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Michelle McNulty, the casting director for NBC's new hit series The Voice, comes in. McNulty and her team spent months tracking down performers in clubs, at rehearsal studios, on YouTube and via personal contacts in order to find the right contestants.TV critics have been impressed with the caliber of talent on The Voice, particularly in the premiere episode - and credit much of the show's early success to those performances. "We were looking for singers that might not audition for American Idol or any of those other competition shows," McNulty says. "We were looking for real artists"...

While the judges haven't heard the voices until the contestants hit the stage, that isn't their first audition. In fact, there are three total.

NBC’s megahit singing competition 'The Voice' makes contestants sign a 'dehumanizing' 32-page legal document that allows for plenty of potential for fakery during the production of the supposed reality show.

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For over 13 years, the reality singing competition has captivated, dare I say hypnotized, American television audiences. It started in 2002 with American Idol, and-as far as TV networks are

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In the first week of blind auditions, certain members of The Voice’s coaching quartet (cough, Pharrell Williams, cough) were clearly being favored by the most-courted contestants, and in the third round of song and seat slinging, that tradition holds firm at first.