Posts with tag shane sparks
Posted Aug 22nd 2008 8:23AM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Pickups and Renewals, Episode Reviews
(S02E11 ... or is that 12?) The live auditions were considered a sort of special, so does it count as episode one? This finale featured the return of all the crews from throughout the season and the results of which of the final two crews would be crowned. I'll just come right off the top and say that I was pretty disappointed to see Fanny Pak taken down before the finale. Of all the crews this season, they were the ones who got me the most excited.
The problem is I'm not sure which of the top two finalists I would have eliminated to make room for them. I just don't think either of them was stronger overall than Fanny Pak. Even the judges didn't seem pleased going into the finale with the remaining two crews. And unfortunately, throughout last week's performance episode, it was one disappointment after another until the final two dances. I appreciate the differences in these crews, but I don't think it was as exciting a finale as we could have had.
Continue reading America's Best Dance Crew: Finale
Posted Aug 4th 2008 2:23AM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: OpEd, Pickups and Renewals, So You Think You Can Dance
Looks like next summer we are getting
another season of So You Think You Can Dance. The dance competition will continue to rule the summer with its fifth season next year.
This shouldn't come as a big surprise to anyone -- whether you watch the show or not. It's basically the
American Idol of the summertime, the off-season Lythgoe/Fuller powerhouse. The ratings are stellar. Both Wednesday and Thursday telecasts rank number one in their respective time periods in all key demographics. Furthermore, the show has been Emmy nominated, earning four nods this year for choreography by Wade Robson, Shane Sparks, and Mandy Moore.
Continue reading FOX orders season five of So You Think You Can Dance
Posted Jul 4th 2008 3:09PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Industry, OpEd, Video, Celebrities, So You Think You Can Dance
I know fans of
So You Think You Can Dance have noticed that one of the best choreographers from show is absent this season. We know why
Shane Sparks isn't on the program this summer, but what about Wade Robson? Many fans of the show agree that he has put together some of fiercest couple routines and group performances that
So You Think You Can Dance has ever seen.
Unfortunately, I don't know where Wade Robson is. Believe me, if I find out if he's coming back to Fox's hit show, you TV Squad readers will be the first to know. I thought in the meantime we could enjoy some of his other work, including his performance on
Star Search as a little boy. It's adorable.
Continue reading Wade Robson on Star Search - VIDEOS
Posted Jun 28th 2008 11:26AM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, OpEd, Interviews, Celebrities, So You Think You Can Dance
On Tuesday I headed over to the Warner Bros. studios in Burbank, CA for a taping of
America's Best Dance Crew. I sat back in the V.I.P. room while the taping was going on. The show, which tapes at Stage 23, has a gigantic set this season (probably due to the first season's enormous and unexpected success). The taping is so boring though. While I was watching, they spent about twenty minutes taping the first thirty seconds where Mario Lopez starts things off. Each time they tweaked something he said, he got a little more annoyed. The audience never seemed to get tired of doing their job, applauding like maniacs.
But before anything started I got to interview judge Shane Sparks. Find out more about what
Sparks had to say about his involvement with
America's Best Dance Crew, his absence on this season's
So You Think You Can Dance, Wade Robson, and the JabbaWockeeZ after the jump.
Continue reading Shane Sparks: The TV Squad Interview
Posted Jun 20th 2008 11:04AM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: OpEd, American Idol, Celebrities, Judges, So You Think You Can Dance
The Daily News has put together
an article comparing the judges from
American Idol and
So You Think You Can Dance which confirms what I've been feeling all along:
So You Think You Can Dance is the superior competition show.
Take a look at the comparisons after the jump.
Continue reading American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance judges: How do they compare?
Posted Jun 20th 2008 9:41AM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, So You Think You Can Dance
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S04E09) Mia cried. Mary kept relatively quiet (Thank God!). Nigel lectured. Cat wore a green dress. And we eliminated another two dancers last night on
So You Think You Can Dance. Off we go!
Opening Performance"Elevator" by Flo Rida featuring Timbaland (choreographer: Shane Sparks)
What a great hip-hop performance! And I'm so glad that Shane Sparks is lending his expertise to the show again. I was worried he'd be totally wrapped up in America's Best Dance Crew this summer. The girls part on the floor was great but a few of them messed up the arm movements. The best part of the piece was Comfort with the three guys. It was near perfect. My eyes never left Comfort. I wasn't impressed with her krumping on Wednesday but this opener proved to me why she's there.
Continue reading So You Think You Can Dance: Top 16 Revealed
Posted Aug 16th 2007 4:00AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Episode Reviews
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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.
Continue reading So You Think You Can Dance: The Final Four
Posted Aug 2nd 2007 4:15AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Episode Reviews
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S03E18) Holy smokes. Episode 18 already? Our summer, and the
SYTYCD competition, is flying by. As Cat pointed out in the intro, we're only two weeks away from crowning the season three champ. The everybody dances the same solo format from last week was out the window, which I think was for the best. You can have too much of a good thing. There was also a welcome absence of political commentary, as I think that really took away from what the show is about last week. That doesn't mean that there wasn't controversy though, but we'll get to that later. More about all of the performances, after the jump.
