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Tuesday, March 5, 2013

New The Voice Promo featuring New Judge Shakira

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

The Voice Finale brings in huge ratings

The Voice‘s Season 3 finale played to 14 million total viewers while scoring a 4.9 demo rating, hitting season highs and up 18 and 11 percent from the NBC competition’s second coronation ceremony.

Over on CBS, NCIS (19.4 mil/3.3) rose 18 percent from last week’s seven-and-a-half-year demo low, while NCIS: Los Angeles (15.4 mil/2.9) was up 12 percent. Vegas (9.8 mil/1.6) managed to tick up a tenth opposite the final hour of The Voice (which was doing 14 mil/5.0).

ABC’s Happy Endings (3.2 mil/1.3) and Apartment 23 (2.6 mil/1.1) both inched up a tenth, while Private Practice‘s Charlotte episode (3.8 mil/1.2) held steady versus The Voice.

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Friday, November 23, 2012

The Voice Runner-up Julie Simms -Wild Child Music Video

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Wednesday, October 3, 2012

TV Ratings: New Girl, New Normal, Go On, Mindy, Dixie, DWTS, The Voice, NCIS & others

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Aired Tuesday:

The Voice
Dancing With The Stars
Raising Hope premiere
NCIS
Hart of Dixie premiere
Ben And Kate
NCIS: Los Angeles
New Girl
Go On
The Next
The Mindy Project
The New Normal
Vegas
Parenthood
Private Practice

CBS was the number one network in adults 18-49 and with total viewers.

On CBS, NCIS earned a 3.6 adults 18-49 rating, down 12% from last week's 4.1. NCIS: Los Angeles scored a 3.1 adults 18-49 rating, down 9% from last week's 3.4. Vegas garnered a 2.1 adults 18-49 rating down 16% from last week's 2.5.

On FOX, the season premiere of Raising Hope scored a 1.7 adults 18-49 rating, down 45% from a 3.1 for last season's premiere on Tuesday, September 20 at 9:30PM, which it followed the highly rated season premiere of New Girl. The second episode of Ben And Kate earned a 1.6 adults 18-49 rating, down 24% from last week's 2.1. New Girl garnered a 2.8 adults 18-49 rating, even with last week's premiere. The Mindy Project notched a 1.9 among adults 18-49, down 21% from last week's 2.4.

On NBC, The Voice best of the auditions clip show earned a 2.9 adults 18-49 rating, down 31% from last week's 4.2. Go On scored a 2.2 18-49 rating, down 19% from last week's 2.7. The New Normal garnered a 1.7 among adults 18-49 down from 15% last week's 2.0. among adults 18-49. Parenthood notched a 1.7 adults 18-49 rating down 6% from last week's 1.8.

On ABC, Dancing with the Stars: All-Stars, garnered a 2.1 adults 18-49, even with last week. Private Practice earned a 1.6 adults 18-49 rating, down 16% from last week's 1.9.

On the CW, the season premiere of Hart Of Dixie scored a 0.7 adults 18-49 rating down from a 0.8 for its series premiere on September 26, 2011 at 9PM but up from a a 0.6 for its season finale on May 15, 2012.The Next earned a 0.3 adults 18-49 rating, matching its last original episode on Thursday ,September 27.

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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

NY TIMES: How Christina Aguilera Changed Judging of Reality TV Music Shows

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Be a Star, Then You Can Judge

Years from now, Christina Aguilera will be remembered for her glamour, her scandalous take on femme-pop and her Brobdingnagian voice. But she should also be remembered as the person who almost single-handedly reshaped music-competition reality programming. Her legacy as a judge on “The Voice,” on NBC, may well turn out to be deeper and more profound than the one she’s forged in her music career.

Securing Ms. Aguilera in 2011 was a coup for a show that needed to differentiate itself from Fox’s “American Idol,” which had just signed Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez as judges.

But for all their fame, Mr. Tyler and Ms. Lopez were past their fertile period as hitmakers. Ms. Aguilera, though not quite in her prime, had been in the Billboard Top 10 as recently as 2008. Of the four mentor-judges of “The Voice,” she was the one most obviously slumming it on this television gig, even though she was coming off a bumpy professional period: a flop album, “Bionic”; an awkward and sloppy rendition of the national anthem at the 2011 Super Bowl; and an arrest on a charge of public intoxication.

