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TLC has a new competition series called Master of Dance (worst title ever). The show will test dancers' skills by changing the song mid-performance to measure the breadth of their repertoire and the level of their creativity. This sounds a little too much like Freezedance but for prize money. The grand prise is $50,000 to be exact.

Joey Lawrence will host and there will be three judges: Lucinda Dickey (Solid Gold, Breakin'), Tyce Diorio (choreographer on So You Think You Can Dance), and Loni Love (comedienne voted one of Comedy Central's Top 20 Comics to Watch in 2008).

If you haven't entered our latest giveaways yet, here's a reminder that one is ending today. You've got until Midnight Eastern tonight to enter the So You Think You Can Dance giveaway for a trip for two to LA!

Just head on over to the post link above, read through the rules and make the applicable comment there (not here!) We'll notify the winner by next week.

Good luck!

If you haven't entered our latest giveaways yet, here's a reminder that one is ending today. You've got until 5PM Eastern today to enter the Young Indiana Jones giveaway, and then until next Wednesday to enter the So You Think You Can Dance giveaway for a trip for two to LA!

Just head on over to the posts links above, read through the rules and make the applicable comment there (not here!) We'll notify the winners next week.

Good luck!

Fans of So You Think You Can Dance are going to really love this one.

In celebration of the new season of the show, which premieres on FOX on May 22nd, we're working with promoters to offer our readers a round-trip to Los Angeles, California to attend the So You Think You Can Dance dance-off. The trip includes airfare for two, hotel, ground transportation to/from the airport and spending money.

To enter, leave a comment below before 11:59PM Eastern, Wednesday, May 7 simply telling us why you'd like to take a trip out to see the dance-off. As always, we'll randomly choose one winner amongst the eligible entries. Some other details after the jump.

Is David Cook dating Lacey Schwimmer? OK! magazine is reporting that the American Idol front-runner (he's one of 'em) has hooked up with the So You Think You Can Dance favorite during the taping of last week's "Idol Gives Back" special. Lacey came in fourth this past summer on SYTYCD, and David is on a pretty good track to at least match that achievement. The article has all kinds of quotes from all kinds of anonymous sources, so that means it has to be legit, right?

The fact that David kind of sucked last week might lead one to think that a hot, new fling may have temporarily distracted him from the business at hand. Things got back on track this week, though. The article also states that Lacey is shy about going public with their burgeoning relationship, so she's been sitting behind the judges rather than with "David's Friends and Family." Has anyone seen her there? If so, can you tell her that she was awesome on SYTYCD for me? Then ask about her and Cook, but make sure you specify you're talking about David. Otherwise ... awkward!

I'm going to be honest with you because you all have been honest with me. Sometimes a bit too honest. Sometimes honest to the point of being creepy and making me change my phone number. But, honest nonetheless.

Anyway, I may be a bit jaded in my opinions of the summer schedule that FOX released last week. I mean, they take two of the most popular dramas on their schedule -- Bones and House -- and just bounce them around the schedule so much just so they can accommodate five thousand hours of American Idol. Frankly, it pisses me off a bit.

That's why I need your help to determine if I am way off in thinking that their summer programming schedule is a heaping pile of poo. Take a look at the schedule after the jump and then we'll talk.

You know, I could say something smarmy about auditions for FOX's So You Think You Can Dance and how it is part of the ever-growing list of reality shows that are gracing the networks. But, since so many people take it seriously, and reality television will be status quo for the time being, and the public will want to be thoroughly entertained by its reality television, it's probably not a laughing matter anymore.

So, to get all serious on your tushies, venues for the previously announced Dance auditions have finally been released and can be found at the show's website. The casting call begins on January 17th at the McFarlin Memorial Auditorium in Dallas, Texas and end on March 20th at The Milwaukee Theatre in, you guessed it, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Registration at each venue will begin at 8:00 AM.

So You Think You Can Dance -- that other dance show -- is looking for the America's next Favorite Dancer. Starting in January, producers will stop in six cities to find dancers for the fourth season of the show.

The search will begin on January 17th in Dallas, Texas. They will then travel to Charleston, South Carolina (Jan. 31st), Washington, D.C. (Feb. 21st), Los Angeles, California (March 6th) and Milwaukee, Wisconsin (March 20th). The search will end on April 3rd in Salt Lake City, Utah. Audition venues in these cities have not been announced.

