E! Entertainment will once again be the exclusive cable home of NBC's runaway hit show THE VOICE airing special encore performances each week of the highly anticipated new season. The series will debut on E! with a special three-hour presentation on Saturday, February 11 at 5:00pm ET/PT and will air weekly two-hour episodes in its regular timeslot beginning Saturday, February 18 at 6:00pm ET/PT.
Last year when E! aired encore performances of THE VOICE the network saw ratings increases by as much as 60% in its timeslot throughout the season. In total, more than 22 million viewers tuned into "The Voice" on E! in 2011.
The season two premiere of THE VOICE on NBC on Sunday, February 5 after the Super Bowl delivered a 16.3 rating in adults 18-49 - the highest result for any entertainment telecast on any network in six years - and 37.6 million viewers overall. And on Monday, the show's regular-slot debut achieved NBC's highest 18-49 rating in the time period (a 6.7), excluding Olympics, since February 2004.
THE VOICE is a vocal competition show featuring celebrity musician coaches Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Green, Adam Levine and Blake Shelton. Carson Daly hosts and Christina Milian serves as social correspondent. The show's innovative format features three stages of competition: the first begins with the blind audition, then the competition enters into a battle phase, and finally, the live performance shows. In the end, each coach will have one star artist left ready to compete against the other teams' finalists to be named "The Voice."
"The Voice" is a presentation of Mark Burnett's One Three Inc., Talpa Content USA, Inc. and Warner Horizon Television. The series is created by John de Mol, who executive-produces along with Burnett, Audrey Morrissey, Stijn Bakkers and Lee Metzger.
Check out all the up-to-date information on the series at www.nbc.com/the-voice/ and on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/NBCTheVoice. Also follow the show on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/NBCTheVoice
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E! is television's top destination for all things entertainment and celebrity. E! is currently available to 98 million cable and satellite subscribers in the U.S. and the E! Everywhere initiative underscores the company's dedication to making E! content available on all new media platforms any time and anywhere from online to broadband video to wireless to VOD. Popular programming includes E! core franchises, "E! News," "The Soup," "Chelsea Lately," "Fashion Police" and "True Hollywood Story," as well as the network's hit series "Keeping Up with the Kardashians," "Khloé & Lamar," "Kourtney and Kim Take New York," "Ice Loves Coco" and "After Lately." Additionally, E!'s "Live from the Red Carpet" signature events keep fans connected to their favorite stars on Hollywood's biggest nights. E! is a network of NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment, a division of NBCUniversal, one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news and information to a global audience.