But Ms. Aguilera was an undeniable contemporary pop star, and her presence elevated those around her: Blake Shelton, a country star largely unknown outside that world; Adam Levine, the frontman of a popular but ineffectual band, Maroon 5; and Cee Lo Green, accidentally, and briefly, a pop star as part of Gnarls Barkley.

Broadly speaking, it’s because of Ms. Aguilera that on Sunday, after weeks of speculation, it was announced that Nicki Minaj and Keith Urban, contemporary hitmakers both, would become part of the “Idol” judge panel. (They effectively replace Mr. Tyler and Ms. Lopez.) They join Mariah Carey, who signed on in July and is now the panel’s unlikely éminence grise, and Randy Jackson, the lone holdover from “Idol” 1.0.

Ms. Aguilera’s shadow also extends over “The X Factor,” the Fox competition that last week gave its new judge-mentor panel its debut: the two older male executives, L. A. Reid and Simon Cowell, remain from Season 1, but the two women, Paula Abdul and Nicole Scherzinger, have been replaced by more current names: the former Disney star Demi Lovato and the former Aguilera nemesis Britney Spears. Ms. Spears had a No. 1 album last year, and Ms. Lovato has had two Top 20 singles in the last 14 months.

It is no longer a choice between music star and television star. In fact, to be modern, it’s best to be a little of both. Ms. Aguilera, Ms. Spears, Ms. Minaj and Ms. Lovato are all more or less current pop stars. On a smaller scale, the same goes for Mr. Urban, Mr. Shelton, Mr. Green and Mr. Levine. Ms. Carey, while older and more experienced, is certainly still an active pop threat.

As a group, they’re using these shows not as a platform for stalled-career kick-starting, but as part of a portfolio of activities that reflect current music business realities. Network television — even on its worst day — is an extremely dangerous and powerful delivery platform, and one that must look even more attractive as the music industry struggles to sustain its thinning revenue streams.

Originally, these shows were viewed with skepticism, which is perhaps why no current stars initially signed on as judges. The goal of the competitions was to build a star — the judges were central to that narrative, but weren’t meant to create waves of their own. Then Simon Cowell emerged as the great television villain of the Bush years, and the dynamic tilted.

“The Voice” was essentially a heavy bet on the Cowell model, which stipulated that the starmaking was nice, sure, but it could be complemented by judges with their own narratives of celebrity. “Idol,” the only one of these shows in which the judges and contestants have no mentoring relationship, also remains the only one with even a hint of noncelebrity on the panel.

And why wouldn’t current stars flock to these series? They are ratings kingpins, even if they get only half the audience of “American Idol” in its prime. The music industry is good at anointing stars but doesn’t always have the scale to sustain them, especially lately.

And to appear regularly in prime time is an almost certain career boon. For Ms. Spears and Ms. Lovato (and Ms. Aguilera before them), the job has also been cleansing, replacing occasionally unsteady public images with those of responsibility and authority.

And, at some point, they may have new music to promote. Ms. Lopez’s single “On the Floor” reached No. 3 on the pop chart with heavy promotion on “Idol,” and Mr. Tyler’s group, Aerosmith, is on the verge of releasing its first album in eight years. Mr. Levine’s group Maroon 5 has had a string of “Voice”-assisted hits, including “Moves Like Jagger” and “Payphone.”

Last week Ms. Aguilera announced a new album, “Lotus” (RCA), to be released in November. In an interview that appeared on Billboard’s Web site (and was then removed), she indicated that she might be preparing to leave her chair on “The Voice,” at least for a spell.

Beginning to face questions about whether committing to “The Voice” means turning your back on your music career, one of the executive producers, Mark Burnett, insisted to Billboard, “There will never be anyone getting replaced, ever.” Mentors may take seasons off, though, to recharge their batteries, release new music and renew their relevance.

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Wednesday, September 12, 2012

The Voice's Round 2 - Blind Auditions Videos

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Adriana Louise - Domino
The young singer who overcame a personal tragedy wows all four coaches with her "Domino."

Casey Muessigman - Sweet Home Alabama
Former wrestler Casey Muessigman finds a home on Team Blake with "Sweet Home Alabama."

