Posts with tag dancingwiththestars
Posted Jun 25th 2008 7:05PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Programming, OpEd, Music and Variety, Casting, Reality-Free
Jerry Springer and Mel B will host the 2008 Miss Universe Pageant live from Vietnam. Both Springer and the former "Scary Spice" are excited about the pageant. Mel B, former contestant on
Dancing with the Stars, exclaims, "I'm thrilled to be a co-host of the
Miss Universe Pageant. I believe the diversity and dedication that the pageant brings inspires and empowers young women across the globe." Springer, host of the hit summer show
America's Got Talent, is also happy to take on the hosting duties. He says, ""This is obviously a great honor and getting to work alongside Mel B makes it even better."
The competition will feature contestants from eighty countries. Each pageant hopeful will be judged on three categories:
swimsuit (the eye-candy category),
evening gown (the shameless endorsement category) , and
interview (the "We swear, we didn't just want to see them in swimsuits." category). Last year's winner Riyo Mori of Japan will be on hand to crown this year's Miss Universe.
The
Miss Universe Pageant will air on July 13th at 9:00 p.m. ET on NBC (and simulcast on Telemundo).
Posted Jun 6th 2008 9:03AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Celebrities, Dancing With The Stars
There's no doubt a run on
Dancing with the Stars is a boost to careers. Just consider Marie Osmond; was anybody knocking on her door for work before she fainted in between the waltzes and sambas? Well, according to
Cybill Shepherd, the producers of Dancing with the Stars want her to take part in the competition. Whether they want her or she's saying they want her to get some press, Cybill goes on to say that she could consider being a contestant on the uber-popular reality show, but only if she can find the time to devote to rehearsing.
Cybill has been busy acting of late.
She's going to appear on PSYCH in July when the show comes back with new episodes, playing Shawn's mother. There's also a feature called
Barry Munday. Seemingly, she could make room in her work schedule for
Dancing, and she claims she's really good at it and has fielded offers from them, "I love ballroom dancing. I've been offered
Dancing with the Stars and I'd love to do it. I'm sure I could do it. It's just a really hard training period and I just haven't had time to devote to that."
Continue reading Cybill Shepherd contemplates Dancing with the Stars
Posted May 27th 2008 10:46AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Daytime, Celebrities, Talk Show, Awards, Emmys, Reality-Free
Well, the
Daytime Emmy nominations were not exactly soul-stirring -- lots of repeat nominees, the same old, same old -- so the producers of the Emmy broadcast are trying to inject something new: that means new hosts. Call them the newest odd couple.
Cameron Mathison will team up with Sherri Shepherd to co-host the ABC broadcast of the 35th Annunal Daytime Emmy Awards on June 20. Not coincidentally, Cameron and Sherri are ABC stars. He's Ryan Lavery on
All My Children (and a former contestant on Dancing with the Stars); she's one of the five talkers on
The View. And if you think they didn't ask Whoopi Goldberg first, you don't know TV.
Continue reading Daytime Emmys hosts announced
Posted May 21st 2008 1:00AM by Brett Love
Filed under: OpEd, Celebrities, Dancing With The Stars, Episode Reviews, Episode Recaps
(S06E20) Episode 20. The big show. We've followed these three couples for two and a half months and it's finally time to crown a champion and put season six in the books. As Tom called them out, we have the Olympic gold medalist, the one-armed hero, and the grid-iron god. You could make a case for any of them taking home the mirror ball, and the title of season six champion. But first, there was one more round of dances to get to. We'll have that, the winner, and so much more, after the jump.
Continue reading Dancing With The Stars: Week 10 results (season finale)
Posted May 20th 2008 7:01AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Interviews, Dancing With The Stars
With the finals upon us, we call in our favorite ballroom pro for one last chat about the goings on down at the DWTS studio. This week Jonathan gives us his thoughts on the new cha cha faceoff, as well as the freestyle performances from the remaining couples.
He also offers up his pick to take home the big mirror ball. Getting to some viewer questions we talk about the music, the judges comments, and get an update on those future plans he hinted at earlier in the season. All that, and more, after the jump.
Continue reading Jonathan Roberts on Dancing With The Stars: Week 10
Posted May 19th 2008 11:05PM by Brett Love
Filed under: Celebrities, Dancing With The Stars, Episode Reviews
(S06E19) After two and a half months, it all comes down to this. As Tom put it, the end is near and the trophy is within reach. Like we have seen in the past, finals week brings with it the big freestyle numbers. There was a new twist this year though, the Cha Cha Faceoff. The couples were tasked with sharing a cha cha number, each of them providing a one minute segment. It all came together to make for a great night of dancing. Read on past the jump for the scores, and a look at each of the performances.
Continue reading Dancing With The Stars: Week 10, The Finals
Posted May 16th 2008 6:07PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Programming, OpEd, Celebrities, Casting
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).
Continue reading Joey Lawrence is hosting a new dance show for TLC
Posted May 14th 2008 12:11AM by Erin Martell
Filed under: OpEd, Celebrities, Dancing With The Stars, Episode Reviews, Episode Recaps
(S06E18) Since the bottom two couples weren't revealed last week, it was difficult to predict who would make it to the final round. I never would have imagined that Mario and Shannon would be absent from the final four. Nevertheless, it was time to send one last couple home.
We had to wait until the last minutes of the results show learn the celebrities' fates, but we had plenty of entertainment to hold us over. The Junior Champions finalists took over the dance floor, and Omarion performed in a high-energy tribute to the
Thriller album.
