The Voice comes to an end on BBC1 this Saturday. Photograph: Guy Levy/BBC/Wall To Wall
The BBC will look to the success of James Corden’s Carpool Karaoke as inspiration for its next generation of entertainment hits when The Voice comes to an end on BBC1.
BBC1 faces losing out in the Saturday night ratings war after the final instalment of The Voice this weekend, with Simon Cowell’s Britain’s Got Talent returning to ITV and Strictly Come Dancing not back until the autumn.
Next week BBC1 will premiere a Saturday evening show fronted by Michael McIntyre recorded live at the Theatre Royal in London’s Drury Lane, with Gary Barlow understood to be lined up to present a new variety show later this year.
But the BBC has struggled to come up with a new Saturday night hit, with adventure gameshow Prized Apart and celebrity gymnastics format Tumbleamong its high-profile flops. It wanted to hang on to The Voice, but was outbid for the next series by ITV.
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The BBC’s acting entertainment chief, Alan Tyler, said: “A lot of comedy entertainment in the UK tends to be interviews, stand-up or panel shows and there’s nothing wrong with those. But perhaps that means we are missing something more akin to the thing that [Jimmy] Fallon and James Corden have done.”
Corden’s Carpool Karaoke, in which the CBS talkshow host sits in a car singing with celebrities such as Adele and Jennifer Lopez, and Lip Sync Battle, derived from a slot on NBC’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, have become TV and online sensations.
Tyler said: “When The Voice was poached by ITV we felt genuinely sad but it also represents a big opportunity. There’s no question finding a show that unites the whole family on a Saturday night is tough, but if you strike the right show it is incredibly rewarding.”
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Tyler said he wanted to use the 10pm slot on BBC2 to develop new entertainment strands with the “visceral thrill of the unfiltered”, which might create spin-offs for BBC1 in the same way that Carpool Karaoke was being made into a standalone show in the US. “There are lessons to be learned from what is happening in America which we can apply over here,” he said.
Britain’s Got Talent returns to ITV on Saturday for its 10th series and remains one of ITV’s biggest shows. But when Cowell says in the opening episode “after 10 years maybe we have run out of talent in this country” it may not be entirely in jest.
The show discovered Susan Boyle and Paul Potts, but more recently has become synonymous with dancing dogs (controversially so last year, when it emerged the winner had used a stunt double). When another dog turns up in Saturday’s show, Cowell says: “Just to be clear, there is only one of them, right?”
The first instalment also features Moldovan sword swallower Alex Magala, who won Russia’s Got Talent and performed at the opening ceremony for the 2014 winter Olympics in Sochi. “It’s sort of become World’s Got Talent, I like that it’s open to everybody,” said one of the programme’s judges, David Walliams.
The ITV show is likely to win Saturday’s ratings skirmish: last year it returned with more than 10 million viewers and The Voice finished with just over 6 million.
The BBC will look to the success of James Corden’s Carpool Karaoke as inspiration for its next generation of entertainment hits when The Voice comes to an end on BBC1.
BBC1 faces losing out in the Saturday night ratings war after the final instalment of The Voice this weekend, with Simon Cowell’s Britain’s Got Talent returning to ITV and Strictly Come Dancing not back until the autumn.
Next week BBC1 will premiere a Saturday evening show fronted by Michael McIntyre recorded live at the Theatre Royal in London’s Drury Lane, with Gary Barlow understood to be lined up to present a new variety show later this year.
But the BBC has struggled to come up with a new Saturday night hit, with adventure gameshow Prized Apart and celebrity gymnastics format Tumbleamong its high-profile flops. It wanted to hang on to The Voice, but was outbid for the next series by ITV.
James Corden’s Carpool Karaoke: what makes this late-night viral hit so good?
Read more
The BBC’s acting entertainment chief, Alan Tyler, said: “A lot of comedy entertainment in the UK tends to be interviews, stand-up or panel shows and there’s nothing wrong with those. But perhaps that means we are missing something more akin to the thing that [Jimmy] Fallon and James Corden have done.”
Corden’s Carpool Karaoke, in which the CBS talkshow host sits in a car singing with celebrities such as Adele and Jennifer Lopez, and Lip Sync Battle, derived from a slot on NBC’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, have become TV and online sensations.
Tyler said: “When The Voice was poached by ITV we felt genuinely sad but it also represents a big opportunity. There’s no question finding a show that unites the whole family on a Saturday night is tough, but if you strike the right show it is incredibly rewarding.”
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Tyler said he wanted to use the 10pm slot on BBC2 to develop new entertainment strands with the “visceral thrill of the unfiltered”, which might create spin-offs for BBC1 in the same way that Carpool Karaoke was being made into a standalone show in the US. “There are lessons to be learned from what is happening in America which we can apply over here,” he said.
Britain’s Got Talent returns to ITV on Saturday for its 10th series and remains one of ITV’s biggest shows. But when Cowell says in the opening episode “after 10 years maybe we have run out of talent in this country” it may not be entirely in jest.
The show discovered Susan Boyle and Paul Potts, but more recently has become synonymous with dancing dogs (controversially so last year, when it emerged the winner had used a stunt double). When another dog turns up in Saturday’s show, Cowell says: “Just to be clear, there is only one of them, right?”
The first instalment also features Moldovan sword swallower Alex Magala, who won Russia’s Got Talent and performed at the opening ceremony for the 2014 winter Olympics in Sochi. “It’s sort of become World’s Got Talent, I like that it’s open to everybody,” said one of the programme’s judges, David Walliams.
The ITV show is likely to win Saturday’s ratings skirmish: last year it returned with more than 10 million viewers and The Voice finished with just over 6 million.
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