NBC’s ‘The Voice’: Blake Shelton loves show, but not quick move to fall
In case you have not heard already, “The Voice” is going to be transitioning over to the fall TV season on NBC for the first time later this year — and while we have been largely critical of the move (mostly because the network is burning out their singing show so much that a season 4 may not even happen), the opinions of the show’s mentors hold a little bit more weight.
Blake Shelton has seen his career skyrocket since becoming a coach, and he recently told reporters at CMA Fest (per Yahoo!) that even he doesn’t like the idea of trying to come back so soon for another season and limit what he can do as an artist:
”At some point, something’s gotta give. I’ve been very vocal with the network and Mark Burnett’s production company. It’s like ‘Man, this sucks, because the reason that you want the four of us is because we’re viable artists right now—current. And we can’t do both, if we do back-to-back seasons.’ I’ve been hammering ‘em about it.”
Shelton also added that he will still enjoy doing the show as he always has, but he also wants to have some time to pursue other interests.
There have been rumors suggesting that NBC will bring in a new panel of coaches for the spring season as a way to balance this out, and thus they can have two separate versions of the show a year to keep in strong ratings while giving the artists all time to do their own thing. However, there’s been no confirmation on this, and regardless it looks like Blake, Adam Levine, Christina Aguilera, and Cee Lo Green are going to going back to work soon.
As we close, remember this interesting fact — by the time season 3 ends in November or December, we will have seen three seasons of this show play out in less than 20 months. That’s a lot for a show that has four superstars on its panel, and a talent pool that is ever-diminishing.
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Matt Milner
June 11, 2012 @ 12:22 am
If you’re frickin “sick of those shows”, three words for ya : DON T WATCH THEM.
Period !
Damn if stupidity would kill, it would be a genocide with people lik Overlt and the world would definitively be a better place to be.
Back on the subject, Mr Shelton is spot ON.
I’ve fully enjoyed Season 2 of The Voice , which was EASILY SUPERIOR to this joke of a show called “dancing with the stars” and owned it BIG TIME.
The Voice is fresh, original, exciting and entertaining, thanks to both the interactions between the four coaches AND the excellent pool of talents on it .
I’ve discovered a lot of brillant voices from Justin Hopkins to The Shields to Pip to The winner himself and they all entertained me to no end and still ARE.
But Blake is spot on.
Too much Voice kills The Voice.
Like Too MUCH Iron Man, Thor and Captain A Kill Comics Movies TO ME.
Enough is enough.
But in a world where “more is better” and “bigger is better” as well this comes as zero surprise.
It’s all about the MONEY in the US of A
OverIt
June 10, 2012 @ 5:51 pm
I agree, they are totally running this show into the ground. more then that i’m just sick of singing shows in general. what’s crazy is i’m actually enjoying SYTYCD this year and i hate dancing shows, but at least its not another freaking singing show.