As promised, here is a translation:
Florent Pagny, Zazie, Mika and Pascal Obispo, the coaches of « The Voice », will still be so nutty this year ?
THE NEW WAY OF THE VOICE
Apart the arriving of Pascal Obispo to replace M.Pokora, a few modifications are inserted in this season 7, which will start this Saturday night. Will they be enough to straighten up the audience ?
« We wanted to renew the history. To relate it differently », said Matthieu Grelier, Itv Studios France programmes director, during the presentation of the seventh season of « The Voice »to the press . For this new edition, which will start this Saturday night on TF1, The TV talent show changes indeed a few rules. Goal : straighten up the decrease of the audience seen last year.
If the unmissable blind auditions stay, the « battles » and « the ultimate trial » are given up.
During the second phase of the competition from now on renamed « the final audition », the 72 selected talents will come back on stage, on line, to convince the four coaches then returned.
Finally, the 32 last selected candidates will fight during the « duels ». Not a revolutionnary change for this step, it's a question of restyled and gallicized battles.
Upsets very relatives which can be explained by the very precise and restrictive specifications of the Dutch format.
The Florent Pagny'last one
But it was necessary to review this method. For, once the blind auditions ended, the programme, always presented with spirit and talent by Nikos Aliagas, loses some viewers. The last season, about 5,4 millions of curious people were counted for the battles (28,7% of the audience), and 4,9 millions for the episodes of the ultimate trial (22,3% of audience shares).
For 6,7 millions of viewers for the blind auditions (32,5% of audience shares).
But the well-oiled mechanical of the competition stays intact. This year, make way to a new coach : Pascal Obispo. If during the first recordings, the new coach, the substitute of M.Pokora, was shy beside his three friends, Florent Pagny, Mika and Zazie well used to the exercise, the singer-songwriter quickly relaxed.
Thus, he doesn't hesitate to climb on his chair or join a talent on stage to improvise a duet. He shed a few tears when one of his hit was interpretated. The « Obispo show » pushed a lot of candidates to join his team, to the detriment of historical coaches, which are become a little bit predictable.
Anyway, Florent Pagny, present since the first season, has already announced that the seventh season will be his last. « I think that it's ok, I explored all possibilities, I'm happy », he said recently to our colleagues of Télé star. « I have also other things to do » added one who brought Stéphan Rizon to victory (saison 1) and Slimane (season 5).
For the emotion, the four coaches will sing a Michel Berger's song, Quelque chose de Tennessee, to pay tribute to Johnny Hallyday, deceased on December 6th. Thrills again when Life on Mars of David Bowie will be revisited during the first evening by a deep voice candidate.
Already revealed in the trailer, she could seduce the four coaches who then will fight for her to get her back in their team. Changes, did you say changes ?
Enjoy!