 |
People News
Ratings News
Scheduling News
Application News
Spoiler News
Show Updates Episode Summaries Image Gallery Message Boards Shows Listing |
 |
|
HOME
>
RealityTVDB
>
Dancing with the Stars
Dancing with the StarsDancing with the Stars (Courtesy Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Dancing with the Stars is a Primetime Emmy Award-nominated and People's Choice Award winning reality show airing on American Broadcasting Company in the United States. The show is based on the United Kingdom BBC Television series Strictly Come Dancing and is part of BBC Worldwide's international Dancing with the Stars franchise. Its sixth season began on March 17, 2008 and its seventh season is scheduled to begin around September 2008 as part of ABC's fall line-up. DescriptionThe show pairs a celebrity with a professional ballroom dancer. The professional dancer is responsible for teaching the celebrity how to perform specific dances, which the pair perform live on the show each week. The dancers are scored by a panel of three professional dance judges. Additionally, viewers of the program may vote by phone, text message, or online methods. The team which receives the lowest total score (a combination of the judges' scores and viewer votes) each week is eliminated from the competition.Dancing with the Stars is hosted by Emmy Award-winning game show host and TV personality, Tom Bergeron, and E! reporter Samantha Harris (who joined the show in season 2). For the first three weeks of the competition of season 5, season 2 celebrity champion Drew Lachey co-hosted with Bergeron while Harris was on maternity leave. The panel of judges consists of Len Goodman (head judge), Carrie Ann Inaba, and Bruno Tonioli. Harold Wheeler is the musical director. The announcements for the show's titles ("Live from Hollywood, This is "Dancing With the Stars") and introductions for the dances and judges' scores were recorded in the United Kingdom by Alan Dedicoat. Dancing with the Stars is broadcast live from CBS Television City in Los Angeles in Studio 46. The first three seasons were not aired in the UK. BBC One aired Season 4 on Sunday afternoons from Sunday, July 152007. On September 282007, UKTV Gold began airing Season 5. BBC America began to air Season 2 of the U.S. series on January 6, 2008, combining performance and results shows into 2-hour episodes. However, it was reported that many viewers of BBC America were unhappy with the decision, mainly due to the fact that the channel was showing repeats of an American-produced program, despite the BBC's involvement with the show. SeasonsDancing with the Stars (U.S. season 1)Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 2) Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 3) Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 4) Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 5) Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 6) DancesThe following are the dances performed by couples on Dancing with the Stars. In addition, each couple in the final round performs a dance of any style or combination of styles of their choosing, called "freestyle".
Winners
U.S. television ratingsSeasonal rankings (based on average total viewers per episode) of Dancing With The Stars on ABC.Note: Each U.S. network television season starts in late September and ends in late May, which coincides with the completion of Nielsen Ratings.
The September 20, 2005 drew 10.9 million viewers, while the results show two nights later drew just over 10.4 million. Dancing With The Stars was the most-watched Thursday night program on American Broadcasting Company since Who Wants to Be a Millionaire in 2000 and the most-watched Thursday 8 p.m. series on American Broadcasting Company since Mork & Mindy in 1979. In its second season, it attracted high viewing numbers similar to those of its timeslot competitor, CBS' Survivor: Panama. The first part of the series' second season aired on February 23, 2006. The other programs airing opposite Dancing With The Stars (14.8 million viewers from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m.) were: the Figure skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics on NBC (17.7 million viewers from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m.), an episode of CBS' Survivor: Panama (14.8 million viewers from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m.), and a results show during the fifth season of FOX's American Idol (23.5 million viewers from 8 p.m. to 9:02 p.m.). North American TourOn the October 25, 2006, results show, Dancing with the Stars " The Tour was announced. Produced by ABC and Anschutz Entertainment Group, the live-action tour features celebrities and professional dancers from U.S. seasons 1-3. The tour through 38 arena venues started in San Diego, California on December 19, 2006, and ended in Atlantic City, New Jersey on February 11, 2007. The pairs performing in the tour were:
Mel B.; front runner for season five, turned down the tour due to her Spice Girl Reunion Tour commentment. It was revealed that after a few shows, Cheryl Burke had to withdraw from the tour. It was thought that something had happened to her appendix and she would not be able to continue in the tour. Score StatisticsPerfect 30sJudges have awarded perfect 30 out of 30 to couples on the following occasions:
Number of Perfect 30s
Dances that have scored tens
Lowest ScoresThis is a list of the worst scores received. All scores at or below 15 are listed.
