Dancing with the Stars (US TV series)

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Dancing with the Stars

Genre	Reality
Creator(s)	BBC Entertainment
Starring	Hosts: Tom Bergeron (2005-present) Samantha Harris (2006-present Lisa Canning (2005) Judges: Len Goodman Carrie Ann Inaba Bruno Tonioli
Country of origin	United States
Production
Running time	61-91 minutes (Live)
Broadcast
Original channel	ABC
Picture format	480i (SDTV), 720p (HDTV)
Original run	June 1, 2005 – present
Links
Official website
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Dancing with the Stars is a reality show airing on ABC in the United States. The show is based on the British BBC TV series Strictly Come Dancing and is part of the international Dancing with the Stars franchise.

The concept of the show is to pair a celebrity with a professional dancer in an attempt to win a high score from a panel of three judges and then a high number of votes from the viewers, who can call in and vote online. The person who receives the lowest score is eliminated, but they are allowed to dance one last dance at the end of the show.

The current co-hosts are Tom Bergeron and Samantha Harris. In season 1, Bergeron's co-host was Lisa Canning. The panel of judges is Len Goodman (head judge), Carrie Ann Inaba, and Bruno Tonioli. Harold Wheeler is the musical director. The announcements for the show's titles and introductions for dances and judges' scores were recorded in the United Kingdom by Alan Dedicoat.

[edit] 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".

Standard dances	Latin dances
Foxtrot Quickstep Tango Viennese Waltz Waltz	Cha-cha-cha Jive Mambo Paso Doble Rumba Samba

[edit] Season 1

Eventual winner Kelly Monaco and partner Alec Mazo on Season 1 of the American edition of Dancing With The Stars.

The American ABC Network adaptation premiered on June 1, 2005, to over 13 million viewers, the biggest summer debut ever for an American reality series. The second week climbed to 15 million viewers, and the show climbed to #1 in the ratings, where it remained for the remainder of the summer 2005 TV season. The contestants were:

Trista Rehn Sutter (The Bachelor contestant and the Bachelorette in series one) - partner Louis van Amstel (eliminated first)
Evander Holyfield (heavyweight boxer) - partner Edyta Sliwinska (eliminated second)
Rachel Hunter (model) - partner Jonathan Roberts (eliminated third)
Joey McIntyre (singer and actor) - partner Ashly DelGrosso (eliminated fourth)
John O'Hurley (actor and TV host) - partner Charlotte Jørgensen (runners-up)
Kelly Monaco (actress) - partner Alec Mazo (winners)

Some viewers felt the outcome of the show was unfair, as half the winning points came from the judges' votes, instead of solely from the votes of viewers, and Monaco and Mazo had received a "perfect 10" from each of the judges that night (this view reflected a misunderstanding of the scoring system; in fact, because the scoring was based on ordinals and the audience vote was the tiebreaker, Monaco and Mazo must have received more audience votes). In response to the criticism, ABC announced a 90-minute special, Dancing with the Stars: Dance-off, a rematch between Monaco and O'Hurley (with their respective partners), to air September 20, 2005, at the beginning of the fall 2005 television season. The winner, determined solely by fan votes, was announced in a September 22 results show. This time, O'Hurley and his dance partner Charlotte emerged as the winners.

Evander Holyfield and Rachel Hunter appeared on Strictly Come Dancing, the British version of Dancing with the Stars, in a special Christmas 2005 competition. Both were eliminated during the first two rounds.

The success of Dancing with the Stars quickly inspired a similar show from the Fox Broadcasting Company entitled Skating with Celebrities (based on another British show, Dancing on Ice, from ITV). (Another dance show, So You Think You Can Dance, an RTL Group contest featuring unknown aspiring dancers, was already set to air before Dancing with the Stars premiered.)

[edit] Judges' Scoring summary

Bold scores indicate the highest for that week. Italics indicate the lowest.

Team	Week 1 June 1	Week 2 June 8	Week 3 June 15	Week 4 June 22	Week 5 June 29	Week 6 July 6	Dance Off September 26
Monaco/Mazo	13	17	21	26	22+25=47	25+30=55	25+24+25=74
O'Hurley/Jørgensen	20	26	24	21	27+27=54	27+27=54	22+30+25=77
McIntyre/DelGrosso	20	21	22	20	20+25=45
Hunter/Roberts	20	24	26	25
Holyfield/Sliwinska	18	14	13
Sutter/van Amstel	18	19

[edit] Season 2

Season two (premiered January 5, 2006) expanded from six couples to ten. Celebrity participants were:

