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The Voice tipped to match Masterchef finale numbers

Who will win? How big will it go? Who has been hit by the flu? Media is agog...

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The Voice has them all in a spin.

Media articles today barely mention tomorrow’s Dancing with the Stars. It’s all about Nine’s talent show finale, which stretches across two nights.

Who will win? How big will it go? Why is it such a hit? Who has been hit by the flu? It’s all under the microscope in the lead-up to the big night.

Karise Eden is considered the front-runner based on local iTunes sales, but there is a theory that the Twitter followers of Joel Madden (and wife Nicole Richie) could swing the votes Sarah de Bono’s way. She could attract Facebook votes from overseas with the potential of never having been viewed by some of the people voting for her.

Meanwhile The Australian says of its success:
Its Monday night finale – after a Sunday night denouement – is expected to approach the 4.6 million viewers MasterChef Australia attracted for its second season finale in 2010. And it will do so in an environment in which viewers will feel even more part of the experience than they did at their MasterChef cooking parties.

Viewers will see their encouraging tweets on screen, they’ve contributed two votes to their favourite performer by buying a song on iTunes (at the time of writing Karise Eden’s version of Hallelujah is No 1 on the retail site) or they’ll dissect the program with friends on Facebook or Twitter as it happens. It appears to be a renaissance for reality TV programming; it certainly helped spark Nine’s ratings and commercial renaissance.

The Sydney Morning Herald also speculates on the audience numbers:
The closest comparative would be the top-rating second season of MasterChef Australia. That drew an average weekly audience of about 1.7 million and on its final night attracted 3.5 million for the show and 3.9 million for the winner’s announcement. (The two parts of big finals are ”coded” separately for ratings purposes.)
Inclusive of regional ratings, that MasterChef final had a total national audience of about 5.7 million.

The Herald Sun says flu has hit the show hard:
Singer Rachael Leahcar has been hardest hit, completely losing her voice midweek. Coach Seal, host Darren McMullen and singer Darren Percival have also been struck down. The Voice’s entire production team has also been bed-ridden after contracting the virus. It is taking more than a week for people to recover from the illness.

An entire production team bed-ridden? That sounds extreme!

At this rate The Voice could be without a voice.

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  3. Yes, I feel for them if they had the flu. Melbourne’s just had a nasty bout spread across the city. I’ve been lucky this time.

    I predict it will hit about 3.5 million viewers, peaking at just under 4 million!

    I also think Karise will be announced the winner!

  6. i think it will beat the number of people who watched the block finale last year or it will beat the number of people who watched the finale of masterchef.

    4.6 million viewers.

  8. Not sure who’s expecting it to get nearly 4.5m, perhaps just Michael Bodey who wrote the article in the Australian. Won’t be watching either as I have also been enjoying Revenge (except for the waste of an ep last week).

  10. The finals will have to do without me, I’ve not watched The Voice at all. I’m so over all these talent shows with their screaming audiences.

  11. @Kimbeth

    No! I’m glad the show is over and done with swiftly. I’ve hardly watched it but am glad it’s not on for forever and a day.

    Next year if Nine are smart they’ll have it across 2 nights a week. Having it all on Monday hurts anything else scheduled after it by airing too late i.e Tricky Business. Although nothing could save that show’s ratings.

  12. It makes you wonder why ch9 didn’t stretch the series out just a few more weeks. It was culling the numbers down quickly to last 4 for each team then why not just cull one member per week. I think it happened all just a bit quick given the talent.

  13. I’m predicting that the finale on Monday will rate over 3.5m.

    But this will be for the 5 minute “Winner announced’ portion.

    The main portion of the show – all 3 hours and 55 minutes – will probably average 2.8m – unless Nine breaks the show up into 30 minute portions like The Project does.

    Overall, Nine will win Sunday and Monday nights with a Huge margin over Seven and ABC will narrowly beat Ten to get third.

  14. I can’t understand why this bug is killing me….. been sick all week!! on drugs since tuesday still feel like crap! Over half my mates are sick too! Sydney is struggling!!

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