Best and Worst Scoring Performances By DanceCha-Cha-Cha
Best and Worst Scoring Performances by WeekWeek 1
Contestant StatisticsPhysical Statistics
Score Board Statistics
Score Statistics
Most "Popular" Ballroom Dance: Quickstep (chosen by Joey Lawrence, Apolo Anton Ohno, Laila Ali, Marie Osmond, and Marissa Jaret Winokur as their second Ballroom Dance) Most "Popular" Latin Dance: Cha-Cha-Cha (chosen by Jerry Rice, Mario Lopez, Emmitt Smith, Apolo Anton Ohno, Laila Ali, Jennie Garth, and Helio Castroneves as their second Latin Dance) Champion Statistics
Runner Up Statistics
Finalist Statistics
Season Statistics
General InformationEdyta Sliwinska is the only professional that has been on the show for every season. Cheryl Burke and Tony Dovolani have been on the show since season two, and Jonathan Roberts has been on each season except for season three.Scoring and voting procedureStarting in Season 3, the procedure for eliminating couples changed. Previously, only the overall ranking between competitors by the judges and the public was relevant. Starting in Season 3, the differential is now relevant.The scoring begins with the judges' marks. Each judge gives a 1 to 10 score, allowing for a highest score of 30, and a lowest score of three (though the lowest individual score ever given was a 2- Season 2, Master P, Paso Doble, and the lowest combined score was an 8). With multiple performances, the scores would all be added at the end of the program. The scores for all competitors are added together and each contestant's "judge share" is determined by dividing their score by the sum of all the scores combined and recorded as a percentage. This percentage is then added to the percentage of North American votes received by each contestant. The bottom two couples are identified in the results show, and the couple with the lowest combined total is eliminated. Public voting is conducted via a toll-free number, the ABC web site, and, most recently, text messages. Voters can place up to the number of couples performing that night to a minium of 5 votes per medium during and immediately after each performance show. WithdrawalsSara Evans in the third season was the first and only celebrity to withdraw from the competition, while in progress. She cited her divorce as the reason for leaving the competition. As a result, her professional partner, Tony Dovolani also became the first professional dancer to withdraw from the competition.Another withdrawal occurred during the run-up to Season 4, on February 28 when Vincent Pastore withdrew from the competition after only one week of training. Pastore said he did not realize how much work was needed during a ten-week period, and that he was not up to the physical demands of the show. He was replaced on March 2 by actor John Ratzenberger who was partnered with Edyta Sliwinska. RelationshipsOver the seasons there have only been two confirmed relationships between a professional dancer and their celebrity partner. These were Season 3's Mario Lopez and Karina Smirnoff and Season 5's Sabrina Bryan and Mark Ballas.There have been several rumored, but not confirmed, relationships over the seasons. Because of the closeness that comes from spending so many hours working with each other, it is easy to confuse a close friendship, or a "brother-sister" type relationship, with an actual romantic relationship. Julianne Hough has been part of two speculated romances, one with Apolo Anton Ohno in Season 4, and one with Helio Castroneves in Season 5, both have which been denied by the contestants and Julianne. They have been given "fan names" that are Apolianne and Helianne, respectively. The Helio romance rumor most likely came from the end of their infamous quickstep, where Helio kissed Julianne on the lips. Also, two-time champion Cheryl Burke and season 3's Joey Lawrence's brother Matthew Lawrence are said to have been dating. Recently, People magazine posted a picture of Season 6's Shannon Elizabeth and Derek Hough kissing on a beach. There has been much speculation about this couple getting together soon, especially with Shannon's remark on a results show about how they would've kissed on the show if they had gotten the encore.
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
Top Shows:
The Amazing Race ·
American Idol ·
America's Got Talent ·
America's Next Top Model ·
The Apprentice ·
The Bachelor ·
Beauty and the Geek ·
Big Brother ·
The Biggest Loser ·
The Contender ·
Dancing with the Stars ·
Extreme Makeover ·
Hell's Kitchen ·
The Hills ·
Last Comic Standing ·
Nashville Star ·
Project Runway ·
The Real World ·
So You Think You Can Dance ·
Survivor ·
Top Chef
American Idol seasons: American Idol 1 · American Idol 2 · American Idol 3 · American Idol 4 · American Idol 5 · American Idol 6 The Bachelor seasons: Bachelor 1 · Bachelor 2 · Bachelor 3 · Bachelor 4 · Bachelor 5 · Bachelor 6 · Bachelor 7 · Bachelor 8 · Bachelor 9 · Bachelor 10 Top Model seasons: Top Model 1 · Top Model 2 · Top Model 3 · Top Model 4 · Top Model 5 · Top Model 6 · Top Model 7 · Top Model 8 · Top Model 9 |
|
|
All logos and trademarks presented are property of their respective owner. This website has been solely developed and presented by Reality TV World, and is in no way authorized or connected with any network, station affiliate, or broadcasting sponsor.
All site content is © 2000-2007 Reality TV World and may not be republished or reproduced without Reality TV World's expressed written permission.
|