The Voice Česko Slovensko
The Voice Česko Slovensko is a reality singing competition and version of The Voice of Holland for Czech Republic and Slovakia. It is broadcast on TV Nova in Czech Republic and TV Markíza in Slovakia, both stations are owned by CME. It is derived from the original The Voice of Holland. The concept of the competition consists of searching for singer talents over 16 years of age in public casting. The winner is later determined on the basis of a voting vote by SMS, which receives financial rewards and the ability to upload his own album.
As Czech and Slovak languages are very similar, it is a bilingual show. People from Czech Republic are speaking Czech language when people from Slovakia are speaking Slovak language. Czechs and Slovaks in this show are communicating jointly without language change. People from all other countries are communicating in English or its native language, with assistance of a translator.
The Voice was first introduced to viewers in Czech Republic and Slovakia on February 12, 2012, when 1,119 million viewers watched him on average. In the competition, the coaches choose their competitors only according to their voice, who then compete against each other. Not only competitors but also coaches compete because the coach just wants to be what Voice shows. The first coaches were Dara Rolins, Michal David, Josef Vojtek and Rytmus. The show is moderated by Leoš Mareš and Tina. This season was won by Slovak Ivanna Bagová.
On November 19, 2013, it was announced that Voice returned to the second season, which began broadcast on March 5, 2014, and ended June 18, 2014 with the victory of Lenka Hrůzová. He also recently appeared in Sunday's slot, not Sunday, as he has done so far. This season was won by Czech Lenka Hrůzová.
On June 15, 2018, TV Nova announced on its Facebook site that the third line was being produced under the English name The Voice Czech Republic. At the same time, the castings were announced in a new season, where participants can sign up using the Nova and Markíza websites. Eventually, the name The Voice Česko Slovensko was adopted. This season was won by Annamária D’Almeida, a Slovak of Benin origin.
As of August 2019, a fourth season has yet to be announced.
Format
Each year begins with "Blind Selections," where coaches compose their team of singers with whom they will work during the competition. The coach is facing the back of the contestant in the chair, if the coach likes the show, he presses the "I want you" button and the chair immediately turns towards the contestant with the shining sign I want you to. After being cheered, the competitor is automatically assigned to the team of the coach who chose him. If more coaches have turned, the singer chooses himself to which team he will go.The next part of the competition is "duels." Each coach will form in his team two couples who will compete in a duel and sing one common song. The coach then decides whom to keep in his team. In the first year, the coaches invited their mentor to help them in their decisions. Since the second year, a new element of theft has been introduced, when a disqualified competitor could take another coach to the team and save him from falling out.
The new part from the second row is "K.O." Team contestants are here again divided into pairs, but each singers sing their song. The coach decides who else to send and who will end up in the competition.
At the final stage of the Live Transmission Competition, the singers sing other songs each week, and the competitor leaves the contest for a week until the winner of the contest is announced. Their audience decides about their fate using SMS votes. The competition leaves the contestants with the smallest number of votes from each team. In the first year each week was dedicated to only two teams separately, so after 14 days each competitor left each competition from each team. Fourteen days before the final, each team participated each week. Progress was made by the competitor with the highest number of points he could get by the number of votes and points from the coach. In each team, the number of votes cast by the spectators was converted to a percentage, and then the points were scored by the coach who had a total of 100 and had to divide them between two contestants from his team. In the second year, this principle was no longer used, with four teams playing every week, and only viewers were taking their decision.
Coaches and hosts
Presenters
Coaches' teams
Color key:| Season | - | - | - | - |
| Season | Josef Vojtek | Rytmus | Dara Rolins | Michal David |
| 1 | Markéta Pouličková Barbora Švidraňová Daniel Mrózek Kristína Zakuciová Jakub Pohle Veronika Vrublová | Anna Veselovská Juraj Zaujec Nikoleta Spalasová Kristýna Daňhelová Adam Koubek Michal Chrenko | Miloš Novotný Zuzana Mikulcová Dominika Šuľáková Katarína Demská Simona Hégerová David Bísek | Ivanna Bagová Brunno Oravec Kateřina Petráňová Petr Kutheil David Weingartner Alžbeta Pažoutová |
| Season | - | - | - | - |
| Season | Josef Vojtek | Majk Spirit | Dara Rolins | Michal David |
| 2 | Lenka Hrůzová Simona Gážiková Edita Třísková Viktor Homolek | Martin Císar Blanka & Martin Veronika Strapková Kristína Mihaľová | Andrea Holá Jana Rybníčková Eliška Mrázová Marek Relich | Vendula Příhodová Andrea Janczarová Zolo Lebo Martin Kujan |
| Season | - | - | - | - |
| Season | Josef Vojtek | Kali | Jana Kirschner | Vojtěch Dyk |
| 3 | Jakub Moulis Aleksandra Nová Adriana Bessogonov | Annamária D’Almeida Diana Kalashová Kristián Révay | Peter Juhás Valentína Vlková Michaela Husárová | Eliška Urbanová Markéta Chladová Dominik Hanza |