The Invisible Man (game show) explained

Genre:Entertainment show
Creator:Mikhail Krikunenko

Olga Volodina Elena Kotunova

Presenter:Evelina Bledans
Theme Music Composer:Georgy Lebedev
Country:Russia
Language:Russian
Num Seasons:15
Num Episodes:150
Executive Producer:Olga Volodina Elena KotunovaMikhail Krikunenko
Producer:Gennady Podborodnikov
Location:Moscow
Camera:Multi-camera
Runtime:48 minutes
Company:AVK Production,Pan-Ars
Channel:TV-3
Last Aired:present

The Invisible Man (Russian: Человек-невидимка) is a television entertainment show of Russian origin aired on TV-3 channel.[1] [2] The show's format is created by Mikhail Krikunenko, Olga Volodina, and Elena Kotunova. The television show is co-produced by AVK Production[3] and Pan-Ars.

The show premiered on 8 February 2013, and has aired with Evelina Bledans as its host until now.[4] This weekly show airs each Friday evening at 7:00 P.M.

The international distributor for the show is Dori Media Group.

Format

Experts strive to identify each episode's celebrity guest whom they cannot see or communicate with. Unlike the experts, the viewers know the celebrity's name from the start of each episode.

Six experts represent sciences and paranormal fields. These experts are a forensic scientist, psychologist, shaman, fortuneteller, magician, and palm reader. They stay and work in a TV studio.

The experts try to identify the celebrity's features, character, occupation and even his name. Since the experts cannot see or communicate with the celebrity, they must use their unique skills and general knowledge to identify him or her. They examine materials received from the celebrity: hair, nail pieces, photos of palm lines, scent examples, teeth marks, fingerprints, blood and saliva samples, drawings, completed psychological tests, and dreams.

This show is structured as three phases and a closing round.

The show’s slogan

You will have enough time to think how well you do know yourself!

Show rounds and rules

Throughout each episode, the celebrity and his/her support team of friends and relatives stay offstage in two separate studious. They watch everything going on via monitors and can comment on anything at any time.

In the first round, each expert describes the celebrity's appearance: gender, age, height, figure, and hair and eye color. The experts receive the materials they need for their descriptions in advance, so they can study them on their own before studio shooting.

In the second round, each expert works with materials and data he receives in the studio; and has just two minutes to make his conclusions.

In this round the experts reveal the celebrity's secrets, especially about his/her health and life. The experts also talk about the celebrity's character, hidden inclinations and vices. They talk about the guest's past, his present unrealized talents, and future.

In the third round, the experts receive photos of eleven different celebrities who are similar to the guest plus one of the celebrity. Each expert has one minute to choose and show his choice of the celebrity's photo.

In the closing round, the celebrity appears in front of the experts, enabling them to clarify any controversial and outstanding points.

The Expert Panel

Victor Kolkutin, Doctor of Medical Science, professor, forensic scientist

Maria Pugacheva, psychologist

Dardo Kusto, shaman

Aida Martirosyan, fortuneteller

Roman Fad, magician and medium

Boris Akimov, palm reader

Season overview

Release numberSeason 1Season 2Season 3Season 4Season 5Season 6Season 7Season 8Season 9Season 10Season 11Season 12Season 13Season 14Season 15
1Nikita DzhigurdaAlexander PeskovNikolay ValuevKirill KozakovAlexander RevvaMikhail GalustyanEkaterina VarnavaMasha RasputinaAziza Olga ShelestSergey PakhomovIrina BezrukovaDariya Voskoboeva †Ekaterina SkulkinaOlga Buzova2
2Larisa DolinaMasha MalinovskayaIrina KhakamadaNatalya BestemyanovaKostya TszyuMaksim VitorganFatima KhaduevaKirill SafonovIrina SaltykovaDmitry Maryanov †Alyona VodonaevaProkhor ChaliapinDmitry KhrustalyovOlga Orlova 2DAVA
3Alexey PaninAlexander BuinovVyacheslav MalafeevLolitaAnastasia VolochkovaAnastasia StotskayaAngelica AgurbashOlga BuzovaVictor SaltykovAvraam RussoLena LeninaYana TroyanovaRoman PopovMarina FedunkivTatiana Vasilyeva
4Stanislav SadalskiyAlika SmekhovaDarya DontsovaAnzhelika VarumPavel DerevyankoMitya FominVera SotnikovaLindaRoman ZhukovArtyom MikhalkovAlexander NosikIlya SafronovNataliTutta LarsenVlad Topalov
5Lera KudryavtsevaEmmanuil VitorganVictoria LopyrevaMaria ButyrskayaYana PoplavskayaTatiana VolosozharMikhail PolitseymakoEkaterina VolkovaMargarita SuhankinaOlga OrlovaAnastasiya MakeyevaDarya PynzarNatalya AndrejchenkoDana Borisova 2Lyusya Chebotina
6JasminNatasha KorolevaAlyona SviridovaIgor NikolaevEgor KonchalovskyAnatoly WassermanRosa SyabitovaValery GarkalinArkady UkupnikVladimir LyovkinAlexey VorobyovTimur RodriguezVictor VasilyevVlad Topalov
7Boris MoiseevAlexey YagudinSergey PenkinVictor DrobyshOlga BudinaAnastasia ZavorotnyukAlexander InshakovTatiana VedeneyevaN/AElena ValyushkinaVictor LoginovDominic JokerSvetlana KamyninaMarina Anisina
8Anfisa ChekhovaShuraN/ADmitry MalikovVyacheslav RazbegaevValery NikolaevZhanna EppleSvetlana PermyakovaGlukozaYulia NachalovaLyubov TolkalinaOlga DibtsevaYana Koshkina
9N/AAlla DovlatovaNatalia GulkinaMaksim DunayevskyOlga ProkofievaBoris GrachevskyVladimir DolinskyVictor RybinAlice GrebenshchikovaNikita PresnyakovN/ASergey MayorovN/A
10Tatiana BulanovaEdgard ZapashnyNatalya SeleznyovaAlyona ApinaTatyana LyutaevaKatya LelTatyana KravchenkoYulia VolkovaPavel TrubinerVladimir Epifantsev
11Andrey SokolovNikas SafronovN/AN/AN/AN/AMargarita DrobiazkoVadim KazachenkoAristarkh VenesLolita 2
12Bari AlibasovDana BorisovaSoso PavliashviliSergey MazaevDiana ShuryginaEvelina Bledans
13N/AN/AIrina PegovaYuliya SamoylovaVitaly GogunskyN/A
14Alexander LitvinTatiana LarinaOlga Mashnaya
15N/AN/ADarya Moroz
16Nicole Kuznetsova

Episode List

Legend

The expert correctly identified the hero of the program, choosing in the third round of his photo

The expert incorrectly identified the hero of the program, choosing in the third round photo of another famous person

Notes and References

  1. http://tv3.ru/programs/chelovek-nevidimka/ “The Invisible Man” show official website
  2. http://ru.hellomagazine.com/kino-i-televidenie/teleshou/5353-show-must-go-on-10-luchshikh-otechestvennykh-teleshou-oseni.html Voronchikhina, Ekaterina (5 September 2014) “Show Must Go On: Top 10 Best Shows of the Autumn Season”. Retrieved 5 September 2014.
  3. http://avk-tv.com/nevidimka.html “AVK Production” official website
  4. http://rutube.ru/metainfo/tv/1329/ “The Invisible Man” episodes (2013-present), in Russian, on RuTube