The Voice‘s season-one winner, Javier Colon, is touring next month, starting a few days before the second season of the NBC series begins. AEG Live has provided me with a pair of tickets for E.mail me your contact information: your name (both as it appears on your photo ID and as it appears on your …
Asked about The Voice judge Adam Levine’s comments about the lack of out gay contestants on American Idol, the Fox show’s producer gave an idiotic response. This comes as no surprise, because when it comes to issues of sexuality, Nigel Lythgoe has his head completely up his arse. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Nigel …
The Voice coach and Maroon 5 lead singer Adam Levine has criticized American Idol for refusing to do what his series did easily and without difficultly: letting gay contestants be open about their sexual orientations. In an interview with Out magazine, Adam discusses The Voice‘s Fox rival, giving it credit but noting that it’s very …
Javier Colon became the first winner of NBC’s The Voice last night, winning a recording contract and $100,000 for beating Dia Frampton, who came within 2 percent of the final vote and who sold more singles than Javier did after the final performance episode. Her “Inventing Shadows” leads iTunes’ sales chart, followed by Javier’s “Stitch …
The Voice ends its first season tonight, having successfully done what no other network show has been able to do: reinvent the singing competition to stand apart from–and improve upon–American Idol. It also brought viewers to NBC, and was another success for Mark Burnett and his brand of (usually) high-quality reality television. As a watchable, …
Problems with The Voice‘s audio last week that created a delay and/or echo for some viewers will be fixed for its final episodes this week, according to an NBC affiliate. The bad quality was blamed on the surround sound mix. A representative for NBC’s Tampa/St. Pete affiliate WFLA told the St. Petersburg Times’ Eric Deggans …
The Voice has become a solid hit for NBC, and The Hollywood Reporter has a detailed story about the Mark Burnett-produced competition and how it came to be. It also reveals how much it costs–$2.3 million an hour–and how much of a premium the show paid for Christina Aguilera ($150,000 more an hour than the …