External links
- Official website, on raiplay.it
- Tale e quale show at IMDb
Media related to Tale e quale show at Wikimedia Commons
| Tale e quale show | |
|---|---|
| Genre | talent show, variety show |
| Created by | Carlo Conti |
| Based on | Tu cara me suena |
| Screenplay by | Maurizio Pagnussat |
| Presented by | Carlo Conti |
| Judges | Loretta Goggi Giorgio Panariello Cristiano Malgioglio Claudio Lippi Christian De Sica Vincenzo Salemme Enrico Montesano Alessia Marcuzzi Gigi Proietti Claudio Amendola Elettra Lamborghini Alessandro Siani |
| Composer | Pinuccio Pirazzoli |
| Country of origin | Italy |
| Original language | Italian |
| No. of seasons | 15 |
| No. of episodes | 108 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Monica Avanzini |
| Producer | Stefano Riganello |
| Production location | Italy |
| Cinematography | Daniele Pecorelli Matteo Cellini Marco Marinotti |
| Running time | 150 minutes |
| Production company | Endemol Shine Italy |
| Original release | |
| Network | Rai |
| Release | 20 April 2012 – present |
| Network | Rai 1 |
Tale e quale show (lit. 'Just like the 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.
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 Fabrizio Frizzi Television Studios.
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.
| Judge | Season | Total | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | ||
| Loretta Goggi | 13 | ||||||||||||||||
| Giorgio Panariello | 8 | ||||||||||||||||
| Cristiano Malgioglio | 6 | ||||||||||||||||
| Claudio Lippi | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
| Christian De Sica | |||||||||||||||||
| Vincenzo Salemme | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| Enrico Montesano | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| Alessia Marcuzzi | |||||||||||||||||
| Gigi Proietti | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| Claudio Amendola | |||||||||||||||||
| Elettra Lamborghini | |||||||||||||||||
| Alessandro Siani | |||||||||||||||||
| Season | Presenter | Period | Episodes | Competitors | Jury | Winner | Television studio | Site | Director | Network | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start | End | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Carlo Conti | 20 April 2012 | 11 May 2012 | 4 | 8 | Christian De Sica | Loretta Goggi | Claudio Lippi | Serena Autieri | Studios (formerly De Paolis) | Rome | Maurizio Pagnussat | Rai 1 |
| 2 | 14 September 14, 2012 | 2 November 2012 | 8 | Giò Di Tonno | |||||||||
| 3 | 13 September 2013 | 13 November 2013 | 9 | 10 | Attilio Fontana | Studio 5 of the Fabrizio Frizzi Television Studios | |||||||
| 4 | 12 September 2014 | 7 November 2014 | 8 | 12 | Serena Rossi | ||||||||
| 5 | 11 September 2015 | 23 October 2015 | 7 | Gigi Proietti | Francesco Cicchella | Theater 9 of the Studios (formerly De Paolis) | |||||||
| 6 | 16 September 2016 | 4 November 2016 | 8 | Claudio Amendola | Enrico Montesano | Silvia Mezzanotte | |||||||
| 7 | 22 September 2017 | 11 November 2017 | Christian De Sica | Marco Carta | Studio 5 of the Fabrizio Frizzi Television Studios | ||||||||
| 8 | 14 September 2018 | 26 October 2018 | 7 | Vincenzo Salemme | Giorgio Panariello | Antonio Mezzancella | |||||||
| 9 | September 13, 2019 | October 18, 2019 | 6 | Agostino Penna | |||||||||
| 10 | 18 September 2020 | 23 October 2020 | 10 | Pago | |||||||||
| 11 | 27 September 2021 | 5 November 2021 | 8 | 11 | Cristiano Malgioglio | Gemelli di Guidonia | |||||||
| 12 | 30 September 2022 | 11 November 2022 | 7 | Antonino Spadaccino | |||||||||
| 13 | 22 September 2023 | 3 November 2023 | Luca Gaudiano | ||||||||||
| 14 | 20 September 2024 | 8 November 2024 | 8 | Alessia Marcuzzi | Gemelli di Guidonia | ||||||||
| 15 | 26 September 2025 | 7 November 2025 | 7 | 10 | Tony Maiello | ||||||||
From the second to the thirteenth season, at the end of the programme, a mini-tournament was announced, known precisely as Tale e quale show - Il torneo, in which the best classified of the most recent season challenged competitors of the previous season to decide the champion of the two series.
At the end of the second season, a special episode called Tale e quale show - Duetti was produced, in which the contestants of the first two seasons of the programme challenged each other in duets.
At the end of the eighth season of the show and from the tenth season onwards, a spin-off entitled Tali e quali 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.
After the fifth, eleventh and twelfth seasons, a Christmas-themed spin-off entitled Natale e quale show was produced, in which some contestants from previous seasons performed Christmas-themed songs.
At the end of the third and fourth seasons of Tali e quali, a spin-off entitled Tale e quale Sanremo was produced, in which the contestants from the previous seasons performed songs from the Sanremo Music Festival.
| Number | Network | Year | Season | Programming | Time slot | Average audience | Premiere | Source | Finale | Source | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L | M | M | G | V | S | D | Viewers | Share | Viewers | Share | Viewers | Share | |||||||
| 1 | Rai 1 | 2012 | Spring | Prime time | 5,412,000 | 22.54% | 5,470,000 | 21.84% | 5,566,000 | 24.72% | |||||||||
| 2 | Summer-autumn | 5,437 000 | 22.35% | 4,620,000 | 19.68% | 5 856 000 | 24.46% | ||||||||||||
| 3 | 2013 | 5,758 000 | 24.82% | 5,172,000 | 24.02% | 5 524 000 | 23.75% | ||||||||||||
| 4 | 2014 | 5,827,000 | 26.18% | 5,477,000 | 26.74% | 6,653,000 | 28.54% | ||||||||||||
| 5 | 2015 | 5,069,000 | 23.44% | 4,817,000 | 23.64% | 5,267,000 | 24.02% | ||||||||||||
| 6 | 2016 | 4 940,000 | 22.92% | 4,591,000 | 21.81% | 5,054,000 | 23.15% | ||||||||||||
| 7 | 2017 | Autumn | 4,496,000 | 21.80% | 4,572,000 | 22.13% | 4,028,000 | 21.13% | |||||||||||
| 8 | 2018 | Summer-autumn | 4,319,000 | 21.58% | 4,430,000 | 23.24% | 4,425,000 | 21.99% | |||||||||||
| 9 | 2019 | 3,807,000 | 19.69% | 3,844,000 | 21.46% | 3,903,000 | 19.54% | ||||||||||||
| 10 | 2020 | 3,904,000 | 18.87% | 3,524,000 | 18.90% | 4,209,000 | 19.10% | ||||||||||||
| 11 | 2021 | 4,148,000 | 21.96% | 3,969,000 | 22.48% | 4,509,000 | 22.60% | ||||||||||||
| 12 | 2022 | Autumn | 3,930,000 | 23.95% | 3,385,000 | 21.10% | 4,454,000 | 28.10% | |||||||||||
| 13 | 2023 | Autumn | 3,492,000 | 22.88% | 2,974,000 | 20.60% | 3,913,000 | 25.08% | |||||||||||
| 14 | 2024 | Summer-autumn | 3,266,000 | 21.33% | 3,012,000 | 19,87% | 3,429,000 | 22.64% | |||||||||||
| 15 | 2025 | Autumn | 2,971,000 | 20.13% | 2,783,000 | 19.30% | 3 142 000 | 21.60% | |||||||||||
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