The Masked Singer presenter Joel Dommett has promised that the new ITV show will be "different" to what has come before.
The new reality series will see a panel of judges – namely Jonathan Ross, Rita Ora, Davina McCall and Ken Jeong – try to guess which celebrity is disguised in an elaborate costume while they sing.
While it sounds pretty outlandish, the format has already proved a hit around the world, and it seems UK viewers are in for a "fun" experience too.
"I really hope it will do as well as the American version," Joel said. "I've just been in Australia and they've got a version there as well, and that did really well.
"And it's in Germany as well. So it's done really well in every country it's been in, so I kind of hope that the English people love it as much as everyone else does."
The presenter added: "It's just so joyous. It's so different to anything else we've seen before and it's quite tongue in cheek about other shows that might look similar.
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"And it's really lovely to see that fun back on television on Saturday nights again and it's just really great. I never enjoy watching stuff I'm in and I really enjoyed that."
Joel also teased some of the celebrities taking part, promising some "massive household names" would grace the stage.
"They come from very different facets of life and they're definitely way better than I anticipated them to be, which is great," he continued.
"I think we all felt a lot of pressure in terms of we knew how much it relied on the cast because if it was disappointment after disappointment after disappointment, people would just turn off. But it really delivers on every level. There's some people in there that you would not anticipate on them doing a show like this at all.
"It's nice to find out why they did it and what they got out of it... it's a lot of emotion for people a lot of the time. And that's what brings a lot of heart to it, that reason why people have done it.
"And it's nice to see people doing things for not necessarily a selfish reason... People found out a lot about themselves as they went further and pushed themselves further."
The Masked Singer premieres on ITV on January 4 and continues on January 5.
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