The Voice is set to go head to head with Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway as the show kicks off with the first episode of its new series tonight.

Both shows will be starting in the 7pm slot so will be forcing viewers to make a decision as to which one they want to watch.

The Voice has its work cut out for it as this series of Saturday Night Takeaway has been so successful that it has just been recommissioned for another series and the boys are likely to be number one in the charts this weekend after performing “Let’s Get Ready to Rhumble” on last week’s show.

Last year’s series of The Voice was put head to head with Britain’s Got Talent and did well against it, at least until the live shows where ratings fell.

The BBC has a few aces up their sleeves though and tonight’s show will kick off with contestant Andrea Begley who is partially sighted but happy to be judged solely on the merit of her singing voice.

The Irish singer was helped onto stage by the floor manager and said: “Once your sight is gone there is no means of getting it back.

“I had to adapt things, for example playing with my friends and watching TV, ordinary things that you take for granted.”

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