Tale e quale show () is an Italian television programme of the talent show and variety genre, broadcast in prime time on Rai 1 since 20 April 2012 and hosted by Carlo Conti.

The programme is the Italian adaptation of the talent show Tu cara me suena, a Spanish format by Endemol broadcast on Antena 3. In the United Kingdom, it was adapted as Your Face Sounds Familiar.

Format The talent show initially featured a competition between eight celebrities—four men and four women—who impersonated famous singers by reinterpreting their songs live. In 2013, the number of participating artists increased to ten (starting with the second season), and from 2014 to 2019, to twelve. This number then returned to ten in 2020, rose to eleven in 2021, and again to twelve from 2022 to 2023 (when a single, talented couple competed), before finally dropping back to eleven in 2024. At the end of the episode, the contestants are judged by a jury. The current jury consists of Giorgio Panariello, who has been participating since the eighth season, Cristiano Malgioglio, who has been participating since the eleventh season, and Alessia Marcuzzi, who has been participating since the fourteenth season. Previous judges have also included Loretta Goggi, Vincenzo Salemme, Christian De Sica, Enrico Montesano, Claudio Amendola, Claudio Lippi and Gigi Proietti.

Each judge draws up a ranking at the end of the evening, assigning each contestant a different score (starting from a minimum of 5 points and ending with a maximum of 12, 14, 15, or 16 points, depending on the number of contestants in the competition). Furthermore, each participant is asked to assign five points to an opponent (or to themselves), which are added to those assigned by the judges. This determines the weekly ranking (with a winner of each episode, who will donate the sum won to charity). The points accumulated by the contestants in the previous episode are then calculated, leading to the overall winner, who is declared in the final rankings on the last episode. In the 2013 edition, there was a special episode, held on 13 November, in which an overall score, determined 40% by the voting mechanism described above and 60% by televoting, selected the top seven contestants of the 2013 season, who continued in the competition along with the top three from previous editions.

Tale e quale show is the first prime time programme to be broadcast from the Dear Studios after the name change to .

The programmes behind-the-scenes personnel include Carlo Conti, Ivana Sabatini, Emanuele Giovannini, Leopoldo Siano, Mario D'Amico, Walter Santillo, Stefania De Finis, Claudia Di Giuseppe and Mattia Bravi.

Judges JudgeSeasonTotal12345678910111213141516Loretta Goggi13Giorgio Panariello8Cristiano Malgioglio6Claudio Lippi5Christian De SicaVincenzo Salemme3Enrico Montesano2Alessia MarcuzziGigi Proietti1Claudio AmendolaElettra LamborghiniAlessandro Siani

Seasons SeasonPresenterPeriodEpisodesCompetitorsJuryWinnerTelevision studioSiteDirectorNetworkStartEndCarlo Conti20 April 201211 May 201248Christian De SicaLoretta GoggiClaudio LippiSerena AutieriStudios (formerly De Paolis)RomeMaurizio PagnussatRai 114 September 14, 20122 November 20128Giò Di Tonno13 September 201313 November 2013910Studio 5 of the 12 September 20147 November 2014812Serena Rossi11 September 201523 October 20157Gigi ProiettiTheater 9 of the Studios (formerly De Paolis)16 September 20164 November 20168Claudio AmendolaEnrico MontesanoSilvia Mezzanotte22 September 201711 November 2017Christian De SicaMarco CartaStudio 5 of the 14 September 201826 October 20187Vincenzo SalemmeGiorgio PanarielloAntonio MezzancellaSeptember 13, 2019October 18, 20196Agostino Penna18 September 202023 October 20201027 September 20215 November 2021811Cristiano Malgioglio30 September 202211 November 20227Antonino Spadaccino22 September 20233 November 2023Luca Gaudiano20 September 20248 November 20248Alessia Marcuzzi26 September 20257 November 2025710Tony Maiello

Spin-offs

Tale e quale show - Il torneo From the second to the thirteenth season, at the end of the programme, a mini-tournament was announced, known precisely as , in which the best classified of the most recent season challenged competitors of the previous season to decide the champion of the two series.

Tale e quale show - Duetti At the end of the second season, a special episode called was produced, in which the contestants of the first two seasons of the programme challenged each other in duets.

Tali e quali At the end of the eighth season of the show and from the tenth season onwards, a spin-off entitled was produced, in which ordinary people (non-professionals and not part of the entertainment world) perform, chosen from those who sent the programme's editorial staff amateur videos of their impersonations during the episodes of the recently concluded edition.

Natale e quale show After the fifth, eleventh and twelfth seasons, a Christmas-themed spin-off entitled was produced, in which some contestants from previous seasons performed Christmas-themed songs.

Tale e quale Sanremo At the end of the third and fourth seasons of Tali e quali, a spin-off entitled was produced, in which the contestants from the previous seasons performed songs from the Sanremo Music Festival.

Viewership NumberNetworkYearSeasonProgrammingTime slotAverage audiencePremiereSourceFinaleSourceLMMGVSDViewersShareViewersShareViewersShareRai 12012SpringPrime time5,412,00022.54%5,470,00021.84%5,566,00024.72%Summer-autumn5,437 00022.35%4,620,00019.68%24.46%20135,758 00024.82%5,172,00024.02%23.75%20145,827,00026.18%5,477,00026.74%6,653,00028.54%20155,069,00023.44%4,817,00023.64%5,267,00024.02%20164 940,00022.92%4,591,00021.81%5,054,00023.15%2017Autumn4,496,00021.80%4,572,00022.13%4,028,00021.13%2018Summer-autumn4,319,00021.58%4,430,00023.24%4,425,00021.99%20193,807,00019.69%3,844,00021.46%3,903,00019.54%20203,904,00018.87%3,524,00018.90%4,209,00019.10%20214,148,00021.96%3,969,00022.48%4,509,00022.60%2022Autumn3,930,00023.95%3,385,00021.10%4,454,00028.10%2023Autumn3,492,00022.88%2,974,00020.60%3,913,00025.08%2024Summer-autumn3,266,00021.33%3,012,00019,87%3,429,00022.64%2025autunno2,971,00020.13%2,783,00019.30%3 142 00021.60%

Awards

2013 - , Top Ten Category 2013 - in the Broadcast of the Year category 2014 - , Top Ten Category 2015 - , Top Ten Category 2015 - , Broadcast of the Year category 2016 - , Top Ten Category

References

External links

Official website, on raiplay.it

See also

Your Face Sounds Familiar