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Pitch Battle

{{short description|Television series}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox television

| image =

| genre = Music

| creator =

| presenter = Mel Giedroyc

| judges = {{Plainlist |

}}

| composer = Jack Blume
Joanne Evans

| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

| num_series = 1

| num_episodes = 6

| location = Dock10{{cite web |url=https://www.dock10.co.uk/about/news/let-pitch-battle-commence-at-dock10/ |title=Let Pitch Battle commence at dock10! |publisher=Dock10 |accessdate=20 September 2021}}

| runtime = 90 minutes

| channel = BBC One

| company = Tuesday's Child

| first_aired = {{Start date|2017|6|17|df=y}}

| last_aired = {{End date|2017|7|22|df=y}}

| related =

}}

Pitch Battle is a British singing show hosted by Mel Giedroyc on BBC One, which aired for one series in 2017.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2017/pitch-battle|title=BBC – Let Pitch Battle commence! – Media Centre|website=www.bbc.co.uk|language=en-GB|access-date=2017-05-30}} The show sees rival musical groups facing-off against each other, inspired by the 2012 film Pitch Perfect.{{cite web|url=http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2017-06-17/what-time-is-pitch-battle-on-tv|title=What time is Pitch Battle on TV?|publisher=}} At the final on 22 July 2017, Leeds Contemporary Singers were crowned the winners.

Judges and presenters

File:Pitch Battle Finale Judges.jpg

The series was hosted by Mel Giedroyc and is joined each week by judges Gareth Malone and Kelis and series music director Deke Sharon. Guest judges for the series are Will Young (first episode), Chaka Kahn (second), Bebe Rexha (third). Seal (fourth) and Joe Jonas (fifth). All performed in the live finale, with Deke Sharon filling the third judging seat.

Jermaine Jackson joined as a sixth special guest for the live finale (paired with the wild card group). Due to work commitments Joe was not able to attend the live final so his brother Nick Jonas attended and performed in his place.

Format

Each episode of the show features a variety of groups, one of which is a cappella, and the others, ranging in style (community choir, show choir, gospel group, etc.) perform with the show's live band. After an opening number featuring the 6 new groups, the groups are paired off, each performing their "showstopper", followed by a back-and-forth Pitch Perfect-inspired riff off on a specific theme, after which one of the two groups is eliminated. The remaining three groups then perform a song featuring a soloist, after which the judges eliminate one more group, then the final two sing a song by the guest judge, back and forth, during which the guest judge grabs a mic and starts singing joining the winning group.

The live finale has a couple of additional features: All five winning groups will perform with the judge that chose them (with the wild card group paired with a sixth celebrity). In addition, instead of a solo round, the top 3 groups will all sing a song a cappella.

Battles

The battles consist of three rounds; in the first round 2 choirs battle each other with a song of choice then again in the 'Riff-off' where a theme is selected at random and both choirs sing songs based around that theme, the judges will then select which choir they would like to advance to the solo battle. For the solo battle each choir will select one member to perform 1 song solo, once all 3 choirs have performed the judges will then collectively pick the 2 best choirs to proceed to the final battle. In the final battle both choirs will perform the same song originally performed by that week's guest judge and try and out sing their opponent, while the choirs are performing the judges will deliberate and the guest judge will then join both choirs on stage and sing alongside the winning choir, that choir will then advance to the live final where they will perform a song with their guest judge.

