NBC Fall Schedule: The Voice Goes to 2 Cycles, 3 Hours a Week, Smash Held to Midseason, Sing Off Cancelled

By On 05/13/2012 · 68 Comments · In The Voice

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NBC announced its new Fall schedule today. Three hours of  The Voice a week, right off the bat, with its Tuesday episode is scheduled for 8 pm.  Unless FOX mixes things up, The Voice will compete against Glee.

Smash will once again be held until mid-season, which is bad news for fans who have a long wait ahead of them for the season 2 premiere.

Also, THR reports The Voice will air twice a year, with the spring cycle featuring a different cast of judges.

Fall format tweets will include:

…extending the auditions when the show tends to pull in some of its highest ratings; insinuating the popular revolving chairs into the battle rounds; and getting to the live episodes more quickly, according to Greenblatt. “Nobody likes to have a dip in the ratings,” he says. “And I think we’re going to be smart about how to change that.”

ETA: Bleh. Does somebody want to cover The Voice for me? I don’t think I can take it twice a year.  Yay NBC running a ratings winner into the ground! Also, with two cycles, the winners are even less likely to break into the market.

Also, I was complaining about The Voice being programmed opposite Glee on Tuesdays. Deadline is reporting that Glee will be moved to Thursdays AFTER X Factor.

ETAA: The Sing Off has been cancelled. Sadz.

MONDAY

8-10 p.m. – “The Voice”

10-11 p.m. – “REVOLUTION”

TUESDAY

8-9 p.m. –“The Voice”

9-9:30 p.m. – “GO ON”

9:30-10 p.m. – “THE NEW NORMAL”

10-11 p.m. – “Parenthood”

WEDNESDAY

8-8:30 p.m. – “ANIMAL PRACTICE”

8:30-9 p.m. – “GUYS WITH KIDS”

9-10 p.m. – “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”

10-11 p.m. – “CHICAGO FIRE”

THURSDAY

8-8:30 p.m. – “30 Rock”

8:30-9 p.m. – “Up All Night”

9-9:30 p.m. – “The Office”

9:30-10 p.m. – “Parks and Recreation”

10-11 p.m. – “Rock Center with Brian Williams”

FRIDAY

8-8:30 p.m. – “Whitney”

8:30-9 p.m. – “Community”

9-10 p.m. – “Grimm”

10-11 p.m. – “Dateline NBC”

SATURDAY

Encore programming

SUNDAY (Fall 2012)

7- 8:15 p.m. — “Football Night in America”

8:15-11:30 p.m. — “NBC Sunday Night Football”

SUNDAY (Post-football/Winter 2013)

7-8 p.m. – “Dateline NBC”

8-9 p.m. – “Fashion Star”

9-10 p.m. – “The Celebrity Apprentice”

10-11 p.m. – “DO NO HARM”

 
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  • http://twitter.com/KariannHart Kariann Hart

    I am so disappointed that  The Sing-Off has been cancelled, but that does make Sara available should she want to join  The Voice or American Idol.   She’s a terrific judge as is Ben Folds and Shane.   The Voice shouldn’t be on twice a year. I don’t like some of these changes!  The time slot for Glee seems strange.  It should be before the  X-Factor.  Hopefully,  Smash will add something special to the show.  How about a past MALE American Idol?

    I like the suggestions of Marc Anthony and Gladys Knight.

  • Anonymous

    Is the Sing Off really completely cancelled? After the weak ratings last fall, I thought NBC would figure out that the show should go back to being a holiday or summer show. It was a great show for right after idol was over in May.

  • Anonymous

    the sing off >> the voice 

    sigh. 

  • http://twitter.com/mcdeallover Sunny Mc

    I’m in mourning for The Sing Off.  This was the best singing contest on tv, with the best judges. Makes me very sad.   I guess this is why Nick Lachey was giving Kelly Ripa the hard sell to pick him as permanent co-host.

  • Kylee

     Maybe they will just transfer all the sing-off judges/host to The Voice.

  • http://twitter.com/youtweetmetoo it’s me

    same people *cough*cough” don’t know what Broadway is *cough* cough*

  • fuzzywuzzy

    No, she’s managed by Fuller’s XIX Entertainment:

    http://www.xixentertainment.com/

     

  • http://twitter.com/justsing17 J

    Nooooooooo. The Sing-Off… :(

  • Anonymous

    The Sing Off ….off ? :( 

  • Anonymous

    The Sing Off is cancelled?! NOOOOOOOOO.

  • http://twitter.com/BobbiNJ Bobbi

    Will be interesting to see what they wind up doing to “Smash.” I don’t hate it but it sure isn’t the best show out there. Kat has a beautiful voice, but she can’t act at all.

    I stopped watching “The Voice” before this season ended. Can’t imagine what would lure me back. I certainly would not even consider watching two seasons of it in one year!

    Truly sad that “The Sing-Off” was cancelled. I wish NBC had not tried to super-size that show and take it out of the holiday cycle. It was a little gem and they killed it. Such a shame.

  • Anonymous

    The Sing Off was a gem with the most legitimate trio of judges on any show.  If I was casting judges, I would snap up Ben’s genius in a second.  Simon/Nigel are you listening?

  • Anonymous

    So so so so sad that the Sing Off is canceled :( 

  • Anonymous

    Yes, it was great holiday season show — nothing cheerier than acappella singing in December.  The longer season was a bit much.

    I loved the way they cast the show — with a mix of college groups, professional groups that have been together for decades, high school glee clubs, church groups, and some inventive young groups trying to get their big break.  It gave the audience an idea of the scope of acappella.

    Sigh.  Too late now, but it would have been cool to see some guest artist groups appear.  Groups like The Bobs, Sweet Honey in the Rock, or Take 6, which might not be interested in competing, but could help show the variety of group singing.

  • hcpoirot

    Twice a year is just too much. specially the battle rounds where the judges will choose belting songs for their singers to sing. Not nice to hear lots of belting and even yelling in each battle rounds.

    Then when the live round came, they chopped off too many singers and too quick to the finale. Not to mention each judges had to had 1 singer, good or bad.

    This show will be out quickly with airing twice a year.

  • hcpoirot

    Hoping at least NBC is smart enough to at least pick Ben or Shawn or Sara as one of the X-factor judges.

  • Lexi LaGuardia

    So disappointing about the Sing-Off.  It was my favorite singing show by a mile…

    I watch Idol more out of habit at this point then anything else.  I hit the height of my AI obsession with Season 5 and it’s been mostly waning since, with a couple of bright spots here and there (Lambert, Melinda Doolittle, Cook, Haley, CaseyA, Joshua) 
    We still have between 6-8 episodes of the Voice on our DVR that neither of us is ever very amped to watch, so they will probably sit there until we get tired of seeing them on the list and then just delete them.  I just have trouble caring at all about that show and the episodes really drag to me, much more so than AI.

  • Anonymous

    The chair-turn-around section seems the most popular for the Voice. But I agree that fans don’t get to see their favorites every week and the show loses its momentum. Plus, too many great singers get the boot just because they happen to be on the same team. They should give wild-cards so other judges can save them. That will surely deflate Christina’s ego when Adam pulls it out. That would be a fun show.

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