"Is anyone on earth more annoying than Tom Bergeron?"

Oh yes - you should see Bruce Forsyth trying to present the UK's Strictly Come Dancing. Now THAT'S truly dreadful.

I think both series very entertaining. I don't take the dancing very seriously, and neither should anyone else.

Curious.

Just what is it about DWTS that you find entertaining?

jj

Well that awful McCartney woman last year was v. good: I kept willing her to fall over, and she did!

Once the popularity with DWTS begins to wane, what next? Skating with the Stars?

Apologies if I am missing deliberate irony, but of course here in the UK we ALREADY have "Dancing On Ice" It's very funny. Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean (who feature) whizz around, casting aside their zimmer frames, and we all laugh.

There was a US version of Skating with the Stars a year or more ago. I think DWTS has done great things for ballroom, people actually know the different dances. And I give the show credit for bringing people into the studio to, at least, give it a try (although not many go beyond level 1). It has also raised the awareness of ballroom with young people. The average age of the new students goes down every session with almost half the class now being young people in their teens and twenties.

CliveHarrison and Ladydance. Hmm…Shows how much I've kept up. Do these skating shows have the same format as DWTS? It seems to me that at least in skating, choreography plays a bigger part. One of my (and others', I gather) problems with DWTS is the distortion it creates of the partnership aspect of ballroom dancing.

Our Dancing with the Stars has been very good entertainment. Nobody is going to have perfect poise and polish in a few weeks without years of training. With us who understand what the correct techneque is will look at it differently to people who have never danced a step in their life. The program in which millions of people watch and vote, it is their program not ours. Out of all the people viewing we are minimal. Percentage wise how many zeros behind a decimal point would there be .ooooooo1% or more..When complaining let us first apply a bit of common sense.

OK. Common sense tells me that if a show purports to be about ballroom dancing then dancing should comprise more than 10% of its content.

I don't dispute that DWTS is popular. What I don't understand is why it would be well liked by people who fill threads on this board with discussions of the fine points of heel leads and waltz timing.

jj

jofjonesboro. They should keep their traps shut. This is a show for the TV. The TV audience is hugh. A Soccer match held in Moscow Between Manchester United and Chelsea a while ago finished after 1 am this morning Moscow time. The late time was to suit live audiences around the world..