Dancing with the Stars
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Created by	BBC Entertainment
Presented by	Tom Bergeron Samantha Harris (2006-present) Lisa Canning (2005) Drew Lachey (2007, filled in for Samantha Harris)
Judges	Len Goodman Carrie Ann Inaba Bruno Tonioli
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	5
No. of episodes	86
Production
Production locations	CBS Television City (Studio 46) Los Angeles, California
Running time	61-91 minutes (Live)
Original release
Network	American Broadcasting Company
Release	June 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".

Winners

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.

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]

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:

• Drew Lachey and Cheryl Burke
• Joey McIntyre and Kym Johnson (Kym hurt her arm during the tour and was replaced by Julianne Hough)
• Lisa Rinna and Louis Van Amstel
• Joey Lawrence and Edyta Sliwinska
• Harry Hamlin and Karina Smirnoff

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:

• Joey McIntyre and Julianne Hough
• Drew Lachey and Cheryl Burke
• Joey Lawrence and Edyta Sliwinska
• Joey Fatone and Kym Johnson

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

• Sabrina Bryan and Mark Ballas
• Monique Coleman and Alec Mazo
• Joey Lawrence and Edyta Sliwinska
• Wayne Newton and Cheryl Burke
• Marie Osmond and Jonathan Roberts

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:

Number of Perfect 30s

• • 5: Apolo Anton Ohno; Joey Fatone; Melanie Brown
  • 4: Stacy Keibler; Laila Ali; Hélio Castroneves
  • 3: Drew Lachey; Mario Lopez; Emmitt Smith
  • 1: Kelly Monaco; John O'Hurley; Joey Lawrence; Ian Ziering; Sabrina Bryan; Jennie Garth

Perfect Tens

Lowest Scores

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

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].

Furthermore, Cheryl Burkeis in a relationship with Matthew Lawrence, the brother of Season 3 competitor Joey Lawrence. Joey set them up while performing on the Winter tour of 2006.^{[13] [14]}

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

• Strictly Come Dancing (Original BBC version)
• Dancing with the Stars (Full list of international versions)
• So You Think You Can Dance (US)
• Skating With Celebrities

Notes

External links

• Official ABC Website
• Dancing with the Stars: The Tour
• Dancing with the Stars at IMDb
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