=Episode 1=

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|+ Performances on the first show

! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:05%;"| Order

! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:13%;"| Choir

! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:20%;"| Song one

! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:26%;"| Riff-off

! colspan="3" style="width:40%;"| Coaches and artists choices

! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:05%;"| Result

style="width:10%;"| Will

! style="width:10%;"| Kelis

! style="width:10%;"| Gareth

rowspan="2" scope="row" | 1

| LMA Choir

| "Just the Way You Are"

| "Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel"/ "Angel"/ "Pretty Little Angel Eyes"

| {{green|✔}}

| {{green|✔}}

| -

| Advanced

style="background:pink;

| The Uptone Girls

| "Changing"/ "Afterglow"/ "Waiting All Night"

| "There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)"/ "Halo"/ "Angels"

| -

| -

| {{green|✔}}

| Eliminated

rowspan="2" scope="row" | 2

| Leeds Contemporary Singers

| "Runnin' (Lose It All)"

| "Apologize"/ "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word"/ "Hello"

| {{green|✔}}

| {{green|✔}}

| {{green|✔}}

| Advanced

style="background:pink;

| Vocally Bespoke

| "Hold Back the River"

| "Sorry"/ "When All Is Said and Done"/ "I Should Have Known Better"

| -

| -

| -

| Eliminated

style="background:pink;

! rowspan="2" scope="row" | 3

| Vocal Dimension Chorus

| "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)"

| "The One and Only"/ "Born This Way"/ "I'm Too Sexy"

| -

| -

| -

| Eliminated

A Flame

| "Unconditionally"

| "Love Yourself"/ "Beautiful"/ "Love Myself"

| {{green|✔}}

| {{green|✔}}

| {{green|✔}}

| Advanced

colspan="8" | Solo battle
scope="row" | 1

| LMA Choir

| colspan="2" | "Purple Rain"

| -

| -

| -

| Advanced

scope="row" | 2

| Leeds Contemporary Singers

| colspan="2" | "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)"

| -

| -

| -

| Advanced

style="background:pink;

! scope="row" | 3

| A Flame

| colspan="2" | "Who You Are"

| -

| -

| -

| Eliminated

colspan="8" | Final battle
style="background:#ff9;

! scope="row" | 1

| LMA Choir

| colspan="2" | "Evergreen"

| -

| -

| -

| Runners-up

style="background:lightgreen;

! scope="row" | 2

| Leeds Contemporary Singers

| colspan="2" | "Evergreen"

| -

| -

| -

| Winners

=Episode 2=

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|+ Performances on the second show

! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:05%;"| Order

! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:13%;"| Choir

! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:20%;"| Song one

! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:26%;"| Riff-off

! colspan="3" style="width:40%;"| Coaches and artists choices

! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:05%;"| Result

style="width:10%;"| Chaka

! style="width:10%;"| Kelis

! style="width:10%;"| Gareth

rowspan="2" scope="row" | 1

| ScotSoul

| "Castle on the Hill"

| "Marvin Gaye"/ "Rasputin"/ "Grace Kelly"

| {{green|✔}}

| {{green|✔}}

| -

| Advanced

style="background:pink;

| Out of the Blue

| "Livin' la Vida Loca"

| "Moves like Jagger"/ "Vincent"/ "Vogue"

| -

| -

| {{green|✔}}

| Eliminated

style="background:pink;

! rowspan="2" scope="row" | 2

| City Academy Songbirds

| "Hold On"

| "Count On Me"/ "Umbrella"/ "Friend Like Me"

| -

| -

| -

| Eliminated

Soul Train

| "Human"

| "I'll Be There for You"/ "With a Little Help from My Friends"/ "Army"

| {{green|✔}}

| {{green|✔}}

| {{green|✔}}

| Advanced

rowspan="2" scope="row" | 3

| The Flyboys

| "Livin' on a Prayer"

| "Beggin'"/ "Please Don't Leave Me"/ "Don't Leave Me This Way"

| {{green|✔}}

| {{green|✔}}

| {{green|✔}}

| Advanced

style="background:pink;

| The Noteables

| "Some Nights"

| "Mercy"/ "Please Don't Go"/ "Is There Something I Should Know?"

| -

| -

| -

| Eliminated

colspan="8" | Solo battle
style="background:pink;

