BBC1 is taking season two of The Voice UK to Manchester,
with producer Wall to Wall TV set to film the blind audition stages at the
Dock10 studios in MediaCityUK, Salford.
Wall to Wall, which will start production next month, will
film the pre-recorded audition stages in front of an audience in Salford.
Previously, this was filmed at BBC Television Centre in London. Wall to Wall is
taking advantage of the unique environment at MediaCityUK, which allows for a
range of creative filming options across the site, including the Piazza and the
fantastic backdrop of the quays.
The audition rounds finish recording at the end of December,
and the series is set to air on BBC One in spring 2013.
All four judges from season one of the show – music stars Sir
Tom Jones, Will.i.am, Jessie J and Danny O’Donoghue – have signed up to return
and will spin the already famous red chairs, to select singers from the
audition rounds, who will then battle it out to become the next ‘Voice UK.’
However, the BBC would not yet reveal how the format for the
second run will differ from the first.
Jon de Mol, boss of Dutch firm Talpa Media, which owns the
format to The Voice, said
in May he was looking to tweak the format. He admitted the ratings for
the UK version “could have been better,” after viewing numbers dropped off
following the blind audition stage, during the live shows, before picking up
again for the finals.
Andy Waters, Head of Studios, dock10 commented: "It's
genuinely exciting that The Voice UK is coming to dock10 – it
will show our facilities at their best, and being chosen to deliver one of the
biggest prime-time shows in the UK is a great testament to the team here. Along
with RDF’s Britain’s Brightest which is also filming in HQ1
during November, we could not be looking forward to a more positive end to
2012.”
Moira Ross, Head of Entertainment at Wall to Wall said: “It’s
really exciting for us at W2W to be bringing The Voice UK blind
auditions up to the amazing new studios at dock10, MediaCityUK and to our fans
in the North. I hope they’re going to make some noise!”
Despite this, the BBC said the first series of The Voice UK
was BBC1’s biggest new entertainment series on record, with a consolidated
average audience of 9.2 million and a 38.5% share.
Dock10, which was rebranded from The Studios, MediaCity, in
September, is an independent facility on the same site as the BBC’s northern
base. It has a 10-year contract to produce shows for the BBC, though The Voice
contract was won outside of this, said a spokeswoman for Dock10.
Season two of The Voice airs on BBC1 next spring.
Source: Dock10 / Edited: DannyODonoghue.Net
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