Maroon 5 frontman and The Voice panelist Adam Levine was on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night to promote The Voice. Ratings are pretty okay for the talent competition series, so he will be back on the show’s next two cycles. That does come up in regards to his colleagues, but the highlights of the conversation came when Levine talked about his friendship with Jonah Hill and doing drugs at a Denny’s. Continue Reading
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The big question is going to be what will happen next spring. Will The Voice feature more ‘breaks’ or permanent exits? NBC might want to keep the talent on a leash as to prevent salaries from exploding to American Idol levels, so to cycle them out might be a good thing. While Christina Aguilera reportedly was paid high 7-figures for her previous seasons on the program, I heard low 8-figures. Still, the gap between her and Mariah Carey is definitely noticeable and her stint in reality television has been widely regarded as a failure. It really makes you think about what the success stories get paid in comparison.
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. — May 8, 2013 — “The Voice” coach Adam Levine and producing partner Jordan Feldstein have signed an exclusive one-year first-look development deal with NBC Entertainment. Continue Reading
Update: The Voice adjusted up to a 4.8 18-49, 13.6 million; Dancing with the Stars adjusted up to a 2.4 18-49, 14.47 million; and Revolution adjusted down to a 2.6 18-49, 7.0 million in final numbers.
In terms of new shows, series that will premiere include Deception, 1600 Penn, and Ready for Love. None of these are really garnering much attention, but perhaps one of them could be a hit. On that note, the most recent hit original program from NBC happens to be returning in March. Revolution continues to take advantage of its Voice lead-in which is why the pairing will remain unchanged. It is tough to find programs that do not shed the millions of viewers at its doorstep, so NBC is not taking that for granted and is definitely uninterested in playing with fire by moving their ‘success story’ around. Continue Reading
The overnight ratings put The X Factor and The Voice in a tie among 18-49-year-olds at a 3.3 overall with the former getting adjusted up to a 3.4 in final ratings. The Voice still won though as that first hour only gave Simon Cowell’s show a 2.7 which is absolutely dreadful for such a pricey reality series. Thankfully for him, viewers showed up when The Voice went off the air at 9 PM and they managed to raise their demo rating substantially against America’s Got Talent–a very similar program that found a 2.9 for the head-to-head hour. Continue Reading
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Night two for The Voice’s return was not nearly as golden. The series shrunk from a 4.8 18-49 to a 3.9 and shed nearly 3 million viewers (13.6 million to 12.0 million.) This is in line with the series’ historic instability, but it should also send up red flags that the additions of Shakira and Usher are not clicking with viewers. That would not at all be unprecedented as we have seen American Idol suffer the same fate this year as it is still yet to find its bottom. In regards to the competition, Splash dipped to a 1.6 18-49, 6.7 million (down about 2 million from its premiere.) The freshman reality program ran against The Voice which would explain the fall although this was expected regardless of its time slot rivals which includes Hell’s Kitchen (1.9, 4.6 million) and NCIS (3.1, 18.1 million.)
The Adam Levine SNL promos have just hit the web for your viewing pleasure. At the host’s side this time around is Bobby Moynihan who has apparently never done these before, so congratulation to him. The musical guest on Saturday will be Kendrick Lamar. As mentioned in one of the spots, Maroon 5 already performed on the long-running sketch series earlier in the season. 
It looks like The Voice is not moving to an exclusively fall run after all. Apparently, the series is set to continue its year-round approach (as previously announced,) but it will act on introducing substitutes in the show’s fourth cycle as Usher and Shakira will be replacing CeeLo Green and Christina Aguilera respectively. This is something that has been alluded to in the past as the series has been searching for ways to get top tier talent unwilling to drop the tour circuit on the program. If it goes well, expect this sort of thing to continue and who knows, it just might be more attractive for both viewers and musicians unwilling to take such a gig permanently. Take that, over saturation! 
Today’s a big day for the ratings because it is likely the first and only time that The X Factor will battle The Voice head-to-head in the same time slot. Both did relatively horrendous showing that NBC’s move was more kamikaze than anything else. If it had any affect on The X Factor’s future, it will definitely be short term, making the fourth-ranked broadcaster look foolish yet again. With that out of the way, let’s crunch some numbers.
Singer Cee Lo Green has certainly not been shy about his television ambitions. Upon hitting it big with The Voice, the musician took to a variety of other small screen offerings via guest parts and today we are hearing that he is preparing to star in a multi-camera comedy for NBC. Word is that Cee Lo is in final negotiations with NBC to star in and executive produce a sitcom that will hail from Sony’s Happy Madison banner. 
