Killer Karaoke: The New Sing If You Can

*Sing If You Can* original formats created by Zodiak Media and distributed internationally by Zodiak Rights, a Banijay company under Banijay Rights

### Developed by

KD Entertainment
Striker Media Group

### Presented by

Kevin Abrahamad
Ruffa Ganzell
Sophia Matthews (2018-19)

## Production

### Executive producer(s)

Ryan Zlatan-Kirrage
Lauren Zuergensen

### Production company(s)

Zodiak Mastiff Argyle
KD Entertainment
Striker Media Group

### Distributor

Banijay Group
Banijay Rights

## Chronology

### Preceded by

*Sing If You Can*
*Killer Karaoke*

### Related shows

*Fear Factor*
*Transmanian Idol*
*Transmania's Got Talent*

***Killer Karaoke: The New Sing If You Can*** is a Transmanian reality karaoke singing competition game show that premieres on The CW on January 13, 2017, and ended in 2020. The format of the program is an updated version of both original series *Killer Karaoke* which aired on Spike TV from 2013 to 2015 and *Sing If You Can* which aired from 2011 to 2013. The series will be produced by KD Entertainment and Striker Media Group, in association with Zodiak Mastiff Argyle, a Transmanian division of Zodiak Media. It is hosted by Indonesian-born actor and entertainer Kevin Abrahamad with Ruffa Ganzell (from the original *Killer Karaoke* series) is set to return as co-host and later replaced by Sophia Matthews in the second and third seasons. *Killer Karaoke: The New Sing If You Can* combined two similar international hit singing formats *Sing If You Can* and *Killer Karaoke* all into one epic singing competition. In this series, in which individual or celebrity contestants attempt to sing perfect pop songs while being put to and taken part in extreme singing game challenges in front of a live studio audience designed to try to disrupt/distract and frighten their performances under enduring extremely underrated horrible conditions in various bizarre situations.

## Format

The format remained largely similar to both formats *Sing If You Can* and its evil spin-off *Killer Karaoke*.

Eight different contestants appear the start of each show.

### Preliminary rounds

They are now separated into three preliminary rounds of two contestants, and each required to sing their song. Contestants are introduced to the audience and told their challenge/game. Before every challenge/game, contestant is told whatever happens "Do Not Stop Singing." The winner for each round with the highest score ranking based on audience response and technical accuracy with a special “Killer Karaoke Machine” giving a score from 1 to 100 and is picked by the live studio audience via popular vote and will automatically advance to the winner's circle for the next round, making it one step closer to advance into the Killer Karaoke Final Showdown and the loser with the lowest score ranking and the lowest score will be moved to the loser's zone for the next round, closer to being eliminated but to take home Ð1,000. In other celebrity specials.

