The Voice finale underwhelms drawing just 1.66m
The audience for 2014’s finale of The Voice was well down on previous years just 1.66m people tuning in to see Anja Nissen win the singing competition.
The result which actually saw the audience decrease to 1.57m for the winner announcement in well down on the 2012 and 2013 The Voice finale results which drew 2.6m and 2.0m respectively.
Despite the underwhelming result for The Voice a lacklustre offering from its rivals saw the show top the night and Nine win the night with an audience share of 27.8 per cent.
According to Oztam preliminary overnight metro ratings data last night’s show has bucked the trend in previous years of the audience peaking with the announcement of the winner. In 2012 the winner announcement saw the audience peak at 3.098m while 2013 saw it peak at 2.037m viewers.
Great news – does that mean the Maddens can go home now.
The Voice is nearing the end of its shelf-life. The viewer figures will be very disappointing to Nine. 160,000 viewers tuning out before the winner is announced. It’s normally the other way around. People not happy with the contestant winning perhaps?
You think Nine would have learnt from Ten not to spin-off. What boring TV anyway, X Factor is much better. Looks like there will be at least 3 series of The Block next year…
I’m not at all surprised that The Voice last night did a bit of a tank – I’ll never believe that the final makeup of contestants is “purely” based on audience voting figures – all the people that could actually sing got dumped last week. Perhaps its my hearing as I get older – maybe I need to go get a checkup or retune the audio on my television set – lots of bad/flat notes. But wait next week… more Block…. time to go back to the video store (I’m too much of a nice guy to pirate anything – although faced with the Block / X Factor or who knows what delights from Ten – and the cost of Foxtel – I can quite understand why people look to downloading content…)
Theatre’s greatest strength is Mystery. Never show the public how it is done, never pull the same trick twice, unless it’s under tight control.
There is a fine line between presenting the audience with an appearance of truth, and pulling the wool over their eyes. As soon as the audience gets the notion that they are being lead by the nose, you tend to lose them in droves.
Someone mentioned X Factor. In my opinion, this is an exercise in controlled hysteria, but one day the false fumbles and the big licks combinations may also fall over, as even the dimmest observer realises they have seen it all before.
Duuuurrrr …. no wonder it was down… they pushed The Voice Kids down everyone’s throat by replacing the Voice in the Sunday night time slot. I liked the Voice and would have watched the final – if it wasn’t on Monday night – and was still on Sunday as when it started. Also the Voice Kids just annoys the crap out of me. Just too much for young people. Maybe the audience was making a statement about that – more so – by not watching the adult final in protest of Kids.