustín Jiménez reveals that working on this program was “like an experience in a camp”, surrounded by colleagues with whom he repeatedly had fits of laughter. An opinion shared by fashion designer Josie. “I had a good time, like at a wedding,” he replies.