! scope="row" | 1

| Soul Train

| colspan="2" | "Ordinary People"

| -

| -

| -

| Eliminated

scope="row" | 2

| ScotSoul

| colspan="2" | "Clown"

| -

| -

| -

| Advanced

scope="row" | 3

| The Flyboys

| colspan="2" | "Fever"/ "Tainted Love"

| -

| -

| -

| Advanced

colspan="8" | Final battle
style="background:lightgreen;

! scope="row" | 1

| ScotSoul

| colspan="2" | "Ain't Nobody"

| -

| -

| -

| Winners

style="background:#ff9;

! scope="row" | 2

| The Flyboys

| colspan="2" | "Ain't Nobody"

| -

| -

| -

| Runners-up

=Episode 3=

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|+ Performances on the third show

! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:05%;"| Order

! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:13%;"| Choir

! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:20%;"| Song one

! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:26%;"| Riff-off

! colspan="3" style="width:40%;"| Coaches and artists choices

! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:05%;"| Result

style="width:10%;"| Bebe

! style="width:10%;"| Kelis

! style="width:10%;"| Gareth

rowspan="2" scope="row" | 1

| All The King's Men

| "Worth It"

| "Holding Out for a Hero"/ "Hero"/ "Flash"

| {{green|✔}}

| -

| {{green|✔}}

| Advanced

style="background:pink;

| Alle Choir

| "Fly me to the Moon"

| "Heroes (We Could Be)"/ "Hero"/ "Spider-Man"

| -

| {{green|✔}}

| -

| Eliminated

style="background:pink;

! rowspan="2" scope="row" | 2

| London International Gospel Choir

| "I Want You Back"/ "ABC"

| "Disco Inferno"/ "Relight My Fire"/ "Set Fire to the Rain"

| {{green|✔}}

| -

| -

| Eliminated

Songbird Sessions

| "You've Got The Love"

| "Burn"/ "St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)"/ "Firework"

| -

| {{green|✔}}

| {{green|✔}}

| Advanced

rowspan="2" scope="row" | 3

| Sgarmes

| "The Edge of Glory"

| "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together / "Cry Me a River" / "Since U Been Gone"

| {{green|✔}}

| {{green|✔}}

| {{green|✔}}

| Advanced

style="background:pink;

| The 4 Tune Tellers And Kimmy

| "Bang Bang"

| "You Give Love a Bad Name" / "Cry Me a River" / "I'm Still Standing"

| -

| -

| -

| Eliminated

colspan="8" | Solo battle
scope="row" | 1

| All The King's Men

| colspan="2" | "Left Hand Free"

| -

| -

| -

| Advanced

style="background:pink;

! scope="row" | 2

| Songbird Sessions

| colspan="2" | "How Deep Is Your Love?"

| -

| -

| -

| Eliminated

scope="row" | 3

| Sgarmes

| colspan="2" | "Somebody to Love"

| -

| -

| -

| Advanced

colspan="8" | Final battle
style="background:lightgreen;

! scope="row" | 1

| All The King's Men

| colspan="2" | "Take Me Home"

| -

| -

| -

| Winner

style="background:#ff9;

! scope="row" | 2

| Sgarmes

| colspan="2" | "Take Me Home"

| -

| -

| -

| Runners-up

  • Sgarmes was later selected as the wildcard and performed in the final.

=Episode 4=

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|+ Performances on the fourth show

! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:05%;"| Order

! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:13%;"| Choir

! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:20%;"| Song one

! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:26%;"| Riff-off

! colspan="3" style="width:40%;"| Coaches and artists choices

! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:05%;"| Result

style="width:10%;"| Seal

! style="width:10%;"| Kelis

! style="width:10%;"| Gareth

rowspan="2" scope="row" | 1

| The Bristol Suspensions

| "Car Wash"

| "Lady Marmalade"/ "We No Speak Americano"/ "Hips Don't Lie"

| {{green|✔}}

| {{green|✔}}

| {{green|✔}}

| Advanced

style="background:pink;

| Over The Water

| "Cake by the Ocean"

