The Voice Senior (Russian TV series)

The Voice Senior Голос. 60+
Genre	Music program
Created by	John de Mol Roel van Velzen
Developed by	Talpa Content
Directed by	Ildous Kurmaleev Andrey Sychev
Presented by	Dmitry Nagiev
Judges	Leonid Agutin Pelageya Lev Leshchenko Valery Meladze Valeriya Mikhail Boyarsky Tamara Gverdtsiteli Elena Vaenga Garik Sukachov Stas Namin Laima Vaikule Valery Leontiev Oleg Gazmanov
Opening theme	This is The Voice Senior
Country of origin	Russia
Original language	Russian
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	13
Production
Producers	Yury Aksyuta Evgeniy Orlov Andrey Sergeev
Production locations	Moscow, Mosfilm
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	120–135 minutes
Production company	Channel One
Release
Original network	Channel One
Picture format	HDTV 1080i
Audio format	Dolby Digital 5.1
Original release	September 14, 2018 (2018-09-14) – present
Chronology
Preceded by	The Voice (Russia) The Voice Kids (Russia)
Related shows	The Voice The Voice Senior (Netherlands)
External links
The Voice Senior (Channel One)

The Voice Senior (Russian: Голос. 60+) is a Russian singing competition television series broadcast on Channel One. Based on the original The Voice Senior, it has aired one season and aims to find currently unsigned singing talent (solo or duets, professional and amateur) contested by aspiring singers, age 60 or over, drawn from public auditions. The winner will be determined by television viewers voting by telephone, SMS text, and The Voice App. The winners of the four seasons have been: Lidia Muzaleva, Leonid Sergienko, Dina Yudina and Mikhail Serebryakov.

The series employs a panel of four coaches who critique the artists' performances and guide their teams of selected artists through the remainder of the season. They also compete to ensure that their act wins the competition, thus making them the winning coach. The original panel featured Leonid Agutin (season 1), Pelageya (seasons 1―2), Lev Leshchenko (seasons 1―3), and Valery Meladze (season 1). The panel for the upcoming fourth season features Stas Namin (season 4), Laima Vaikule (season 4), Valery Leontiev (season 4), and Oleg Gazmanov (season 4). Other coaches from previous seasons include Valeriya (season 2), Mikhail Boyarsky (season 2), Tamara Gverdtsiteli (season 3), Elena Vaenga (season 3), and Garik Sukachov (season 3).

The Voice Senior began airing on September 14, 2018,^[1] as an autumn TV season programme. In May 2021, Channel One renewed the series through its fourth series that premiered on autumn 2021.

Conception[]

An adaptation of the Dutch show The Voice Senior, Channel One announced the show under the name Голос. 60+ (The Voice. 60+).

In each season, the winner receives ₽1,000,000.

Selection process and format[]

Blind auditions

Each season begins with the "Blind auditions," where coaches form their team of artists (4 artists in season 1-2, 5 artists since season 3) whom they mentor through the remainder of the season. The coaches' chairs are faced towards the audience during artists' performances; those interested in an artist press their button, which turns their chair towards the artist and illuminates the bottom of the chair to read "Я выбираю тебя" ("I Want You"). At the conclusion of the performance, an artist either defaults to the only coach who turned around or selects his or her coach if more than one coach expresses interest.

Knockouts

The Knockouts are similar to the Sing-offs in The Voice Kids. In the "Knockout Rounds," four (or five) artists within a team sing individual performances in succession. At the conclusion of the performances, coach would decide which two of four (or five) artists get to advance to the Final.

Final

In the final live performance phase of the competition, artists perform in live show, where public voting narrows to a final group of four artists and eventually declares a winner.

Addition

In each season along with determining the winner, television viewers vote for the Best coach (but in season 2 the public didn't determinate the Best coach) using The Voice App and HbbTV option in their TV sets.

Coaches and presenter[]

Coaches timeline[]

• Coaches gallery
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  Leonid Agutin (2018)

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  Pelageya (2018—2019)

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  Lev Leshchenko (2018—2020)

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  Valery Meladze (2018)

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  Valeriya (2019)

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  Mikhail Boyarsky (2019)

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  Tamara Gverdtsiteli (2020)

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  Elena Vaenga (2020)

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  Garik Sukachov (2020)

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  Stas Namin (2021-)

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  Laima Vaikule (2021-)

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  Valery Leontiev (2021-)

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  Oleg Gazmanov (2021-)

Presenter[]

Dmitry Nagiev, the presenter of The Voice and The Voice Kids became the confirmed presenter on August 13, 2018.

• Presenter
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  Dmitry Nagiev

Series overview[]

Best coach[]

Reception[]

Seasons average: Ratings[]

The first season premiered on September 14, 2018 with a 5.6 rating in the 18–49 demographic. For its average season rating, the show was in the Top 5 at a 5.45 ranking.

The second season premiered on September 13, 2019 with a 4.8 in the 18–49 demographic. It was down from last season's premiere by .8 rating scores.

The third season will premiere on September 4, 2020 with a 4.9 in the 18–49 demographic. It was up from last season's premiere by .1 rating scores.

Each Russian network television season starts in late August and ends in late May.

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