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Dancing with the Stars
File:Dancing logo usa.jpg
Created byBBC Entertainment
Presented byTom Bergeron
Samantha Harris
(2006-present)
Lisa Canning
(2005)
Drew Lachey
(2007, filled in for Samantha Harris)
JudgesLen Goodman
Carrie Ann Inaba
Bruno Tonioli
Country of origin United States
No. of seasons5
No. of episodes86
Production
Production locationsCBS Television City (Studio 46)
Los Angeles, California
Running time61-91 minutes (Live)
Original release
NetworkAmerican Broadcasting Company
ReleaseJune 1, 2005 –
Present

Dancing with the Stars is an Primetime Emmy Award-nominated reality show airing on ABC 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.

The show pairs a celebrity with a professional 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 ballroom 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.

The season five competition was hosted by Emmy Award-winning game show host and television personality, Tom Bergeron, and E! reporter Samantha Harris. For the first three weeks of the competition, season two 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 broadcast Season 4 on Sunday afternoons from Sunday 15th July 2007. On September 28, 2007, UKTV Gold began airing Season 5. [1]

Dances

The 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".

The List of Dances
Foxtrot
Cha-cha-cha
Quickstep
Jive
Tango
Paso Doble
Viennese Waltz
Mambo
Rumba
Samba
Waltz

Winners

Season Winners
Dancing with the Stars (US season 1) - Summer 2005   Kelly Monaco & Alec Mazo
Dancing with the Stars (US season 2) - Spring 2006   Drew Lachey & Cheryl Burke
Dancing with the Stars (US season 3) - Fall 2006   Emmitt Smith & Cheryl Burke
Dancing with the Stars (US season 4) - Spring 2007   Apolo Anton Ohno & Julianne Hough
Dancing with the Stars (US season 5) - Fall 2007   Helio Castroneves & Julianne Hough

U.S. television ratings

Seasonal rankings (based on average total viewers per episode) of Dancing With The Stars on American Broadcasting Company.

Note: Each U.S. network television season starts in late September and ends in late May, which coincides with the completion of Nielsen Ratings.

Number of Season Season Premiere Season Finale TV Season Timeslot Rank Viewers
(in millions)
Date Viewers
(in millions)
Date Viewers
(in millions)
1st June 1, 2005 13.48 July 6, 2005 22.36 2004-2005 Wednesday 9:00PM n/a 16.80
2nd January 5, 2006 17.46 Part 1: February 23, 2006 17.70 2005-2006 Thursday 8:00PM
(dance show)
#6 18.57
Part 2: February 26, 2006 27.23 Sunday 8:00PM
(results show)
#18 14.81
3rd September 12, 2006 20.06[2] Part 1: November 14, 2006 26.80 2006-2007 Tuesday 8:00PM
(dance show)
#3 20.73
Part 2: November 15, 2006 27.29 Wednesday 8:00PM
(results show)
#7 19.42
4th March 19, 2007 21.80[3] Part 1: May 21, 2007 20.19 2006-2007 Monday 8:00PM
(dance show)
#6 19.89
Part 2: May 22, 2007 22.96 Tuesday 9:00PM
(results show)
#9 18.22
5th September 24, 2007 21.19[4] Part 1: November 26, 2007 ? 2007-2008 Monday 8:00PM
(dance show)
September 25, 2007 18.34[5] Part 2: November 27, 2007 Tuesday 8:00PM
(results show)
? ?

The show's first season is not ranked because it aired in the summer of 2005. Assuming it would have the same viewing numbers from the summer, if it did air within the 2004-2005 official television season, it would have ranked #11 inplace of Two and a Half Men.[6]

10.9 million viewers tuned into the September 20, 2005 dance-off while just over 10.4 million watched the September 22, 2005 results show.

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 similarly high viewing numbers compared to 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.).[7]

Similarities Throughout the Seasons

  • Retired athletes: Holyfield in Season 1, Rice in Season 2, and Smith in Season 3.
  • Ex boy band members: McIntyre in Season 1, Lachey in Season 2, and Fatone in Season 4.
  • Models: Hunter in Season 1, Carerre in Season 2, Moakler in Season 3, Porizkova in Season 4, Finnessey in Season 4, Maran in Season 5, and Reed in Season 5. (Note: Maran and Reed were both members of Season 5, and eliminated first and second, respectively. The same is the case with Porizkova and Finnessey, respectively.)
  • Soap Stars: Monaco in Season 1, Rinna in Season 2, and Mathison in Season 5.
  • Older Men: O'Hurley in Season 1, Hamilton in Season 2, Springer in Season 3, Ratzenberger in Season 4, and Newton in Season 5.
  • Girl band members: Bryan in Season 5 and Brown in Season 5.
  • Sports members: Kiebler in Season 2, Ali in Season 4 and Castroneves in Season 5.
  • Disney Channel stars: Coleman in Season 3, Cyrus in Season 4, and Bryan in Season 5.