| "Voulez-Vous"/ "Tilted"/ "Rock Me Amadeus"

| -

| -

| -

| Eliminated

rowspan="2" scope="row" | 2

| Perfect 6th

| "Uptown Funk"

| "You Are the Sunshine of My Life"/ "Walking on Sunshine"/ "Let the Sunshine In"

| {{green|✔}}

| {{green|✔}}

| {{green|✔}}

| Advanced

style="background:pink;

| The Savannahs

| "Wake Me Up"

| "You Are My Sunshine"/ "Sunshine"/ "Let the Sun Shine"

| -

| -

| -

| Eliminated

rowspan="2" scope="row" | 3

| Portsmouth University Gospel Choir

| "Roar"

| "Happy"/ "Don't Worry, Be Happy"/ "Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy"

| -

| {{green|✔}}

| {{green|✔}}

| Advanced

style="background:pink;

|Vocal-I-sing{{Cite web|url=https://www.vocal-I-sing.com|title=Vocal-I-sing}}

| "Here I Go Again"

| "Born to Make You Happy"/ "Oh Happy Day"/ "Get Happy/ Happy Days"

| {{green|✔}}

| -

| -

| Eliminated

colspan="8" | Solo battle
style="background:pink;

! scope="row" | 1

| The Bristol Suspensions

| colspan="2" | "I Can't Make You Love Me"

| -

| -

| -

| Eliminated

scope="row" | 2

| Perfect 6th

| colspan="2" | "How Far I'll Go"

| -

| -

| -

| Advanced

scope="row" | 3

| Portsmouth University Gospel Choir

| colspan="2" | "Thinking Out Loud"

| -

| -

| -

| Advanced

colspan="8" | Final battle
style="background:#ff9;

! scope="row" | 1

| Perfect 6th

| colspan="2" | "Kiss from a Rose"

| -

| -

| -

| Runners-up

style="background:lightgreen;

! scope="row" | 2

| Portsmouth University Gospel Choir

| colspan="2" | "Kiss from a Rose"

| -

| -

| -

| Winners

=Episode 5=

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|+ Performances on the fifth show

! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:05%;"| Order

! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:13%;"| Choir

! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:20%;"| Song one

! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:26%;"| Riff-off

! colspan="3" style="width:40%;"| Coaches and artists choices

! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:05%;"| Result

style="width:10%;"| Joe

! style="width:10%;"| Kelis

! style="width:10%;"| Gareth

rowspan="2" scope="row" | 1

| Tring Park 16

| "Believer"

| "I Knew You Were Trouble"/ "Bridge over Troubled Water"/ "Trouble"

| {{green|✔}}

| {{green|✔}}

| {{green|✔}}

| Advanced

style="background:pink;

| Crescendo

| "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours"/ "Baby I Need Your Loving"/ "Reach Out I'll Be There"

| "Troublemaker"/ "Trouble"/ "Trouble with My Baby"

| -

| -

| -

| Eliminated

style="background:pink;

! rowspan="2" scope="row" | 2

| Vocalities

| "Send My Love (To Your New Lover)"

| "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)"/ "Dear Future Husband"/ "I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do"

| -

| -

| -

| Eliminated

The Ramparts

| "Shape of You"

| "Marry You"/ "Chapel of Love"/ "It Should Have Been Me"

| {{green|✔}}

| {{green|✔}}

| {{green|✔}}

| Advanced

style="background:pink;

! rowspan="2" scope="row" | 3

| Oxford Alternotives

| "SOS"/ "Diamonds"/ "We Found Love"

| "Rock and Roll"/ "Are You Lonesome Tonight?"/ "All by Myself"

| -

| -

| -

| Eliminated

VOX-XOVER

| "Barcelona"

| "Only the Lonely"/ "So Lonely"/ "On My Own"

| {{green|✔}}

| {{green|✔}}

| {{green|✔}}

| Advanced

colspan="8" | Solo battle
scope="row" | 1

| Tring Park 16

| colspan="2" | "When I Was Your Man"

| -

| -

| -

| Advanced

style="background:pink;