Casting for Dance is open to persons between the ages of 18 and 30 at the time of audition. Auditioners need to have proof of either U.S. citizenship, permanent U.S. residency., or current employment visa allowing them to work in the U.S. without restrictions. More information can be found at the So You Think You Can Dance website.

So you think you can dance on "America's Best Dance Crew?" American Idol judge Randy Jackson and MTV certainly hope so. Or at least that you'll watch other dance crews try to earn that title. Variety tells us that Randy Jackson Presents America's Best Dance Crew, or RJPABDC for short, comes to us in the first quarter of next year, the same time FOX drops American Idol. No word on whether Jackson will appear on the show.

The show originated at NBC, but when they considered it might actually bring in viewers, they passed it up to develop Law & Order: Central High: "In the public education system, the students are represented by two separate, yet equally important, groups: the hall monitors who catch rules violators and the principals who discipline the offenders. These are their stories."

Is it ever too early to talk about American Idol? The next season won't start airing until January, but the rounds of auditions have already swept the country. And, it seems there will be some changes to the format of the show. In an interview with The New York Post, executive producer Nigel Lythgoe said things are being shaken up a bit this season.

In the upcoming season, if a contestant plays a musical instrument, they will be allowed to show off their talents in addition to singing. That's a big change from the past.

(S03E23) Season three went out with a bang. Cat said in the opening that the show was a full two hours, with no padding. She wasn't kidding. If we count the two musical guests, and the goofy animated Cat/Nigel dance number, there were 18 performances. 18!

There were a few video montages looking back over the season, but with the exception of the one that featured Sex (we really didn't need to revisit that), all of them were pretty well done, and kept the show moving right along. There was just very little not to like about this show. Ok, there were a couple things, but we'll get to them, as well as the big winner, after the jump.

(S03E22) A quick look at the little weather widget on my desktop tells me that summer is coming to an end next week. If that seems soon to you, I'm guessing you don't live in the greater Seattle area. At any rate, it's fitting that our premature change of season coincides with the ending of the best of the summer reality shows.

As Cat said in her introduction, "This is it." We've been watching these kids for weeks now, and it all comes down to one last night, stuffed to the gills with dancing. The show did have its moments of stretching, but the interviews and the looks back at auditions really played well here. Judging everything, Nigel and Mary of course, and they were joined by Dan Karaty. My first snarky thought was that they brought Dan in to judge to keep him from choreographing a number. But that was mean of me, and I have to say, I thought he did a good job in his judge's seat tonight. After the jump, a rundown of all the performances.

(S03E21) I'm still scratching my head over the fact that 'pre-season' football meant we had to wait through the weekend to find out who the top four dancers are, but the results are finally in. Of course, with an hour to fill they couldn't get to the results right away.

The show kicked off with another crazy number, to the tune of "2:19" by Tom Waits. It was very inventive and practically screamed "Wade Robson choreographed me!" Production meant that the dancers needed a break for wardrobe and makeup after that, so there was a guest performance. Titus Fotso and the African Dance Ensemble came out to perform. I'm a fan of musical guests on the results show, but I'll take a dance exhibition over that every time, especially one as good as this. It was a great performance, and I would be all for giving Titus a slot as guest choreographer next season.

(S03E20) Holy smokes. Call me crazy if you don't agree, but I'm calling this the best episode of the season. There hasn't been a standout number one performance every week, but there has always been something that didn't quite work, or didn't quite measure up to the rest. I didn't find that here.

It would seem that the talk about the choreographers stepping things up wasn't just talk as all of them delivered great routines for the dancers to perform. The criticisms were few and far between this week, from me, and from the judges. That would be Nigel and Mary as usual, joined this week by Debbie Allen. After the jump, we'll get to all of the performances, and a rant about Fox scheduling.

(S03E17) We've turned a corner in the season three competition. The eliminations to go from ten dancers to eight represented the first choices made by the fans at home. Would they get it right? Or would this be another head scratching result like so many of those the judges brought about with their sometimes strange decisions? In the spirit of the results show, you'll have to wait to find out.

That gets us to the first point about the results show this week. It was certainly worth hanging around to find out who was going home. Given the dancers that are left, there was certainly some question as far as who that would be. That said, as an episode, this was far and away the worst of the season. They've stretched to fill time before, but this was the first time that I felt like they were just jerking the audience around. It was 30 minutes of show stuffed in a one hour bag. But there were results to be had, and I'll have those after the jump.