North American Tour

On 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:

Willa Ford and Maksim Chmerkovskiy were scheduled to join the tour, but Chmerkovskiy had to withdraw for personal reasons and Ford decided not to participate with another partner.

The 2nd tour took place with the following couples:

A 3rd tour is scheduled to take place from December 18th 2007 to February 10th 2008 with the following couples:

Drew Lachey will make special guest appearances throughout the tour.

Score Statistics

Perfect 30s

Judges have awarded perfect 30 out of 30 to couples on the following occasions:

Celebrity Professional Season Week Dance
Kelly Monaco Alec Mazo 1 6 Freestyle
John O'Hurley Charlotte Jorgensen 1 Dance-Off Waltz
Stacy Keibler Tony Dovolani 2 5 Samba
Drew Lachey Cheryl Burke 2 6 Tango
Stacy Keibler Tony Dovolani 2 6 Jive
Drew Lachey Cheryl Burke 2 8 Paso Doble
Freestyle
Stacy Keibler Tony Dovolani 2 8 Jive
Samba
Emmitt Smith Cheryl Burke 3 9 Cha-Cha-Cha
Joey Lawrence Edyta Sliwinska 3 9 Rumba
Mario Lopez Karina Smirnoff 3 9 Tango
Emmitt Smith Cheryl Burke 3 10 Samba
Mambo
Mario Lopez Karina Smirnoff 3 10 Paso Doble
Freestyle
Apolo Anton Ohno Julianne Hough 4 5 Samba
Laila Ali Maksim Chmerkovskiy 4 7 Samba
Joey Fatone Kym Johnson 4 7 Jive
Apolo Anton Ohno Julianne Hough 4 8 Paso Doble
Joey Fatone Kym Johnson 4 9 Jive
Joey Fatone Kym Johnson 4 9 Foxtrot
Laila Ali Maksim Chmerkovskiy 4 9 Quickstep
Laila Ali Maksim Chmerkovskiy 4 9 Cha-Cha-Cha
Ian Ziering Cheryl Burke 4 9 Jive
Apolo Anton Ohno Julianne Hough 4 9 Quickstep
Apolo Anton Ohno Julianne Hough 4 10 Freestyle
Joey Fatone Kym Johnson 4 10 Freestyle
Apolo Anton Ohno Julianne Hough 4 10 Paso Doble
Joey Fatone Kym Johnson 4 10 Tango
Laila Ali Maksim Chmerkovskiy 4 10 Mambo
Sabrina Bryan Mark Ballas 5 4 Paso Doble
Melanie Brown Maksim Chmerkovskiy 5 6 Rumba
Melanie Brown Maksim Chmerkovskiy 5 7 Paso Doble
Hélio Castroneves Julianne Hough 5 8 Quickstep
Melanie Brown Maksim Chmerkovskiy 5 9 Viennese Waltz
Melanie Brown Maksim Chmerkovskiy 5 9 Paso Doble
Hélio Castroneves Julianne Hough 5 9 Foxtrot
Hélio Castroneves Julianne Hough 5 9 Cha-Cha-Cha
Jennie Garth Derek Hough 5 9 Cha-Cha-Cha
Melanie Brown Maksim Chmerkovskiy 5 10 Mambo
Hélio Castroneves Julianne Hough 5 10 Quickstep