! scope="row" | 2

| VOX-XOVER

| colspan="2" | "Bring Me to Life"

| -

| -

| -

| Eliminated

scope="row" | 3

| The Ramparts

| colspan="2" | "Falling Slowly"

| -

| -

| -

| Advanced

colspan="8" | Final battle
style="background:lightgreen;

! scope="row" | 1

| Tring Park 16

| colspan="2" | "Kissing Strangers"

| -

| -

| -

| Winners

style="background:#ff9;

! scope="row" | 2

| The Ramparts

| colspan="2" | "Kissing Strangers"

| -

| -

| -

| Runners-up

Live final

Group Performance: "Hold My Hand" / "My Life Would Suck Without You" / "We Are Family" / "Music Sounds Better With You" / "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now / "We're All In This Together" / "Symphony"

Guest Performers: Rita Ora – "Your Song"

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|+ Performances on the Final

! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:05%;"| Order

! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:13%;"| Choir

! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:20%;"| Duet

! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:26%;"| Riff-off

! colspan="3" style="width:40%;"| Coaches and artists choices

! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:05%;"| Result

style="width:10%;"| Deke

! style="width:10%;"| Kelis

! style="width:10%;"| Gareth

rowspan="2" scope="row" | 1

| ScotSoul

|"I'm Every Woman" (with Chaka Khan)

|"I'm A Believer" / "You Sexy Thing" / "When You Believe"

| {{green|✔}}

| {{green|✔}}

| -

| Advanced

style="background:pink;

| Tring Park 16

|"Remember I Told You" (with Nick Jonas)

|"Believe" / "I Believe in a Thing Called Love" / "I Believe I Can Fly"

| -

| -

| {{green|✔}}

| Eliminated

rowspan="2" scope="row" | 2

| All The King's Men

| "The Way I Are (Dance with Somebody)" (with Bebe Rexha)

| "Live While We're Young" / "Mad About the Boy" / "Crazy In Love"

| {{green|✔}}

| -

| {{green|✔}}

| Advanced

style="background:pink;

| Portsmouth University Gospel Choir

| "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" (with Seal)

|"Crazy" / "Crazy" / "Crazy"

| -

| {{green|✔}}

| -

| Eliminated

rowspan="2" scope="row" | 3

| Leeds Contemporary Singers

|"Your Game" (with Will Young)

|"Prince Charming" / "Royals" / "King of the Road" / "Dancing Queen"

| {{green|✔}}

| {{green|✔}}

| {{green|✔}}

| Advanced

style="background:pink;

| Sgarmes

|"I'll Be There (with Jermaine Jackson)

|"My Name Is Prince" / "King" / "Killer Queen"

| -

| -

| -

| Eliminated

colspan="8" | Acapella battle
style="background:pink;

! scope="row" | 1

| ScotsSoul

| colspan="2" | "Lay Me Down"

| -

| -

| -

| Eliminated

scope="row" | 2

| All The King's Men

| colspan="2" | "Battlefield"

| -

| -

| -

| Advanced

scope="row" | 3

| Leeds Contemporary Singers

| colspan="2" | "Higher"

| -

| -

| -

| Advanced

colspan="8" | Final battle
style="background:#ff9;

! scope="row" | 1

| All The King's Men

| colspan="2" | "Rolling in the Deep"

| -

| -

| -

| Runners-up

style="background:lightgreen;

! scope="row" | 2

| Leeds Contemporary Singers

| colspan="2" | "Rolling in the Deep"

| -

| -

| -

| Winners

References

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External links

  • {{IMDb title|id=7141150|title=Pitch Battle}}
  • {{BBC programme|id=b08w8gmh}}
  • {{UKGameshow|Pitch_Battle}}

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