Mackenzie Bourg - Pumped Up Kicks um yas HFT... is he legal?
The young singer wows CeeLo with his "Pumped Up Kicks."

Aquile - Your Song
The 22-year-old singer from San Diego brings soul to spare with his take on Elton's "Your Song."

Julio Cesar Castillo - La Bamba
The lifelong mariachi singer breaks through with his cover of the Ritchie Valens classic "La Bamba."

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TV Ratings Monday: The Voice premieres down, The New Normal & more

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Will the X Factor manage to top this?

Also Aired on Monday: The New Normal, Masterchef, Hell's Kitchen, The LA Complex, Bachelor Pad, US Tennis Open

On NBC, the two-hour premiere of The Voice scored a 4.1 adults 18-49 rating, down -39% from last season's time period premiere on Monday 2/6/12 (6.7/17) and is its lowest-rated premiere.

The premiere of The New Normal garnered a 2.5 18-49 rating.

On FOX, the finale of Hell's Kitchen earned a 2.5, down a tenth from last week's 2.6 rating.

The finale of MasterChef was also down a tenth, earning a 2.6> after last week's 2.7 adults 18-49 rating

On ABC, Bachelor Pad earned a 1.3, down a tenth from last week's 1.4 adults 18-49 rating.

On The CW, The LA Complex matched last week's 0.3 adults 18-49 rating.

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The Voice's ratings last season:

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Monday, September 10, 2012

The Voice Premiere Sneak Peek Videos

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The ratings war with X Factor begins tonight.

If one is good, two must be better, right? That must be the thinking of the team behind "The Voice," which is preparing for its first fall season tonight.

As usual, coaches Christina Aguilera, 2012 MTV Video Music Awards Best Pop Video nominee Adam Levine, Cee Lo Green and Blake Shelton will be facing off against another reality singing competition. Only this time instead of staring down the fading-but-still-formidable "American Idol" they'll be duking it out with the second season of ex-"Idol" baddie Simon Cowell's "X Factor."

But don't think they're coming back with the same old bag of tricks. Producers have thrown a bunch of curveballs  into the mix this time around, including a new wrinkle that will allow coaches to steal players from their fellow stars' teams.

Christina Milian has a sneak peek of tonight's episode.

Carson Daly gives his pre-season predictions for The Voice.

As usual, each coach will again start with 16 players chosen during the blind audition rounds, with the battle rounds cutting their ranks in half. But this time their rivals will have a chance to add two new faces to their team from the other coaches' cut list.

They're not making it easy on Christina, Adam, Cee Lo and Blake, though. Because then they'll have to trim their teams down to five during knock-out rounds in which each singer will pick a song and perform it while the next man or woman up sits on a stool in a boxing ring awaiting their turn.

Once those rounds are over, the live shows will start airing at the end of October. With Britney Spears and VMA pre-show  performer Demi Lovato making their debuts on "Factor" — which will air on a Wednesday-Thursday night schedule while "Voice" takes the Monday-Tuesday slots — viewers are in for some serious star power on both shows.

In addition to the contemporary hitmakers in the signature red chairs, Mary J. Blige, Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong, Michael Buble and Matchbox Twenty's Rob Thomas will be mentoring "Voice" contestants as well.

Compared to the drooping-but-still-leading ratings  from "Idol," which gave up its mantle as the #1 show on TV this year, "Factor" and "The Voice" have room to improve. Cowell's "Factor" managed an average of 12.59 million viewers in its debut last fall, while "Voice" averaged 11.93 million in the spring.

But hints from "Voice" producer Mark Burnett that this may be the final ride for the original judging foursome may kick up the ratings rivalry even more than the action on the stage. And while Aguilera and Levine have had their fair share of sniping on the show, one thing we haven't seen yet is claws coming out between former chart competitors and "Mickey Mouse Club" alums Spears and Xtina.

"I came up with Britney ... we were very close," Aguilera told reporters  earlier this month. "Our paths have always crossed. They're going to continue to cross. I welcome her to this family of fun and entertainment and finding new talent. Britney's a pro."

With modest sales so far from season one winner Javier Colon and runner-up Dia Frampton and the jury still out on this spring's winner, Jermaine Paul, in addition to standing up to the "Factor," if "The Voice" aims to climb to the top of the reality singing heap it is going to need to find the one this year.

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