The new season of The Voice Kids hasn’t even been shown on television yet, but the winner is already on the street. Which medium will bring this out? “It’s going like wildfire.”
The Voice Kids will only be broadcast on RTL 4 from the end of summer, but the final was already recorded in November last year. That was over eight months ago. And as is the way with secrets in a small world like the TV world: they don’t stay secrets for long. Reality FBI reports that the winner’s name is already spreading like wildfire.
Wildfire
Everyone in musical land already knows it, says Reality FBI. “The Voice Kids has yet to be broadcast, but the winner has already been leaked. It is spreading like wildfire in musical land. Whether we share it or others, it is a matter of time.”
The juice channel continues: “We spoke to several people from the musical scene and actually everyone already knows. There is no live final, as we previously had at the big Voice. Should we announce this now, or should we wait until it happens anyway?”
Playing with fire
TV authority Tina Nijkamp is clear: this is playing with fire. According to her, the problem is simple: if you record a program so far in advance, you increase the risk of leaks exponentially. A lot can change in a year: personal circumstances, career changes, social media picking up a photo or hint.
RTL 4 has put itself in a difficult position by recording the final in November while the broadcast will not take place until the summer, according to Tina. “Of course that’s really not possible, is it? A lot can happen in a year anyway, but this will only be broadcast on RTL 4 from the end of the summer,” she says in Tina’s TV Update.
“That ruins everything!”
Tina hopes that the name will not be widely reported. “I actually hope that they won’t announce that name. That would ruin a lot of viewing pleasure for people, I think, but it is of course very worrying that that name is floating around. Things go wrong with all those recordings that were recorded way too far in advance.”
She concludes: “I think that channels should think carefully about whether they want to record a program so far in advance, because a lot can change in a year or six months.”