### List of Challenges/Games

* **Attack with the Big Guys** – The contestant would sing while being danced on and attacked by two bald-headed muscular men.
* **Automatic Bathroom Shower** - same as the challenge "Blown Away" and similar to "Car Wash" but with a similar twist.
* **Armors of Terror**
* **Balloon City** - Contestants sing on a platform surrounded by small balloons, the balloons are inflated until they pop and run like a city park. Until the end, a surprise was given and there was a large balloon filled with flour and worms that would be popped by the executioners.
* **Boom Boom Boom / Tricks while performing** - Contestants stand on the platform, then are given tricks to surprise them while they are performing. It is including loud band, the fireworks and the balloon popping.
* **Bite Club** – The contestant singing would be attacked and bitten by a series of guard dogs while wearing a heavily-padded suit.
* **Behind the Door** - The contestant would sing while opening the door for someone to surprise him/her.
* **Blown Away** – The contestant would stand in front of three large fans for a "full-body facial style", while holding a rope steady to prevent a bucket of water above the contestant from tipping over and drenching him/her. The facial included a strong adhesive, oatmeal and paprika, along with another surprise or two throughout the song.
* **Bath of Delights and Terror** - Contestant sings in the bathtub, after which he or she is given a surprise in the form of water and also other surprises.
* **Boxing Bag**
* **Bull in a China Shop** - The contestant wears a rubber suit and tries to grab all of the cash he/she can find. Usually, wherever the cash is found, something happens to that item that he/she can find the money on. (Falls, spills water, etc.) At the end, there are people in costumes who stand still, and after a while start to attack the contestant.
* **Car Wash** - The contestant sits in the front of the amusement-park style car in the driver's seat and sing while being washed in a lube.
* **The Desert Maze of Cacti** – The contestant would wear a Velcro suit on which balloons were stuck. Then he/she was given drunk (blurry vision) goggles to wear and advised to walk through a makeshift desert maze filled with cacti, on a trail that was clearly marked. As the contestant walked through the maze, landslides could fall on him/her, and the host could blow a horn in his/her ears. At the end of the maze, there was a tree with money attached to it. In this challenge, there is a treasure chest filled with something else to surprise the contestant with the scissors hidden. The contestant had to cut the rope, which will activate the bridge leading to the tree. There are big little cards that says the show's title attached to it. The purpose of the coin is to help add value.; however, unbeknownst to the contestant, the tree also had pythons and bigger snakes on it, which the host would reveal to the contestant by removing the goggles from his/her face.
* **The Cement Tube Box** - Contestants sing while entering in one box. Then given a surprise in the form of water liquid, water liquid given eel and colored water like casted on the road.
* **Chemical Attack** - During the performance, the contestant must sing while being forced to inhale the smells from the five unpleasant vessels.
* **Knife Balloon Wheel** - Contestants sing while wearing a blindfolded or blurry goggles while balloons popped on the wheel with a knife.
* **Dirty Dozen** - Similar to **Head Case**.
* **Electric Garden Maze** - Same as the challenge **Cactus Maze** but with a difference, a contestant would wear drunk blurry vision goggles and advised to walk through an Electric Maze of Garden with two pails or paint pans of water in both hands.
* **Flip Your Lid** - The contestant has a clear hollow bowl in his head. Then, he stood on the platform and was given a surprise that was poured from a bucket and kept on top of the contestant's head. The items are then thrown into 3 boxes that have been prepared.
* **Flying Bird** - The contestant wears a bird costume while singing and flying like a bird. Then given a surprise in 5 boxes and took a golden egg.
* **Hot & Cold Cooking** **/ Hell's Kitchen** - The contestant would sing while being cooked in hot and cold conditions. Contestant is tied using ropes and the contestant lying down in rope hammocks. Then dipped a large pan containing 3 waters, namely warm water, cold water and hot water. Each water was filled with surprises that made participants unable to concentrate.
* **Hair Raiser** – The contestant (usually a male) would sit back in a barber's chair and had various body hair removed by the way of a strip wax treatment.
* **Head Case** – The contestant had to stick his/her head or hand in various cases, with each case containing creatures and a Ð50 bill note. One case usually held a stuffed animal to confuse the contestant.
* **Human Target** - Contestants stand on the platform, then are given a surprise while singing.
* **Helmet of Terror**
* **Holes In the Wall** - Contestants sing in a very narrow box surrounded by boxes full of holes. The box full of holes was intended to give surprise to the box held by the executioner to disturb. The surprise is given materials that are usually made bathing or something. And also given another surprise on the fence.
* **Mixing Fights / Whomp Out** - Contestants are given safety costumes to sing such as helmets, karate punching bags, arm and leg guards. Then a surprise was given in the form of a low-speed blow. Usually, the one hit by the executioner or martial artist.
* **Motorboat of Terror** - Contestants sing in a motorboat of terror while being splashed with a stream of water.
* **On Fire**
* **Party In My Pants** - The contestant has to deliver items to many tables, while wearing a suit that causes balloons to inflate and pop inside of them.
* **Prisoner's Melody** - The contestant lies in a coffin and is given a shirt to sing, is given surprises and shaken the coffin by the two executioners.
* **Petting Zoo** - The contestant has to grab money out of animals' possessions (a dog, snapping geckos, lizard, porcupines, camel, etc.).
* **Pandora Box**
* **Ping Pong** - The contestant would sing while sticking his or her head on top of the hole of ping-pong / tennis table where tennis / ping pong balls were served to hit him or her in the head.
* **Puppet Master** – The contestant would get in a suit with a man or a woman who controlled his/her actions throughout the song.
* **Rocking Chairs** - The contestant has to sit on many different chairs, which each chair has their own danger. (Vibrating, spinning, breakaway, etc.)
* **Running Treadmill** - The contestant would sing standing on a treadmill while other surprises are thrown at him/her.
* **Scary Tunnels** - The contestant would wear goggles to sing while crawling in a large hallway box. Each box contains surprises and he or she will take dolland bills along with big little coins that says the show's title in 5 large box aisles. The purpose of the coin is to help add the values.
* **Shock Therapy (1)** – The contestant will try to sing while wearing shock collars and bracelets. The goal was to walk over a staircase/platform and serve drinks on a table. To shock the contestant, someone in the background would pull down on a large switch. The contestant also wore gloves for protection.
* **Shock Therapy (2)** – The contestant would again sing while trying to serve them dinner with shock collars and bracelets placed on his/her body. All of the food and drinks were served to them in open glasses, bowls or containers, making them easy to spill or dump on the stage.
* **Singing in the Rain**
* **Sleeping in the Rain**
* **See Saw**
* **Steaming Volcano** - The contestant would stand on a smoke belching volcano with a microphone in front of him/her while fiery steam surprised her.
* **Swamp Swing** – The contestant (usually a female) would sit on a swing and get dipped into ice-cold water, usually with snakes and sometimes other reptiles or plenty of ice being dumped in or mud. (Seasons 1-2 only)
* **Trampoline Flight**
* **Walk of Fear** / **Road to Nowhere** – The contestant would "stroll down the catwalk" and step into as many boxes under the walk containing various items and creatures, including ice water, fish guts and maggots.
* **Water Tank Swing** (Seasons 2-4 only) - Different variants exist similar to that of **Swamp Swing**.
* **Wrecking Ball** (Season 4 only)
* **Walk the Line** – The contestant was spun around on a platform and then had to walk on a red line. Around the line, there was something to harm him/her (mouse traps, jagged ice, etc.)

