‘The Voice’ Announces Big Schedule Changes

As soon as the final five contestants on season 27 of “The Voice” are whittled down to one winner on May 20, 2025, the show’s producers will leap into preparations for season 28, likely to start filming within weeks of the finale. During the last two years, NBC has filmed back-to-back seasons each summer.

NBC has already announced that season 28 will include a big coaching change, with Michael Bublé as the only coach from season 27 returning. He’ll be joined by Snoop Dogg, Reba McEntire, and Niall Horan. But there are scheduling changes in the works, too, that could be a bit challenging for fans to navigate this fall.

‘The Voice’ Season 28 Will Get Squeezed Down to Just 1 Hour Per Week by November

The schedule for “The Voice” during the fall of 2025 could throw fans for a loop as NBC tries to squeeze in NBC games and its popular sitcoms, including the second season of McEntire’s “Happy’s Place.”

According to Deadline, the two-hour season 28 premiere of “The Voice” is expected to take place on Tuesday, September 16. The night before, NBC will air the “America’s Got Talent” season finale. But after that — at least for the remainder of September — “The Voice” will follow its usual format, with two-hour shows on Mondays and Tuesdays.

The schedule starts to shift in October. NBA games are moving to NBC, which means “The Voice” will begin airing just one night a week, with two-hour shows on Mondays only. There will be no recap episodes on Tuesdays, as has been common during season 27.

Fans will get even less of “The Voice” in November, per Deadline, when those two-hour Monday night shows get squeezed down to just one-hour episodes. Meanwhile, December is currently a bit of wild card because the NBA schedule set in stone yet. Depending on how that shakes out, Deadline reported there may be some episodes of “The Voice” that air on Tuesdays that month.

‘The Voice’ Season 27 Has Struggled in the Ratings

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Although season 27 of “The Voice” got off to a good start with an earlier-than-normal premiere in early February, its ratings slipped significantly, according to Collider, especially after its biggest competitor — “American Idol” on ABC — kicked off in early March.

In February and early March, “The Voice” topped Monday night ratings, Collider reported, drawing over five million people per episode during its first seven weeks on-air. But by late March, “Idol” had taken over and in early April, “The Voice” ratings had dropped by 27%.

It’s not known yet how the May 12 and 13 semifinals did in the ratings, but according to data published by TV Series Finale, the first round of “The Voice” playoffs on May 5 drew one of the lowest audiences of the season, with just 3.5 million tuning in.