| The Voice of Holland | |
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| Genre | Reality competition |
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| Developed by | Talpa Network |
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| Starring | The Voice of Holland Band with Jeroen Rietbergen |
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| Voices of | Martijn Krabbé |
| Country of origin | Netherlands |
| Original language | Dutch |
| No. of seasons | 12 |
| No. of episodes | 137 |
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| Running time | 120 minutes (inc. adverts) |
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| Network | RTL 4 |
| Release | 17 September 2010 – 14 January 2022 |
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| The Voice Kids The Voice Senior | |
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The Voice of Holland, also known by its acronym TVOH, is a Dutch singing reality competition television series that became a global TV format franchise, created by media tycoon John de Mol Jr. and musician Roel van Velzen in the Netherlands and airs on RTL 4. For the first nine seasons, The Voice of Holland was hosted by Martijn Krabbé and Wendy van Dijk. Starting from the tenth season (2019–2020), Wendy van Dijk was replaced by Chantal Janzen. The twelfth season concluded prematurely in 2022 due to sexual misconduct allegations relating to the series' crew members, and the series has not aired since.[1][2]
The central focus of the show is the singing talent and quality of the contestants. Three or four coaches,[3] themselves successful performing artists, train the talents in their teams, and occasionally perform with them. After many preliminary off-screen audition rounds, the most promising talents are selected for the televised shows. Crucially, this happens in so-called "blind auditions", during which the coaches cannot see, but only hear the candidates perform. Not until the talent gets chosen by a coach, or when they have finished singing, do the coaches' chairs rotate towards them, and are they revealed to the coaches.
The first episodes are pre-recorded in front of a live studio audience, so that the coaches can experience the audience's reaction to the candidate, and are sometimes influenced by it. The following episodes are recorded wherein some singers lose their spot on the team, and others are promoted to subsequent rounds, through singing challenges in various formats, until only a small group remain in the competition. The format then switches to several live shows, in which the audience take an active part in the judging process, and more singers are voted out until one winner remains.