The Voice (American TV series) - Extended

Premiering during the spring cycle in 2025, ***The Voice*** is an American singing competition television series broadcast on NBC, each season lasting for 55 episodes spanning 11 weeks. It aims to find unsigned singing talent (solo or duets, professional and amateur) contested by aspiring singers, age 13 or over, drawn from public auditions. The winner is determined by television viewers voting by telephone, internet, SMS text, and iTunes Store purchases of the audio-recorded artists' vocal performances. They receive US$100,000 and a record deal with Universal Music Group for winning the competition.

The series employs a panel of ten coaches who critique the artists' performances and guide their teams of fifteen of selected artists through the remainder of the season. They also compete to ensure that their act wins the competition, thus making them the winning coach.

## Selection process and format

### Blind Auditions

Each season begins with the "Blind Auditions," where coaches form their team of artists. The coaches' chairs are faced towards the audience during artists' performances; those interested in an artist press their button, which turns their chair towards the artist and illuminates the bottom of the chair to read "I want you." At the conclusion of the performance, an artist either defaults to the only coach who turned around or selects his or her coach if more than one coach expresses interest. A feature called "Block," which allows one coach to block another coach from getting a contestant. They are allowed four blocks and cannot block the same coach more than once. A coach can only be blocked a total of four times. At the end of the Blind Auditions, each coach selects one person as their "Star" and therefore that person gets to skip "Battle Rounds" the following week.

#### Episode Format

There are 15 episodes of Blind Auditions, each two hours and features from 10-15 artists. The episodes air on each Weekday, lasting three weeks In total, 180 artists are featured, however, only 150 will continue.

#### Filming

All the auditions are filmed in six days. If the first 150-160 people are picked, then the final episode of blinds will be canceled and in it's place will be a "Best of Blind Auditions," which will also appear if an episode runs out of auditions to air. If the audition count exceeds 180 auditions, a seventh day of filming will occur in which up to 30 additional fallback performers will perform for the judges. If at the end of seventh day of filming, a team is not full, then producers will randomly choose performers and assign them to teams, allowing the coaches to hear them blindly, and getting only two rejections before being forced to pick the third one. At any point during the first two, a rejected contestant can be claimed by a coach who does not yet have a full team. If any extra auditions are added, auditions are cut from air and cut to 180 auditions. The final episode is filmed two weeks before airing.

Each day is 10 hours, with the first two (8:00-10:00) being promotional shooting, followed by three hours of auditions (each hour featuring five 12-minute auditions). One hour of lunch (13:00-14:00) and three more hours auditions (each hour featuring five 12- minute auditions).

### Battle Rounds

Starting with 150 people, 140 people compete in the "Battle Rounds," each coach pairs two of his or her team members to perform together, then chooses one to advance in the competition. In each season, coaches are assisted by celebrity advisors that are different in each season. Coaches are given two "steals", allowing each coach to select two individuals who were eliminated during a battle round by another coach. A coach can sacrifice up to one steal to elect to save a contestant.

#### Episode Format

There are 10 episodes of "Battle Rounds," each two hours and features 7 pairs. The episodes are on each Weekday, lasting two weeks.

### Knockout Rounds

Starting with 100 people, The Knockout Rounds are where a pair of artists within a team are selected to sing individual performances in succession. They are not told until a few minutes prior to their performances who their partner is. The artists get to choose their own songs in this round, although they continue to get help and advice from their respective coaches. At the conclusion of the performances, coaches would decide which one of each pair gets to advance to the next round. Similar to the battle rounds, the coaches can steal one eliminated artist from another coach. A coach can sacrifice their one steal to elect to save a contestant.

#### Episode Format

There are 5 episodes of "Knockout Rounds," each two hours and features 10 pairs. The episodes are on each Weekday, lasting one week.

