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Posted Nov 2nd 2006 10:20AM by Brett Love
Filed under: ABC, Music and Variety, Dancing With The Stars
(S03E16) I'm amused by the hoops they have to jump through to stretch the results out to an hour. Seven minutes of rehashing last night to kick off the show. I realize that filling the 58 minutes of the hour that aren't the results is a chore each week. But aren't we pretty safe assuming that the vast majority of the people watching the results show also tuned in for the competition?
Monique and Louis were awarded the encore for their cha cha cha. Really, any of the couples could have been given the encore this week. They all danced very well. When they chose Monique and Louis I took that as confirmation that they were leaving and the producers wanted to give her the best possible send off.
Continue reading Dancing with the Stars: Week 8 results
Posted Nov 1st 2006 6:35AM by Brett Love
Filed under: ABC, Music and Variety, Dancing With The Stars
(S03E15) Final Four! Not just final four, but Halloween final four. Fog machines, fake spiders, and bad acting from Samantha. I think you could make a case that maybe Willa Ford deserved to be in this group, but with or without her, it is a pretty impressive bunch of dancers. From a dancing perspective, as well as a ratings one, this has been a very successful season. And things only pick up from here.
I couldn't do screencaps this week, and ABC didn't have any images up yet, so instead we have a picture of DWTS judge Carrie Ann Inaba as Fook Yu in
Goldmember. She's on the left. And just for crazy TV trivia buffs, Fook Mi was played by Diane Mizota, who you may remember as the host of G4's
Filter, or as Katy on
Undressed. Anyway, two dances for everyone tonight, so on with the show.
Continue reading Dancing with the Stars: Week 8
Posted Oct 26th 2006 7:18AM by Brett Love
Filed under: ABC, Music and Variety, Dancing With The Stars
(S03E14) And we're back for the big two week elimination show. It's a big week as it gets us down to the final four. After this, the competition gets serious. Anyone that makes it past tonight has a legitimate shot to win the whole thing. Emmitt & Cheryl kick things off after the judges pick them for the encore this week. That's a good choice. Emmitt has surprised me more than anyone else this season. He just keeps getting better.
Martina McBride takes the stage next to sing "This One's For The Girls." I wasn' t crazy about the dress. It looked like something from the
Star Trek Maternity line. Wardrobe snafu aside, that's a good song. The musical guests this season have been really good. Being a top five show has it's perks.
Continue reading Dancing with the Stars: Week 7 Results
Posted Oct 25th 2006 6:56AM by Brett Love
Filed under: ABC, Music and Variety, Dancing With The Stars
(S03E13) After no eliminations last week, everyone returns to dance again. The scores and votes from tonight will be added to those of last week for the elimination show tomorrow. And this week, to make it even tougher, everyone will perform twice. Things are getting serious on
Dancing with the Stars. Well, except for Jerry.
And for those of you playing along at home, the real final result of Saragate? The Nielsen top 20 for last week finds DWTS at #2 and #4. Wow. To put that in perspective,
Survivor was #20.
Continue reading Dancing with the Stars: Week 7
Posted Oct 19th 2006 7:18AM by Brett Love
Filed under: ABC, OpEd, Music and Variety, Dancing With The Stars
(S03E11) Really, the dragging out of the decision for what to do about Sara leaving is just stupid. The show is getting great ratings already. It doesn't need to jerk viewers around to get them to keep watching. It's a cheap gimmick. Teasing it before going to every commercial break, and pushing it to the last three minutes smacked of local news, and that's not a compliment.
The judges chose Mario & Karina for the encore. That was a good choice. They were clearly the best this week. And they do another great performance, with the exception of a mistake at the end when they get their hands all mixed up during their spins. Lionel Richie came out and performed
All Night Long while Maksim, Tony, Edyta, and Karina did the Samba. Really cool performance. Lionel still sounds great, and that was an excellent song choice.
Continue reading Dancing with the Stars: Week 6 Results
Posted Oct 12th 2006 7:11AM by Brett Love
Filed under: ABC, Music and Variety, Dancing With The Stars
(S03E10) And here we are for another week of results. After a recap of performance night, the judges choose Jerry & Kym for the encore. bhivxcvvyvbndij <-- That's what hitting myself in the head with the keyboard looks like in text. Am I just not getting the attraction to Jerry?
Things take a turn for the better as Rod Stewart performs Hot Legs while Edyta and Kym dance. This was really good. Rod's still got it. A bit of a departure from what we are used to seeing Edyta and Kym doing, but still fun. They both looked great and did a nice job.
