The Voice ended its disappointing and problematic second season as former backup singer Jermaine Paul won the show’s prize, separated by only four percentage points from runner-up Juliet Simms. Carson Daly only mentioned percentage points instead of actual vote totals, probably because the latter would have been embarrassing. Just one-quarter of a percentage point separated …
At the end of season two, one thing is clear about The Voice: NBC and producer Mark Burnett screwed up their surprise hit. They squandered both the momentum of a strong first season and ridiculously high ratings from the post-Super Bowl debut, in part because they failed to learn what didn’t work in season one. …
In the battle of the music competition series, there’s been an unexpected turnaround in the past few weeks, as American Idol, while suffering significantly lower ratings than last year, is now the number-one TV series, beating The Voice among all viewers and younger viewers. Variety reports that The Voice was “finishing higher than Idol in …
The Voice aired its first real results show last night, and the result was something in between the tedium and awfulness of American Idol‘s typically bloated results shows and the entertaining hour of television that always is So You Think You Can Dance‘s results shows–although I should have written “was,” since SYTYCD’s results have been …
The cat that Cee Lo Green often holds and pets as if he was Dr. Evil during The Voice is not his: it’s a rental that has two trainers and costs about $350 an hour. Cee Lo told USA TODAY recently that he’s with her when he’s in Los Angeles, and he said, “Purrfect is …
With 111.3 million viewers, the Super Bowl was the most-watched television show ever, and NBC’s post-game debut of The Voice benefitted significantly from that: it had 37.6 million viewers and an insane 16.3 rating among adults 18 to 49, which made it the highest-rated non-sports show on any network in six years. NBC also announced …
After the Super Bowl ended with some hard-to-top drama and suspense, The Voice‘s second season began somewhat abruptly, about 10 minutes before its scheduled start. Its blind auditions were as entertaining as ever, except that they came in-between a barrage of ads that seemed excessive even after having just watched the Super Bowl. After nearly …