Your Face Sounds Familiar is a Philippine television reality competition show broadcast by ABS-CBN and Kapamilya Channel.
[6] Jed Madela, Gary Valenciano and Toni Gonzaga were initially reported to serve as judges for the first season.
On two weekends, Gary Valenciano temporarily left the show to fulfill his commitment of performing in a series of concerts.
In August 2015, Melai Cantiveros, the winner of the first season was announced to co-host the show, impersonating different icons for each week.
[8] Sharon Cuneta, Gary Valenciano, Jed Madela, and Billy Crawford were announced to return to the show to reprise their former duties.
However, the plans for the third season was postponed following the implementation of the Enhanced community quarantine in Luzon in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines, which prompted the network to suspend it's tapings, as well as the shutdown of ABS-CBN free-to-air stations in the said year.
Also, during the Enhanced community quarantine in Luzon, the first Kids season was re-aired on the primetime slot from March–May 2020 as part of the network's temporary programming changes, taking the timeslot of second season of The Voice Teens However, the reruns were abruptly stopped after May 3, 2020, due to the closure of ABS-CBN's free-to-air assets following the cease and desist order issued by the National Telecommunications Commission on account of its franchise expiration.
but however, as an enhanced community quarantine was reimposed in the Greater Manila Area in response to the surge of COVID-19 cases caused by the variants of the said disease, the plans for a duet episode was scrapped, and a compilation of Week 1's performances was re-aired instead.
[12] For 12 or 13 weeks, all the celebrity contestants (four male, four female, in some cases groups composed of individuals of either gender) competes for a cash prize.
On August 15, 2016, Crawford announced that the show will return with a third season; which was later on revealed as a spin-off entitled Your Face Sounds Familiar Kids at the ABS-CBN Trade Launch.
[16][17] On November 22, 2016, Ogie Alcasid, returned to ABS-CBN, and was revealed to be the newest addition to the show's judges, replacing Madela.