Continue reading Dancing With the Stars: Week 5 Results show
Posted Oct 11th 2006 7:17AM by Brett Love
Filed under: ABC, OpEd, Music and Variety, Dancing With The Stars
(S03E09) And we're back for week 5 of Voting With the Entertaining Stars. We've got 90 minutes of airtime to get out the numbers for voting, so why don't we kill the time by having our stars dance. Don't worry, the dancing doesn't have to factor into the voting at all. Really. Yes, I'm growing a little cynical with the scoring system for the show. I think it hurts what is otherwise a good show. And now the judges are just adding to that problem, but more on that later.
This week the stars are choosing between the samba and the rumba. With a couple notable exceptions, there has been some great improvement among the celebrities. It made for a pretty impressive show overall. My apologies for the lack of screencaps this week, my PVR ate the file. That said, on with the show.
Continue reading Dancing with the Stars: Week 5
Posted Oct 4th 2006 7:06AM by Brett Love
Filed under: ABC, Music and Variety, Dancing With The Stars
(S03E07) Well, there was no chance I would miss this week's show. Dancingwithsara.com sent me not one, but two reminders to watch. With that in mind, I'm guessing that the SaraARMY will be on the phones in force again. After the crazy, rule-busting, week 3 and the shake-ups it entailed, I was curious to see how things would go down.
This week the dances are the Waltz and the Pasa Doble. That is an interesting combination because it forces the dancers to choose one of two very different directions. A couple of those choices surprised me. Nothing tragic came of it, but I guess we won't know for sure until the results show tomorrow. With that in mind, on with the show.
Continue reading Dancing with the Stars: Week 4
Posted Sep 13th 2006 10:44AM by Brett Love
Filed under: ABC, Music and Variety, Celebrities, Dancing With The Stars
(S02E01) It's hard to make a hit show, and it's hard to predict what show will be a hit. When I first heard the idea for
Dancing with the Stars before the first season I thought, 'Why would anyone watch that?' Yet, here we are starting the third season and ABC has a bona fide hit on their hands. And I'm watching it. Go figure.
Tom Bergeron and Samantha Harris return as hosts. And if I can go off-topic for just a minute, I have to mention
Breakfast Time. I've been a Bergeron fan since he hosted the best morning show that ever was. When Tom goes into the Hall of Fame he should be wearing his
Breakfast Time cap. That said, they have eleven new stars ready to dance it up. Celebrity men danced the Cha Cha Cha while the women did the Fox Trot. Here are the couples and their results.
Continue reading Dancing with the Stars: Week 1 (season premiere)
Posted Sep 12th 2006 3:49PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: ABC, Music and Variety, Celebrities
Because people will bet on anything, the odds for ABC's
Dancing with the Stars favor Mario Lopez for the win. Right now he's a 3-1 favorite, according to
PinnacleSports.com. All he has going for him is, a long damn time ago, Lopez once danced and played drums on Disney's
Kids Incorporated (
two references in one week??). Just looking at
the photos of the contestants, Lopez actually looks like he belongs while the others look awkward (especially
Tucker Carlson).
The second and third favored are
High School Musical star Monique Coleman with 9-2 and bald Joey Lawrence with 6-1 odds. Least likely to win, according to the odds, is Jerry Springer, followed by Shanna Moakler, Willa Ford and Sara Evans.
Dancing with the Stars debuts tonight at 8 pm.
Posted Aug 14th 2006 11:20AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, ABC, Industry, Programming, OpEd, Celebrities
The big news on
Good Morning America this morning wasn't about the UK terror plot or the cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah. The big news was... drumroll please...
the announcement of the new cast of
Dancing with the Stars!
Thaaat's right, kiddies... the new group of has-beens, never-wases and out-of-place sports legends is now set to strut their stuff on the dance floor this fall, and this group is a doozy. We already knew that MSNBC's
Tucker Carlson is participating, and there had been
rumors that soon-to-be Hall of Fame running back Emmit Smith was going to be there, so those two aren't a big surprise. But we also get to see Jerry Springer, Joey ("Whoa!") Lawrence, Vivica A. Fox, Harry Hamlin (probably glomming on wife Lisa Rinna's success last year), Willa Ford, Monique Coleman of
High School Musical, Sara Evans, Mario Lopez, and model and
ex-Mrs. Barker Shanna Moakler (probably in the spot that was reserved for Beth Ostrosky).
Looks like it's going to be an interesting season. Maybe Emmit Smith will surprise everyone and win it all. Cowboy fans must be hiding their heads in their hats right now.
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