I have been a professional musician for over 40 years. The Voice isn't something I would want to be involved with. It takes young singers whose nerves are peaking & then puts them up against another contestant to have a "ring war". This generates bad feeling & simply results in a screaming match, which in turn makes them sing off tune and out of time. It doesnt show anyone how they can really sing. One or two of the "coaches" seem to feel that they must act with aggression towards one another. This is akin to egging someone on to throw a brick through a window in a riot.

Last weekends show had one girl pitched against a boy who thought the way to win was to sing as many notes & vocal flourishes he could. He did win with the usual "you owned that song" or " your were incredible!" remarks. No cutaway to the losers family waiting in a side room or comment from the girl.

This setup is rigged to propel the pushy ones while chucking out the ones with the better voices. The Voice is a good idea gone wrong. The winner will be a one hit wonder.

Singing or playing an instrument is about creating music which others like listening to, its not about catfights or who is thin, fat can hit the highest not or display vocal gymnastics. As some great musicians have often said ist knowing what to leave out which makes a

They are totally different shows. The Voice is fantastic, but all the singers are either professional, been there done its and club singers, so it is bound to be fantastic as you've got the best from the start. BGT and X Factor are for anyone to join in! So really you can't compare! I loved the man on BGMT singing in the bag - mad!!!

'Some may say it is hardly surprising BGT is lagging behind after revelations about Simon Cowell's private life....' Nothing to do with the 'revelations' BGT is rubbish and has served it's day. Time for it and X-Factor to fade into the sunset.

it sounds like britain hasnt got talent are bitching because, even tho they changed time slots so they wouldnt have to compete (and lose) with the voice, that the move hasnt worked.
when first air'd cowell said he hated dog acts, now he's singing the praise's of the lastest one on his show.
about time itv axed him and his worn out tired programme.

Hasn't anyone noticed that BBC overrun nearly all of their evening programmes so that you have to miss the first 30-60 seconds of any other channels offerings. It is a deliberate tool to give them better ratings and it stinks. Heads need to roll at the Beeb!

Totally bored now of Simon and BGT and the next thing round the corner the X Factor, all old hat now The voice is something different to watch albeit another singing comp, but never mind atleast Simon Cowell isnt in it.

The only winners in these programmes are the judge's..... and the televison programme makers.

They are other programme to watch, get a life....

see some stations don't cut off Britains best talent, unlike some stations that air shows/events like ummmmmmm Brit Awards

I prefer 'The Voice' to 'X-Factor' or 'BGT' because there's no fix factor involved.

In order to get in-front of the celebrity judges on the x-factor and bgt the auditionees have to go through several rounds, yet you'll continually see bad acts getting infront of the cameras; if the shows we're all about talent that wouldnt happen. And when you consider that employees of the x-factor were going out handing, what they consider, good-looking people golden tickets to by-pass the early stages and get infront of the cameras, even though they tould them they couldnt sing, with their response "It doesnt matter"!. Then there were the audience; producers only letting good-looking people to sit behind the judges the entire show shuts out "FIX". Also not forgetting acts like 'Frankie Coccazer', 'Goldi' etc who couldnt sing but they kept going through, no dont to meddling producers/simon cowell to get the so-called entertainment or to get the girls tuning in.

Then you got the voice; the people auditioning all could sing, some better than others, and the judges couldnt even see what the auditionee looked like so they had to go purely on 'The Voice'.

Anyway simons shows have been going downhill in the ratings the past couple yeas anyway, good to see a better show hit the market and take their thrown.

Even if the voice went over by 3minutes if people whated to watch BGT then they would've switched channels.

Oh will Simon Cowell ever get over himself and stop wining like a spoilt schoolboy when everything dos't make him smell of Roses.
Its nice to see him without that smug, I'm rich and you're not smirk on his mush for a change and by the way, The Voice is so so much better than anything he has done for a long time, I think it was a stroke of genius having a living legend like Mr Jones on the panel (even though he is Welsh), the very cool Will, the gorgeous and lovable Jessie and some Irish guy.

What's new about BBC/TV over running?,I have my recorders set to start early & stop later.It puzzles me how recorded programmes can over run anyway,radio can keep time why can't TV?

Just wait a cotton picking minute here............. A few weeks ago ITV schedule BGT to overlap The Voice by half an hour, and now, since they moved BGT as it wasn't doing so well head to head with The voice, they are getting their knickers in a twist because the Voice overlapped BGT by.....wait for it.... a whole THREE MINUTES! hmmmmm!
And for the record, BGT faff about so much at the beginning, showing various cities, then of course have to go through who the judges are (like we don't know by now), that it takes a good 6-7 mins before we see the first act, and quite honestly, a lot of times I have sat and wondered why the heck I bothered waiting.
Sorry Simon, but if you honestly think a 3 min overlap is dirty tricks, I'm speechless (which let me tell you, is a rare thing for me) :0)

WHO CARES...............LOLOLOLOLOL

I watched the voice and BGT (watched BGT on ITV+1) but I have to say I wasn't impressed with The Voice AT ALL!! Firstly I fail to understand why two of the judges are even there (I'm sure you can work out which two) and I can't believe how some of the contestants were chosen for the live shows - one was even picked because of her AGE!! How was the other girl EVER going to compete? She was the better singer by a MILE and yet lost her place because Will I Am started banging on about about when he was 17!! I find the judges (except Tom Jones) completely full of themselves and Jesse J is just plain annoying - she has been in the industry for FOUR years how the hell does that qualify her to make judgements of future career of others?? At least three of her choices weren't even in tune!! I enjoyed the selection process of the show but in the sing off's (because of the competition element) they were encouraged to just shout and the loudest won - save for a couple of people, the contestants were nothing special!