In The Voice’s brand new season, the program is welcoming three new star coaches into the most iconic red chairs on TV.
The Voice returns to Channel Seven and 7plus at 7:30 pm on Monday, 19 August.
GRAMMY-nominated international artist, actor, philanthropist and LGBTQ+ activist Adam Lambert; award-winning Australian singer-songwriter Kate Miller-Heidke; and multi-platinum-selling, award-winning singer and songwriter LeAnn Rimes join returning The Voice favourite, multi-platinum-selling artist Guy Sebastian, as they vie to discover and mentor Australia’s next singing sensation.
“We have the biggest transformation of coaches we’ve had for a long time,” Voice EP Digby Mitchell told Mediaweek.
“We were thrilled to be able to get this group together, and they really clicked from day one.”
This season of The Voice begins with the Blind Auditions as artists take to the stage hoping to turn the coaches red chairs. The stakes are high with the coaches’ teams capped at 12 spots each.
When an artist receives more than one chair turn, the coaches must pitch for the artist to decide which team to join.
2024’s iteration features a world-first for the series, with each coach receiving one Ultimate Block, giving them the power to block all three of their fellow coaches at once, ensuring that the artist they like joins their team.
The coaches also receive one Block each, giving them the power to block a rival coach from getting an artist they turned their chair for.
Mitchell also says the structure of this season is slightly different to the previous season.
“Coming out of the blinds, we have mixed it up this year and have gone straight into the battles, which is another touchstone of the format,” he said.
“We decided to move that up so the mentoring could happen quicker, the coaches could be more involved with the artist, and we could get to a more exciting part of the competition earlier in the run.”
The Voice is hosted by 2023 TV Week Gold Logie Award-winner Sonia Kruger and is an ITV Studios Australia production for the Seven Network.
The voice premieres at 7:30 pm on Monday, 19 August on Seven and 7plus.