Number of Perfect 30s

Perfect Tens

Celebrity Professional Score Season Week Dance Judge(s) That Gave The Ten(s)
Stacy Keibler Tony Dovolani 29 2 2 Rumba Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli
Drew Lachey Cheryl Burke 28 2 4 Paso Doble Bruno Tonioli
Stacy Keibler Tony Dovolani 28 2 7 Cha-Cha-Cha Bruno Tonioli
Drew Lachey Cheryl Burke 29 2 7 Rumba Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli
Joey Lawrence Edyta Sliwinska 29 3 2 Quickstep Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli
Willa Ford Maksim Chmerkovskiy 28 3 4 Waltz Bruno Tonioli
Mario Lopez Karina Smirnoff 29 3 4 Paso Doble Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli
Mario Lopez Karina Smirnoff 28 3 6 Mambo Bruno Tonioli
Emmitt Smith Cheryl Burke 28 3 7 Waltz Carrie Ann Inaba
Mario Lopez Karina Smirnoff 29 3 7 Foxtrot Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli
Joey Lawrence Edyta Sliwinska 29 3 7 Foxtrot Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli
Emmitt Smith Cheryl Burke 29 3 7 Mambo Carrie Ann Inaba and Len Goodman
Joey Lawrence Edyta Sliwinska 28 3 7 Mambo Bruno Tonioli
Joey Lawrence Edyta Sliwinska 28 3 8 Tango Carrie Ann Inaba
Mario Lopez Karina Smirnoff 28 3 8 Waltz Bruno Tonioli
Mario Lopez Karina Smirnoff 29 3 8 Samba Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli
Monique Coleman Louis van Amstel 29 3 8 Cha-Cha-Cha Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli
Emmitt Smith Cheryl Burke 29 3 8 Rumba Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli
Emmitt Smith Cheryl Burke 29 3 9 Waltz Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli
Joey Lawrence Edyta Sliwinska 29 3 9 Quickstep Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli
Mario Lopez Karina Smirnoff 29 3 9 Cha-Cha-Cha Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli
Mario Lopez Karina Smirnoff 29 3 10 Samba Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli
Emmitt Smith Cheryl Burke 29 3 10 Freestyle Carrie Ann Inaba and Len Goodman
Joey Fatone Kym Johnson 28 4 4 Paso Doble Carrie Ann Inaba
Laila Ali Maksim Chmerkovskiy 28 4 5 Rumba Len Goodman
Laila Ali Maksim Chmerkovskiy 28 4 6 Cha-Cha-Cha Bruno Tonioli
Apolo Anton Ohno Julianne Hough 28 4 6 Rumba Bruno Tonioli
Laila Ali Maksim Chmerkovskiy 29 4 7 Quickstep Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli
Joey Fatone Kym Johnson 29 4 7 Foxtrot Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli
Apolo Anton Ohno Julianne Hough 28 4 7 Mambo Bruno Tonioli
Apolo Anton Ohno Julianne Hough 28 4 8 Tango Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli
Joey Fatone Kym Johnson 29 4 8 Mambo Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli
Ian Ziering Cheryl Burke 28 4 9 Tango Len Goodman
Apolo Anton Ohno Julianne Hough 29 4 9 Cha-Cha-Cha Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli
Laila Ali Maksim Chmerkovskiy 29 4 10 Paso Doble Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli
Apolo Anton Ohno Julianne Hough 28 4 10 Rumba Bruno Tonioli
Jennie Garth Derek Hough 27 5 4 Paso Doble Len Goodman
Sabrina Bryan Mark Ballas 28 5 5 Rumba Bruno Tonioli
Melanie Brown Maksim Chmerkovskiy 29 5 5 Samba Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli
Hélio Castroneves Julianne Hough 28 5 6 Cha-Cha-Cha Len Goodman
Marie Osmond Jonathan Roberts 28 5 7 Quickstep Carrie Ann Inaba
Jennie Garth Derek Hough 28 5 7 Rumba Bruno Tonioli
Melanie Brown Maksim Chmerkovskiy 29 5 8 Mambo Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli
Jennie Garth Derek Hough 28 5 9 Tango Len Goodman
Marie Osmond Johnathan Roberts 29 5 9 Quickstep Carrie Ann Inaba and Len Goodman
Melanie Brown Maksim Chmerkovskiy 28 5 10 Cha-Cha-Cha Bruno Tonioli
Hélio Castroneves Julianne Hough 29 5 10 Freestyle Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli

Lowest Scores

This is a list of the worst scores received. All scores below 15 are listed.

Celebrity Professional Score Season Week Dance
Kelly Monaco Alec Mazo 13 1 1 Waltz
Evander Holyfield Edyta Sliwinska 14 1 2 Quickstep
Evander Holyfield Edyta Sliwinska 13 1 3 Jive
Kenny Mayne Andrea Hale 13 2 1 Cha-Cha-Cha
Master P Ashly DelGrosso 12 2 1 Cha-Cha-Cha
Master P Ashly DelGrosso 14 2 3 Jive
Master P Ashly DelGrosso 8 2 4 Paso Doble
Tucker Carlson Elena Grinenko 12 3 1 Cha-Cha-Cha
Billy Ray Cyrus Karina Smirnoff 13 4 1 Cha-Cha-Cha
Clyde Drexler Elena Grinenko 13 4 5 Rumba