Continue reading Dancing With The Stars: Week 9 results
Posted May 13th 2008 12:44AM by Erin Martell
Filed under: Celebrities, Dancing With The Stars, Episode Reviews
(S06E17) We've reached the semi-finals, and I'm amazed that Marissa is still in the competition. I expected Mario to make it to the final round, but the fan votes are hard to predict. Tonight the final four couples drew their two dances at random. The lift ban was reinstated, which limited the contestants' options as well. As usual, they would perform one Ballroom routine and one Latin routine.
Ballroom RoundAfter congratulating the remaining couples, Len warned them that "good enough" simply wouldn't cut it. They were looking for greatness and expected the dancers to up their game significantly.
Continue reading Dancing With The Stars: Week 9
Posted May 12th 2008 1:04PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Interviews, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Penn Jillette has always been outspoken. He and his silent partner in magic, Teller, have more than three decades showing audiences the secrets behind their most spectacular tricks. And on
Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, which is about to enter its sixth season on Showtime, the pair debunk commonly-held beliefs about everything from the Bible and people who claim to speak to the dead to gun control and what the 9/11 conspiracy movement.
But those two platforms aren't enough for Penn. Up until recently, he hosted a syndicated talk radio show, which he gave up in part to concentrate on his stint on
Dancing with the Stars this season. But he hasn't stayed silent; in January, Jillette started posting a series of short videos called
Penn Says, which can be seen on the C Spot portion of Crackle, a Sony Entertainment website that has a number of exclusive video series. In these shorts, Penn turns on the camera and speaks extemporaneously about a topic that comes to mind, from Thomas Jefferson to the shelf life of calling Hillary Clinton a "bitch."
I spoke to Penn about
Penn Says, the Hillary joke,
Bullshit! and what he got out of being on
Dancing with the Stars. The interview is after the jump.
Continue reading Penn Jillette: The TV Squad Interview - VIDEO
Posted May 7th 2008 1:02PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Cable/Satellite, Game Show, Dancing With The Stars, Casting
He's an actor, a pin-up hunk, he's tried
Dancing With the Stars, and now he'll see what it's like to be a Jim Lange or Wink Martindale. Cameron Mathison has been tapped to host TLC's new game show
Your Place or Mine? Looking at those eyes, I'd let him redecorate my abode!
"I'm thrilled to be a part of TLC's first game show, and extremely excited about the fun concept," said Mathison. "I think both men and women, of all ages, are really going to enjoy the show because there's a little something in it for everyone." Yeah, TLC is pitching this as a family show. Hmm...we'll see. If it can capture the
Trading Spaces vibe, they may be on the right track.
Continue reading Cameron Mathison dances into game show role
Posted May 7th 2008 12:01AM by Brett Love
Filed under: OpEd, Celebrities, Dancing With The Stars, Episode Reviews
(S06E16) It was a big night down at DWTS HQ. Not only would the field be set for the big semi-final showdown next week, it was also the show's 100th episode. That milestone meant that many of our favorites from seasons gone by were making their return to the ballroom. In addition, ABC recognized that nothing else they were going to put on tonight was going to measure up to DWTS numbers, so they kicked the whole thing off with a clip-show counting down the judge's ten favorite performances from the first five seasons. That list, and the rest of the results show goings on, after the jump.
Continue reading Dancing With The Stars: Week 8 results
Posted May 6th 2008 1:38AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Interviews, Dancing With The Stars
Week 8 brings us another chat with our favorite pro. This week Jonathan weighs in with his thoughts on all of the couple's performances and picks his favorite dance of the night. It was a better week for the judges, but there is still one dance that he didn't agree with them about...at all.
Along the way he talks about the difficulties the pros face choreographing the performances as they move further into the competition. We also get to some reader questions. Read on to hear about his trip to the White House, the most, and least, memorable moments from his years on the show, and a sneak peek at just what they have planned for Tuesday's big results show.
Continue reading Jonathan Roberts on Dancing With The Stars: Week 8
Posted May 5th 2008 11:22PM by Brett Love
Filed under: OpEd, Celebrities, Dancing With The Stars, Episode Reviews
(S06E15) Last week things were turned upside down as Jason took the points lead from Kristi and Shannon left in a surprising elimination. No time to worry about that for our couples though, as week eight brings with it two more dances. If that wasn't enough, the lift ban is out the window. Each couple is allowed to do a lift in each of their performances, as long as it is performed in the character of the routine, whatever that means. Now they must weigh the prospects of it all going terribly wrong against the possible gain to be had in points and votes. Would Kristi reclaim the top spot? Or would there be a new leader? All that, and a rundown of all the week eight performances, after the jump.
Continue reading Dancing With The Stars: Week 8
Posted May 5th 2008 1:04PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Dancing With The Stars, Gossip Girl
The new
Beverly Hills 90210 is busy casting and coming together, but it doesn't seem like any of the stars from the original Fox hit will be involved. Don't look for Brandon Walsh among the characters, at least not with the man who created him.
Jason Priestley admits that nobody from the new 90210 has even contacted him about an appearance. In a brief interview with momlogic.com, Jason said, "I'm certainly open to it. I loved working on that show. I loved everything I did on that show. I had so many jobs on that show, I loved it so."
On the other hand,
Priestley makes it abundantly clear that he has no interest in following in the dancing footsteps of two of his 90210 castmates, Ian Ziering and Jennie Garth, by joining
Dancing With the Stars. He just can't dance and he makes no bones about his inability to do a Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly turn. His hobby is on the race track, not the dance floor.
Continue reading Jason Priestley says no to dancing, maybe to 90210
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