Continue reading So You Think You Can Dance: Week 7
Posted Jul 26th 2007 4:32AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Episode Reviews
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S03E16) Cat kicked off the show reminding us that the decision is now in the hands of the viewers. That will put an end to the weekly musings about the judges curious elimination decisions. However, I don't think there will be any shortage of controversy with the viewers in charge. If the week six performance show is any indication, you could make a case for anyone to stay, so somebody is going to be disappointed with tomorrow's results. That's getting the cart ahead of the course though, there is a whole performance show to deal with.
Viewer voting isn't the only change this week. There are new partnerships to take a look at, and along with those five partner dances all ten of the contestants danced the same Wade Robson choreographed solo. Witnessing all of this were, of course, Nigel and Mary. Mia Michaels was along for the ride as guest judge. It all made for a pretty impressive night of competition. We'll try and wrap it all up in a nice neat bow after the jump.
Continue reading So You Think You Can Dance: Week 6
Posted Jul 20th 2007 6:00AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Episode Reviews
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S03E15) It seems like the summer is just flying by. Here we are, already down to the top ten. The competition has been very tough up to this point. Still, considering the talent of the contestants left, and adding in the fact that all of the partnerships are out the window, it's only going to get tougher.
Jean-Marc Genereaux got the nod to choreograph the big opening number this week, to the tune of "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy." It was my favorite of the opening numbers so far. Lots of energy, and the period costumes were great. It's pretty impressive that, after all of the work that goes in to the weekly routine, the group is still able to come together and deliver these big numbers each week. As fun as they are though, we do tune in for the results. All the details are after the jump.
Continue reading So You Think You Can Dance: Week 5 Results
Posted Jul 19th 2007 5:00AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Episode Reviews
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S03E14)This week we will lose two more dancers and that will bring us to the top ten. It's not winning, but making the top ten is a bit of a feather in the cap, and it also means that you get to go on the tour. So there is a lot on the line for the dancers. In addition, beginning next week the teams will be paired up randomly each week.
Wade Robson is the guest judge this week, joining Nigel and Mary. Wade talked about what he was looking for in the dance. He thinks that given the audience for the show, the dancers have a responsibility to tell a human story. I didn't actually follow all of that, but he's Wade Robson. I give him a lot of leeway on things like that. Anyway, with the pressure as high as it has been so far this season, on with the dances after the jump.
Continue reading So You Think You Can Dance: Week 5
Posted Jul 13th 2007 4:00AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Episode Reviews
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S03E13) Cat opened up the show looking absolutely lovely with her hair up and her blue dress. She said that after last night's performances this might be the hardest elimination yet. I didn't really think it was that tough a decision, but considering that my picks for elimination didn't pan out, maybe it was more difficult than I thought.
That led right into the big group performance, choreographed by Adam Shankman, which I'll call a modern take on the sock hop. It had a very
Happy Days feel to it, if Ralph Malph had occasionally paused to do a little break dancing before telling someone to sit on it. It was a very fun performance all around.
Continue reading So You Think You Can Dance: Week 4 Results
Posted Jul 12th 2007 4:18AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Episode Reviews
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S03E12) After a week off for the 4th of July holiday, Nigel, Mary, and Cat are back with the top 14. Along for the ride is guest judge Adam Shankman. He is the director and choreographer of the upcoming Hairspray. The show started off by sending a small percentage of the audience into epileptic seizures as they got a look at Cat's dress, and then moved on to Nigel defending the decision to cut Jessi.
Really, I think they should have just let it go. He's not going to change any minds no matter how well thought out he thinks his explanation was. All this served to do was remind the people that didn't agree with the decision that the last results show was, as they saw it, a travesty. It's not changing, so to be fair to the other dancers, get on with it. As we should do now. Rundowns of all the performances after the jump.
Continue reading So You Think You Can Dance: Week 4
Posted Jun 14th 2007 7:00AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Episode Reviews
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S03E06) Finally, the waiting is over. There are no more interruptions by bad dancers or mothers that want to yell at Nigel. Now we get to the real competition. And the really interesting part of that competition comes as we get to see what happens when the luck of the draw forces dancers out of their comfort zone. Being able to spin on your head is great, but not much use if you have to waltz. Much like the years of classical ballet don't mean quite as much when you land the hip-hop number. It's what makes the show so fun.
Dan Karatay joined Nigel and Mary at the judges table this week. They had a lot to get to as the final twenty paired off to do ten different numbers. There were some surprising moments, some great performances, and a couple that could have been better. More on each of the couples after the jump.
Continue reading So You Think You Can Dance: Week 1
Posted Jun 7th 2007 7:00AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Episode Reviews
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S01E04) After the three audition episodes that seemed to plod along, spending so much time on interviews and back stories, this episode just felt odd. It was as if they stuffed two hours of show in a one hour bag. Dancers just appeared on screen with no names or introduction, whether we had seen them before or not.
It was also hard to get any idea about the judges decisions. For so many of the contestants we were only shown small fractions of their performance. Between this and the 'new format every week!'
On The Lot debacle, I'm left wondering if everyone in the Fox reality department has just closed up shop for the summer. It's all very strange. But there were auditions, so after the jump a look at a few of the stories that stood out in Vegas.
Continue reading So You Think You Can Dance: Vegas
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