Best and Worst Scoring Performances

  • Cha-Cha-Cha: Best Emmitt Smith/Laila Ali/Jennie Garth/Helio Castroneves (30), Worst Master P/Tucker Carlson (12)
  • Waltz: Best John O'Hurley (30), Worst Kelly Monaco (13)
  • Quickstep: Best Apolo Anton Ohno/Laila Ali/Helio Castroneves (30), Worst Evander Holyfield (14)
  • Rumba: Best Joey Lawrence/Melanie Brown (30), Worst Clyde Drexler (13)
  • Jive: Best Stacy Keibler/Joey Fatone/Ian Ziering (30), Worst Evander Holyfield (13)
  • Tango: Best Drew Lachey/Mario Lopez/Joey Fatone (30), Worst Wayne Newton (18)
  • Samba: Best Stacy Keibler/Emmitt Smith/Apolo Anton Ohno/Laila Ali (30), Worst John Ratzenberger (18)
  • Foxtrot: Best Joey Fatone/Helio Castroneves (30), Worst Sara Evans/Leeza Gibbons (15)
  • Paso Doble: Best Drew Lachey/Mario Lopez/Apolo Anton Ohno/Sabrina Bryan/Melanie Brown (30), Worst Master P (8)
  • Freestyle: Best Kelly Monaco/Drew Lachey/Mario Lopez/Apolo Anton Ohno/Joey Fatone (30), Worst Marie Osmond (22)
  • Mambo: Best Emmitt Smith/Laila Ali/Melanie Brown (30), Worst Mark Cuban (18)
  • Viennese Waltz: Melanie Brown (30), Worst Mark Cuban (22)

General information

Edyta Sliwinska is the only professional that has been on the show for every season. Maksim Chmerkovskiy, 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 procedure

Starting 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 perfect score of 30, and a lowest score of three (though the lowest score ever given was a 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.[8]

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 per medium during and immediately after each performance show.

Withdrawals

Sara Evans in the third season was the first celebrity to withdraw from the competition. 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.[9]

Relationships

There have been two confirmed relationships over the series between the star and their professional partner. These are Season Three's Mario Lopez and Karina Smirnoff[10], and Season Five's Sabrina Bryan and Mark Ballas.[11]

It was rumored that Season Three's Willa Ford and Maksim Chmerkovskiy had a relationship, but those rumors were ended when Ford announced her engagement to hockey player Mike Modano[12].

Further, Cheryl Burke is in a relationship with Matthew Lawrence, brother to Season Three's Joey Lawrence. Professional Dancers Alec Mazo & Edyta Sliwinska, and Jonathan Roberts & Anna Trebunskaya are married.

Len and Bruno

During the third and fifth seasons Judges Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli were filming both Dancing With The Stars and its UK counterpart Strictly Come Dancing simultaneously, and had to fly across the Atlantic twice a week for almost the entire season.

DVD

A DVD titled Dancing With The Stars: Cardio Dance was released on April 3, 2007 featuring Kym Johnson, Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Ashly DelGrosso. The program contains cardiovascular workouts adapted from Cha-cha, paso doble, samba, and jive dance routines.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ http://www.worldscreen.com/newscurrent.php?filename=uktv091007.htm
  2. ^ Primetime Tuesday Ratings: ABC's Dancing With the Stars Explodes Out of the Gate
  3. ^ Kissell, Rick (2007-03-20). "'Dancing' a dynamo for ABC". Variety (magazine). Retrieved 2007-03-25.
  4. ^ "Monday 9/24/07". 2007-09-25. Retrieved 2007-09-25.
  5. ^ "Tuesday 9/25/07". 2007-09-26. Retrieved 2007-09-26.
  6. ^ http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000937471
  7. ^ Variety.com: 'Idol,' Olympics top Friday
  8. ^ Dancing With The Stars Voting Summary, abc.go.com
  9. ^ http://www.abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/DancingStars/story?id=2912176
  10. ^ Mario Lopez & Karina Smirnoff: Moving In! by Emily Fromm, 5/14/2007. People.com retrieved on 11/26/07.
  11. ^ Dancing with the StarsRomance Revealed: "I Absolutely Love and Adore Him!" Retrieved on 11/26/07.
  12. ^ Willa Ford: Me & Maksim Chmerkovskiy Never an Item Retrieved on 11/26/07.

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