The Voice of Holland

The Voice of Holland
Genre	Reality television
Created by	John de Mol Roel van Velzen
Developed by	Talpa Network
Directed by	Martijn Nieman Jeroen van Zalk Sander Vahle
Presented by	Martijn Krabbé Wendy van Dijk Chantal Janzen Winston Gerschtanowitz Jamai Loman
Starring	The Voice of Holland Band with Jeroen Rietbergen
Judges	Roel van Velzen Jeroen van der Boom Angela Groothuizen Nick & Simon Marco Borsato Trijntje Oosterhuis Ali B Ilse DeLange Sanne Hans Anouk Guus Meeuwis Waylon Lil' Kleine Jan Smit Glennis Grace
Voices of	Martijn Krabbé
Country of origin	Netherlands
Original language	Dutch
No. of seasons	12
No. of episodes	137
Production
Running time	120 minutes (inc. adverts)
Production companies	Talpa Media (2010–2019) ITV Studios (2019–2022)
Original release
Network	RTL 4 (2010–2022)
Release	17 September 2010 (2010-09-17) – 14 January 2022 (2022-01-14)
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The Voice of Holland, also known by its acronym TVOH, is a Dutch reality TV singing competition that became a global TV format franchise, created by media tycoon John de Mol and musician Roel van Velzen in the Netherlands and airs on RTL 4. For the first nine seasons, The Voice of Holland was hosted by Martijn Krabbé and Wendy van Dijk. Starting from the tenth season (2019–2020), Wendy van Dijk was replaced by Chantal Janzen.

The central focus of the show is the singing talent and quality of the contestants. Three or four coaches,^[1] themselves successful performing artists, train the talents in their teams, and occasionally perform with them. After many preliminary off-screen audition rounds, the most promising talents are selected for the televised shows. Crucially, this happens in so-called "blind auditions", during which the coaches cannot see, but only hear the candidates perform. Not until the talent gets chosen by a coach, or when they have finished singing, do the coaches' chairs rotate towards them, and are they revealed to the coaches.

The first episodes are pre-recorded in front of a live studio audience, so that the coaches can experience the audience's reaction to the candidate, and are sometimes influenced by it. The following episodes are recorded wherein some singers lose their spot on the team, and others are promoted to subsequent rounds, through singing challenges in various formats, until only a small group remain in the competition. The format then switches to several live shows, in which the audience take an active part in the judging process, and more singers are voted out until one winner remains.