Kenny Mayne, ESPN sports anchorman - partner Andrea Hale (eliminated first)
Tatum O'Neal, Oscar-winning actress - partner Nick Kosovich (eliminated second)
Giselle Fernández, TV journalist- partner Jonathan Roberts (eliminated third)
Master P, rapper/entrepreneur - partner Ashly DelGrosso (eliminated fourth) (Master P replaced son Lil' Romeo after a basketball injury that occurred before the season's premiere)
Tia Carrere, actress/model - partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy (eliminated fifth)
George Hamilton, actor - partner Edyta Sliwinska (eliminated sixth)
Lisa Rinna, actress/TV host - partner Louis van Amstel (eliminated seventh)
Stacy Keibler, actress and former WWE professional wrestler - partner Tony Dovolani (third place)
Jerry Rice, NFL wide receiver - partner Anna Trebunskaya (runner up)
Drew Lachey, singer (and former 98 Degrees member) - partner Cheryl Burke (WINNERS)

In many ways the second series cast was similarly assembled to that of the first season: Both had a retired athlete (Holyfield/Rice), an ex-boy band member (McIntyre/Lachey), a model (Hunter/Carerre), a soap star (Monaco/Rinna), and a debonair older man (Hurley/Hamilton).

The second season expanded the series from an hour to ninety minutes, and added an hour-long results show the following night (in the first season no couples were eliminated in the first week; the first couple was eliminated at the end of the second episode, the second couple at the end of the third episode, and so on). Two couples were declared safe in an earlier portion of the show, the remaining couples were then named off until only the bottom two were left (the last two couples had the lowest amount of votes, with the exception of week seven, where the show explicitly stated that the order of all but the eliminated couple was random).

Musical guests such as the Pussycat Dolls, Jesse McCartney, Natasha Bedingfield, Michael Bublé, Bill Medley, Burt Bacharach, Mary J. Blige and Barry Manilow performed while the professional dancers demonstrated various routines. In week four the results show introduced an encore of what the judges considered the previous night's best routine - twice going to Drew Lachey (the paso doble in week four and the rumba in week seven), once to Stacy Keibler (the samba in week five) and once to Rinna (the quickstep in week six).

In the second season, Drew Lachey and Stacy Keibler were considered the early frontrunners, as both had solid early performances, and some prior dance experience: Lachey's stage performances with 98 Degrees were extensively choreographed, and Keibler had childhood dance training as well as being a professional cheerleader. Although both Keibler and Lachey were assumed to have some form of a fan base, there was no way of knowing whether 98 Degrees fans or WWE fans were responsible for their success - Drew credited the people of Cincinnati, Ohio for helping him stay in the competition). Lachey was lauded for his passion and willingness to take risks, and Keibler for her long legs and technical perfection. With regards to the judges' scoring, in nearly every week, Lachey and Keibler held the top two spots in the judges' scoring (either first-second or tied for first). In addition, Lachey and Keibler were the only dancers in season 2 to receive a perfect score (Keibler four, Lachey three), and have three of the four "encore" performances (Lachey twice, Keibler once). In week seven, Stacy and Tony became the first couple in series history to receive two 30s in a row. Drew and Cheryl were always among the top two highest scores and along with Jerry Rice and Anna Trebunskaya, were the only couple to never be chosen for the bottom two. The judges repeatedly told Keibler and Lachey that they were the best or among the best dancers in any of the international versions of the series.

[edit] Controversies over fan voting

Once again, fans accounted for half of the vote total. This was in part responsible for the extended presence of Master P, who had the worst average of any dancer ever (He is currently the only dancer to receive a score under 10) and refused to wear dance shoes. But in spite of harsh criticism from some of the judges, he stayed for several weeks. It was also revealed that by the fourth week of competition, Master P had only logged in 20 hours of dance training (other stars had logged in 100 hours by week 4). His continued presence was attributed to his strong fan base, as well as fans who saw him as the underdog or who wanted to "vote for the worst". After the surprise departure of Giselle Fernández and low scores (a total of just 8 points for his final dance - the lowest score in the history of the series) from the judges, he was finally eliminated.

Jerry Rice also benefited from the fan vote. In the closing weeks of the competition, the judges became increasingly critical of Rice (Len Goodman, at one point said, "Jerry Rice? It's more like geriatric!"), and although they acknowledged that he continued to put great effort in his performances, they felt he no longer deserved to be there. Rice and his outspoken partner Trebunskaya rebutted those criticisms, and the fan vote sided with them, ensuring Rice never placed in the bottom two (until the final three). In week seven, in a matter of some controversy, Rice advanced to the finals, and Lisa Rinna (whom the judges and some viewers felt was a superior dancer to Rice) was eliminated. However, in the final three dances, the judges began to admire Rice's effort and his scores improved, though he still lagged behind both Lachey and Keibler. Much of this can be attributed to the fact that lines for voting were open at the beginning of the show and Rice danced first during many of the shows airings.

[edit] Second Series finale

Week seven of season two saw two dances per couple. The judges' scores for week seven were combined for a total possible score of 60. Lachey and Burke garnered perfect scores and much buzz, especially for their cowboy-inspired freestyle. Jerry Rice and his dance partner, Anna Trebunskaya, garnered a score of 26 for the replay of their foxtrot and 27 points for their disco-inspired free routine, outscoring Keibler and Dovolani's free dance by a single point. Keibler, on the other hand, received praise for her jive, but criticism for an underwhelming Saturday Night Fever-esque freestyle. In the final round, Keibler and Dovolani had to choreograph a new samba routine as their final dance of the season. Keibler blamed her performance on an ankle injury, but proved unbreakable to the end with a perfect score (despite the fact she took third place). Following the finale, when asked if Stacy deserved just 3rd place, Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli both concurred: Stacy should have at least been honored as the runner-up.

