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staradvertiser.com FEBRUARY 2 - 8, 2020 COVERT CROONERS Season 3 of The Masked Singer premieres right after Super Bowl LIV, and the new installment of this simultaneously strange and beautiful series promises to be bigger and better than ever. Host Nick Cannon returns along with the previous seasons’ judges: actors Ken Jeong and Jenny McCarthy are back on the panel with musicians Robin Thicke and Nicole Scherzinger. Premiering Sunday, Feb. 2, on NBC. WEEKLY NEWS UPDATE LIVE @ THE LEGISLATURE Join Senate and House leadership as they discuss upcoming legislation and issues of importance to the community. TUESDAY, 8:30AM | CHANNEL 49 | olelo.org/49 olelo.org ON THE COVER | THE MASKED SINGER Musical mystery Season 3 of ‘The Masked tery celebrities — more than any season so artists by trade — such as the Empress of far. Soul, Gladys Knight, who took third place in Singer’ premieres after Unlike most performance competitions, Season 1, and last season’s high-ranking Super Bowl LIV “The Masked Singer” does not recruit previ- competitors Patti LaBelle, Seal and runner- ously unknown talents to vie for a prize. In up Chris Daughtry — most are taking a leap, By Breanna Henry this reality series, it’s celebrities who face off amazing judges, fans and even themselves TV Media against one another for fan votes, and each with their vocal chops. Simply imagining the episode features spectacular musical per- celebs that could appear on the upcoming here is an absolute smorgasbord of formances. The catch is that the celebrities season of “The Masked Singer” is fun — and reality television to choose from these are wearing elaborate costumes that con- imagining is all we can do. Series producers Tdays, and performance competi- ceal their identities. Referred to only by the have said that a mere 25 people actually tions make up a large percentage of name of their costume, a contestant is not know the identities of the contestants be- the most watched. It seems like unmasked until they are voted off of the fore the big reveals. we can’t get enough of shows like show, and despite Nick Cannon’s shouts The story behind the series is a good one. “American Idol,” “The Voice” and of “I knew it!” and hints given throughout, Sometime in 2018, Smart Dog Media (a “America’s Got Talent,” but there’s the final reveal is always a shock. reality television production company) CEO one such series that sets itself apart The man or woman behind the Craig Plestis became distracted, as we all from the rest. mask could be anyone. so often are, by the TV while dining out in Season 3 of “The Masked The Season 1 contes- Thailand. Looking around, Plestis noticed Singer” premieres Sunday, tant known as The that most of the guests had abandoned Feb. 2, on Fox, right after Raven turned out to be both their conversations and their meals in Super Bowl LIV, and the talk show host Ricki favor of watching the weird program airing new installment of this si- Lake, and last sea- on the television. It featured a “crazy kan- multaneously strange and son’s Ice Cream and garoo in a pleather outfit” dancing around beautiful series promises Thingamajig shocked on stage and singing. Entranced by what he to be bigger and better audiences when had seen (and the other diners’ reactions to than ever. Series host they revealed them- it), Plestis and his dining companions didn’t Nick Cannon (“Berserk” selves to be profes- even finish their food before beginning to 2019) returns along with sional video gamer Tyler research the series. the previous seasons’ “Ninja” Blevins and NBA He discovered that the program origi- judges: actors Ken Jeong star Victor Oladipo, nated in South Korea in 2015 as “King of (“The Casagrandes”) and Jenny respectively. While Mask Singer” (or the much more fun literal McCarthy (“Return of the Mac”) some of the masked translation, “Mystery Music Show: Masked are back on the panel with musi- singers are recording Singer’s King”). By the time Plestis saw it for cians Robin Thicke and Nicole the first time, the show had already become Scherzinger. 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This series is Connor Jessup (“Falling Skies”), Emilia Jones based on the popular graphic novel series cre- (“Utopia”) and Jackson Robert Scott (“The ated by Joe Hill, and you won’t want to miss the WHAT’S NEW ON CBS ALL Prodigy,” 2019) star as the three Locke siblings thrills it has to offer. — Tyler, Kinsey and Bode — in this new series ACCESS premiering Friday, Feb. 7. When their father “Interrogation” is brutally murdered, the children move to WHAT’S NEW ON APPLE Massachusetts with their mother, Nina (Darby On Thursday, Feb. 6, follow a 30-year investiga- Stanchfield, “Scandal”), and into her family TV PLUS tion in this new true crime series that lets view- ers take the reins. Based on the real-life case home, Keyhouse. 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