“We may have a surprise in the middle of it,” Telegdy hinted.
The show kicks off with host Carson Daly blah, blah, blahing about how this show, unlike any other, puts vocal ability first. Though NBC insists in its press material that Daly, who also hosts the network’s “Last Call With Carson Daly,” became “the entertainment icon that he is today” when he became host of MTV’s “Total Request Live” lo these many years ago, today on this tape he’s more Brian Dunkleman than Ryan Seacrest.
The show then explains the rules. Ever have someone try to teach you how to play mah-jongg? It’s kinda like that.
As best we can tell, four celebrity singers will pick wannabes to be on the “teams” they’ll “coach,” only then they have to kill off those team members they deem weakest — like a nature documentary where the mother eats her young, but only the really lame ones. Then, at some point, viewers take over and a winner is eventually chosen. Anyway, it’s a huge hit in the Netherlands, whence it sprang. If more than one celeb mentor picks a singer, he or she gets to pick which team they want to go with.
Christina Aguilera is the show’s diva and the Den Mom. She gets to do most of the talking and break up fights.
Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine has been cast as the Artful Dodger.
Cee Lo Green is the adorable rascal.
And country singer Blake Shelton is the good ol’ boy.
The gag of this show is that all of the auditioners have been pre-screened by the producers and deemed good enough to be “invited” back to perform at “blind auditions.” There will be no melange of lousy singers in this series, the way there is on “American Idol.”
As each person auditions, the celebs sit in goofy red chairs with their backs to the singers. They decide whether they want someone on their team based on their “Voice” alone. Except it’s also about song choice. Anyway, if a celeb likes what he or she hears, a button on the chair is hit, the chair swivels around, and the words “I Want You” light up under the celeb’s legs. If no coach swivels for a singer, that singer is sent home.
So each auditioner shown at the screening has some visual story to tell.
One aging singer can’t decide which color eye shadow would suit her best, so she went with them all, and says, “Not being able to see me is probably an advantage.”
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