### Battles, Round 2

Starting with 60 people, "Battles, Round 2" is where each singer is paired randomly within their team. One celebrity key adviser also assists all four of the coaches and their teams in preparation of these rounds. Coaches give each Battle pairing a list of songs and each pair must agree on which song to sing. Each coach can still decide which of their singers in each pair will advance to the next round. The coaches are also allowed one steal and can save one eliminated artist from his (or her) own team

#### Episode Format

There are 5 episodes of "Battles, Round 2," each two hours and features 6 pairs. The episodes are on each Weekday, lasting one week.

### Live Performances

In the final live performance phase of the competition, the 50 artists perform in weekly shows, where public voting narrows to a final group of artists and eventually declares a winner. The coaches have the power to save one artist that had not received the public's vote that week. These artists would give a last chance performance to win their coach's save. However, in deciding who moves on to the final four phase, the television audience and the coaches have equal say. With one team member remaining for each coach, the contestants compete against each other in the finale, where the outcome is decided solely by public vote.

#### Live-Prelims

There are 5 episodes of "Live-Prelims," each two hours and features 12-13 performers. The episodes are on each Weekday, lasting one week.

##### Monday-Thursday

Starting with 50 contestants, each coach chooses one person from their own team to save who did not receive the public's vote, who is responsible for voting for two from each team. The public then votes for 1 person who did not get chosen from either from each team to move onto the Wildcard round.

##### Friday

The Wildcard round consists of two competitions, the coaches save, and the public save. The public will choose to save one of ten chosen as a wild card, and the coach who had their contestant saved by the public to save, will choose another from the other team to save, after hearing each of the nine singing and input from the other coaches.

#### Live-Playoffs

Starting with 32, there are three episodes of "Live-Playoofs," each two hours and features 10-11 performers. The episodes are on Monday-Wednesday. Each coach chooses one person from their own team to save who did not receive the public's vote, who is responsible for voting for one from each team.

#### Live-Quarters

Starting with 20, there are two episodes of "Live-Semis," each two hours and features 10 performers. The episodes are on Thursday-Friday. The public chooses ten, of any team, only allowing two from one team. The coaches who does not have a performers move on, to the saving grace.

#### Saving Grace

Starting with either 2-10 performers, there is one episode of "Saving Grace," performed live, and features all the performers. The episode is on Monday. The episode pairs the two performers from the same team together to decide who will proceed, which is decided by the public. If their is time remaining, or Saving Grace is not needed, this episode will show "Behind The Scenes" footage.

#### Live-Semis

Starting with 10-15 performers, there are two episodes of "Live-Semis," and features 5-8 performers. The episodes are on Tuesday-Wednesday. The public will vote on five performers to move onto the "Live-Finals." The coaches (4-7) who do not have a performer performing can vote and gets 3% of the vote, maxing out at 15% total coach votes.

#### Live-Finals

Starting with 5 performers, there is one episode of "Live-Finals," and features five performers. The episode is on Friday. The public will vote on the top performer with no influence on the vote from the judges. Voting is open for one week.

#### Results Week

##### Monday

Any "Star" contestant NOT in the final is invited back to perform. If none choose to, this episode will show "Behind The Scenes" footage.

##### Tuesday

All 100 performers who did not make it to the Live Performances are invited back. Ten stand-out non-"Star" performers will perform, one from each team as well as multiple guest performers.

##### Wednesday

The 45 performers who made it to the Live performances, but not to finals, are invited back. Ten stand-out non-"Star" performers will perform, one from each team as multiple guest performers.

##### Thursday

All 150 performers are invited back as the results are finally announced, with a montage of the moments throughout of the season before each one. Each of the final five sing with their respective coaches, and a group performance of all five is also done. The coaches who did not have a performer make it to finals will...?

##### Friday

The final five performers will perform one last time before voting is closed and the winner is announced. The last five minutes are dedicated to announce the coaches, audition locations, and other big announcements for the next season.

## Chair Order

 Coach has a regular contract, appearing in consecutive seasons.

## Ratings

*The Voice* ratings