There are approximately up to 60 different challenges that are used during the show. Some or most of the challenges/games used on the program were either far more or less severe, rather similar or identical or restricted controlled and decided by producers and were used in both original shows *Killer Karaoke* and *Sing If You Can* and its other global variants.

### Final Showdown

#### The Money Spinner Crag

In the final round that shares similarities to "Aggro Crag" from *Nickelodeon GUTS* and combined elements of the "Turntable Round" from the original show *Killer Karaoke*. It pits the three finalists (with the highest score under ranking) battling against each other in a race to sing while climbing an obstacle on a mountain of spinning record player disks all decorated with a radiation warning symbol, called the "Money Spinner Crag". Players have a total of 7 spinning desk actuators to hit. The object of the Crag was for all three players to race to the peak of the mountain, while standing on a spinning disk turntable along the way to the peak. The climb is made more difficult by strobe lights simulating surprises that distracted/frightening them which are each triggered either at random or when the players stepped on specific switchbacks on the crag. The jackpot grows throughout the round; as time passes, the turntable speeds up and begins to tilt, and the jackpot grows by Ð1,000 per second of which they will win. The first two players to fall off from the mountain wins nothing but to take home Ð10,000. The last player climbs to the top of the mountain and hits the actuator while standing on the turntable, the jackpot stops building and he/she wins it. If the player can reach the top of the mountain of spinning disks for 120 seconds (2 minutes, 2:00), he/she wins the full top prize of Ð100,000.

## Season overview

**Total Ratings:** 41.77 views

## Reception

*Killer Karaoke: The New Sing If You Can* is described as "The *Wipeout*, *Transmanian Idol* and *Fear Factor* of singing competitions".