Dancing With The Stars

Dancing With The Stars

Dancing With The Stars is an international hit that has been created and recreated in countries all over the world.  According to The Stage Online, a UK website, Bruce Forsyth is continuing the revival in dance programming started by Strictly Come Dancing with a new show that takes him all over the world researching the history of the artform.

The programme takes the veteran entertainer to Cuba, Puerto Rico, Los Angeles and London and features interviews with prestigious performers about the roots of different dance forms. He said: “It’s a history of dance - Latin American dance and tap dancing - getting into the story behind it. I have been doing interviews and learning about the music. I’ve never done interviews before, not in this way. It has been about the most fascinating trip I have ever had.”

Bruce Goes Dancing is a two-part production made by BBC Scotland and will be broadcast later this year. The success of Strictly Come Dancing, presented by Forsyth and Tess Daly, boosted flagging Saturday night ratings on BBC1 and has spawned a number of spin-off series and specials including Graham Norton’s Strictly Dance Fever and Strictly Ice Dancing.

It has been exported to the US television network ABC under the title Dancing With The Stars and will feature former world heavyweight boxing champion Evander Holyfield and supermodel Rachel Hunter.

The BBC team that created the show will make the US version and the programme has also been sold to broadcasters in Denmark, Poland, Belgium and New Zealand.

Reality TV Magazine breaks down how the show works very nicely.  In the first round of competition, each couple will demonstrate how well their training and rehearsing has paid off, by performing a choreographed cha cha cha routine or a waltz. This Latin style of dance (cha cha cha) allows the female professional dancers, Edyta, Charlotte and Ashly, to lead their celebrity dance partners, Evander, John and Joey. In the ballroom style (waltz), the male professional dancers, Louis, Jonathan and Alec, lead their partners, Trista, Rachel and Kelly.

At the end of each performance, judges will give each couple a score. At the end of the broadcast, viewers will be instructed on how to call in and cast their vote for their favorite couple. The highest scores (from the judges and the audience) will be combined. At the conclusion of next week's episode, one couple will be eliminated.

The competitors include:

Trista Sutter and Louis van Amstel

Rachel Hunter and Jonathan Roberts

Evander Holyfield and Edyta Sliwinska

Joey McIntyre and Ashly Delgrosso

John O'Hurley and Charlotte Jorgensen

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