Reality Show, The Voice | featured news

Two popular reality shows made a splash upon their re-entry during the past week – and a new one had a strong debut. A new episode of "Dancing With the Stars" premiered on ABC last week before 17 million viewers, just behind CBS drama "NCIS" as the week's most popular program. It was down to 14.5 million Monday night, facing competition from the return of "The Voice" on NBC.

Get ready for some chair-spinning action -- "The Voice" returns for an all-new season of the talent competition Monday night. But this time, the would-be contestants won't be the only new part of the show.

Cassadee Pope, who was country singer Blake Shelton's protege on the third season of NBC's "The Voice," has won the show's competition....

There was lots of good news on Monday night, as "The Voice" and "Dancing with the Stars" both saw week-to-week growth and helped carry NBC and ABC to their regular Monday split.

Just one week into season three, NBC is announcing big changes for cycle four. Coaches Christina Aguilera and Cee Lo Green will be taking next season off. Adam Levine and Blake Shelton are staying through season four.

In case you were wondering why NBC decided to add a third night of “The Voice” season debut this week on Wednesday in the teeth of Fox’s re-boot of “X Factor”: Part 1 of “The Voice’s” now three-night fall season launch attracted 12.3 million viewers from 8-10 p.m. beating, among other programs, the season finales of Fox’s popular “Hell’s Kitchen” and “MasterChef.”

Thursday was a big day at Fox. In the morning, the network got word from Nielsen that — after Wednesday night’s Top 5 performance show — “American Idol” had regained its throne as the No. 1-rated entertainment series among younger viewers, who are the currency of broadcast TV ad sales. To accomplish that, “Idol” had to edge past NBC’s singing competition, “The Voice.”

The Voice eliminated quarterfinalists RaeLynn and Ashley De La Rosa and determined four of its second-season semifinalists during Tuesday night's broadcast of the NBC singing competition.

With the success of "The Voice," NBC recently announced that it will expand the singing competition to two nights for the live shows starting on April 2. The live performance shows will air for two hours on Mondays at 8 p.m. EST with the eliminations announced during an one-hour results show airing on Tuesdays at 9 p.m. EST.

Having the top show on television presents a rare opportunity for any network, but especially NBC, which has been so far behind for so long... This week “The Voice” emerged as the unlikely winner of its own reality competition. With a 6 rating, it displaced Fox’s long-running “American Idol” as America’s top-rated television series.