#THE VOICE NOVEMBER 11 2015 PROFESSIONAL#
#THE VOICE NOVEMBER 11 2015 SERIES#

Voice123 punishes talent for auditioning too much. The main difference between this and is that Voices requires clients to pay the money for the jobs to Voices once the agreement starts. There could be thousands of jobs where people just posted them and they never happened. V123, when you get a job, asks you through email whether or not you received the job and you can say yes or no. Voice123 doesn't escrow money, so the jobs can very much not exist. There are a few REALLY bad things about V123 that all new VO talents need to know.ġ) Jobs in V123 don't have to be ACTUAL JOBS! It is also contesting a leader in Monday’s Mirror that claimed that BBC sources had denied the story.For those who are unfamiliar, Voice123 is a pay-to-play service where they send you auditions for jobs.

#THE VOICE NOVEMBER 11 2015 PROFESSIONAL#

The corporation claims that it answered her queries in a reasonable and professional manner, was not in a position to confirm or deny the fate of The Voice and received no complaint from the Mirror at the time.

*The BBC contests that its briefing to Nicola Methven was “inadequate” and says it has not apologised to the Mirror. And I’m pleased to put the record straight. In fairness, it is rare for such a very clear untruth to be told in such circumstances. However, the real culprits are clear enough, are they not? In my view, when PRs tell lies, whether knowingly or because they have been misinformed by their employers, they should be exposed. And I must add my apology to her for my “hopelessly wrong” remark. I understand that Methven has received private apologies from the people who briefed her incorrectly and/or inadequately. The statement was false.Īlthough the BBC had not “axed” the show because its bid was live at the time Methven’s story appeared, she did reflect, quite correctly, that ITV’s bid was likely to be successful. But, of course, no such announcement was ever made. Only after the splash appeared did the BBC say that negotiations over The Voice were ongoing.Īs Methven says, in the face of such statements, it was understandable that the editor felt he must pull her story. In addition, Methven felt the BBC’s press office responded to her original queries with “woefully inadequate briefings”.

#THE VOICE NOVEMBER 11 2015 SERIES#

She was told that a press release announcing a multi-year deal for the series to continue on BBC1 would be released the following morning.

So why did her paper not stick by her in October, replacing her splash between editions?Įvidently, after the The Voice’s producers, Wall to Wall, read her piece it was denied by a PR acting on its behalf.

So Methven was obviously delighted to report on Sunday that ITV was indeed picking up the show. She wrote at the time: “They have given up on screening a sixth run in 2017, leaving the door open for rivals ITV to snap up the show, which pulls in 8m viewers.”Īnd lo and behold, as the Guardian’s Tara Conlan reported on 2 November, it was ITV that looked set to be the beneficiary. He confirmed, just as Methven had previously written, that the BBC was letting it go because the cash-strapped corporation didn’t want to get into a bidding war Its fifth season, said BBC Television’s acting director, would be its last. I pointed instead to a Guardian report which stated that the BBC was expected to hang on to The Voice.īut it transpired on Saturday (7 November) that the BBC was, after all, giving up on The Voice. I said the Mirror’s removal of the story suggested Methven had “got it hopelessly wrong” over the programme’s fate.

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