The Voice Senior (Russian TV series)
The Voice Senior 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 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 two seasons have been: :ru:Музалёва, Лидия Михайловна|Lidia Muzaleva and Leonid Sergienko.
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, Pelageya, Lev Leshchenko, and Valery Meladze; the panel for the upcoming second season features Pelageya, Leshchenko, Valeria, and Mikhail Boyarsky.
The Voice Senior began airing on September 14, 2018, as an autumn TV season programme. The series premiered its second season on September 13, 2019.
Conception
An adaptation of the Dutch show The Voice Senior, Channel One announced the show under the name Голос. 60+.In each season, the winner receives ₽1,000,000.
Selection process and format
;Blind auditionsEach season begins with the "Blind auditions," where coaches form their team of artists 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". 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 artists within a team sing individual performances in succession. At the conclusion of the performances, coach would decide which two of four 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 alongside with the determining of the winner, television viewers vote for the best season coach using The Voice App and HbbTV option in their TV sets.
Coaches and presenter
Coaches timeline
, Pelageya, and Valery Meladze became the first confirmed coaches on August 13, 2018, followed by Lev Leshchenko on August 14, 2018. Agutin and Meladze did not return for season two and were replaced by Mikhail Boyarsky and Valeria.Presenter
, the presenter of The Voice and The Voice Kids became the confirmed presenter on August 13, 2018.Series overview
Season synopses
Names in bold type indicate the winner of the season.Season 1
The first season of The Voice Senior premiered on September 14, 2018. The original coaching panel consists of Leonid Agutin, Pelageya, Lev Leshchenko, and Valery Meladze. Dmitry Nagiev appeared as the presenter.Each coach was allowed to advance two top to the Final:
| ' | ' | ' | ' |
| :ru:Арутюнов, Николай Рафаэлевич|Nikolay Arutyunov | :ru:Музалёва, Лидия Михайловна|Lidia Muzaleva | Evgeniy Strugalskiy | :ru:Манукян, Сергей Владимирович|Sergey Manukyan |
| :ru:Агутин, Николай Петрович|Nikolay Agutin | Olga Muravina | Viktor Zuev | Natalia Spevak |
Four finalists were advanced to the 2nd final round. :ru:Музалёва, Лидия Михайловна|Lidia Muzaleva was announced as the winner of the season, while Evgeniy Strugalskiy placed second, :ru:Арутюнов, Николай Рафаэлевич|Nikolay Arutyunov and :ru:Манукян, Сергей Владимирович|Sergey Manukyan placed both third, respectively.
Season 2
The second season of The Voice Senior premiered on September 13, 2019. Pelageya and Lev Leshchenko returned as coaches, while Mikhail Boyarsky and Valeria replaced Agutin and Meladze. Dmitry Nagiev returned as the presenter.Each coach was allowed to advance two top to the Final:
| ' | ' | ' | ' |
| Yury Shivrin | Leonid Sergienko | Vladimir Gritsyk | Elena Gurilyova |
| Bogdanovy Sisters | Mikhail Ryzhov | Lyudmila Pakhomova | Vladimir Laptev |
Four finalists were advanced to the 2nd final round. Leonid Sergienko was announced as the winner of the season, while Yury Shivrin placed second, Vladimir Gritsyk and Elena Gurilyova both placed third, respectively.
Best season coach
Reception
The first season premiered on September 14, 2018 with 5.6 rating scores in the 18–49 demographic.The second season premiered on September 13, 2019 with 4.8 in the 18–49 demographic. It was down from last season's premiere by.8 rating scores.