The two scores from the week eight finale were combined with the score from the final show for a total possible score of 90. All of the previously eliminated contestants were on hand for the second series finale. Keibler received a 30 and Rice and Lachey a 27 for their final dances. However, in a decision that surprised some viewers, Keibler was the first performer to be eliminated. Even Kenny Mayne - who was the first overall to be eliminated - was critical of Keibler's elimination, blurting out as he was interviewed by Bergeron, "Well, we just eliminated a girl with a perfect score!"

Due to the complex scoring system, many viewers suspected that the only way Jerry Rice could have won was if he had been in the final two with Keibler.

Sure enough, at the end of the finale, Lachey and Burke won what he had jokingly termed the "ugly" trophy, with Rice playfully attempting to steal the prize as the closing credits rolled.

Season two improved upon the ratings performance of the first season, generating tens of millions of viewers and holding its own against or beating such competition as Survivor: Exile Island, American Idol, and the 2006 Winter Olympics. The finale brought in an audience of 27 million viewers.

[edit] Judges' Scoring summary

Bold scores indicate the highest for that week. Italics indicate the lowest score. * implies that dancers were in the bottom two (or bottom three in the case of week two).

Team	Week 1 Jan. 5	Week 2 Jan. 12	Week 3 Jan. 19	Week 4 Jan. 26	Week 5 Feb. 2	Week 6 Feb. 9	Week 7 Feb. 16	Week 8 & Finals Feb. 23 & 26
Lachey/Burke	24	27	27	28	27	30	26+29=55	30+30+27=87
Rice/Trebunskaya	21	23	19	24	23	23	20+21=41	26+27+27=80
Keibler/Dovolani	22	29	27	26	30	30	27+28=55*	30+26+30=86
Rinna/van Amstel	19	20	25	26	25	27*	26+27=53*
Hamilton/Sliwinska	18	22	22*	21	24*	23
Carrere/Chmerkovskiy	20*	22	26	25*	22
Master P/DelGrosso	12	16*	14	8*
Fernández/Roberts	23	24	22*
O'Neal/Kosovich	23	17*
Mayne/Hale	13*

[edit] Season 3

Season three (premiered September 12, 2006) expanded from ten couples to eleven. Celebrity participants were:

Tucker Carlson, political pundit/MSNBC news anchor – partner Elena Grinenko (eliminated first)
Shanna Moakler, former Miss USA/Playboy Playmate/reality television star - partner Jesse DeSoto (eliminated second)
Harry Hamlin, actor – partner Ashly DelGrosso (eliminated third)
Vivica A. Fox, actress – partner Nick Kosovich (eliminated fourth)
Willa Ford, singer - partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy (eliminated fifth)
Sara Evans, singer - partner Tony Dovolani (withdrew during sixth week)
Jerry Springer, talk show host and former politician – partner Kym Johnson (former champion of Australian version of Dancing with the Stars) (eliminated sixth)
Monique Coleman, actress - partner Louis van Amstel (eliminated seventh)
Joey Lawrence, actor – partner Edyta Sliwinska (eliminated eighth)
Mario Lopez, actor and TV host – partner Karina Smirnoff (runners-up)
Emmitt Smith, NFL running back – partner Cheryl Burke (WINNERS)

For this season, the scoring system has been changed. Fan vote still accounts for half of the total score, but scoring is now translated directly from percentages rather than into ordinals. The judges scores are added up, and each performer is given points based on the percentage of the total points distributed among all performers. (For example, a team receives a score of 25. A total of 207 points were awarded to all nine performers. The team received 12.08% of that total, so that team earned 12.08 points.) The fan vote is handled the same way, with the points based on how much of the total fan vote the star received. (So, in the same example, if the team earned 15% of the total fan vote, their grand total is 27.08 points.) ^[1]

The final results show of the season featured the Slim Fast Dance Challenge, where Tysonia Sichinga and Christian Perry illustrated how exercise such as dancing could aid weight loss.

[edit] Evans' withdrawal

On October 12, 2006 Sara Evans announced her withdrawal from the competition to be with her kids after filing for divorce from her husband, Craig Schelske.^[2] In a "final appearance",^[3] a pre-taped interview with Evans about her decision was shown on the October 17 episode.

Willa Ford stated on Headline News' Robin & Company that ABC had invited her to return to the competition, but she declined.^[4] At the end of the October 18 results show, after showing the bottom two, it was revealed that there would be no elimination for the week due to Evans' departure.^[5] The scores of Week 6 were combined with the scores of Week 7 for the October 25 elimination. Evans returned for the season finale.

[edit] Fan voting influence

On weeks four and five Ford and Fox were eliminated, despite Ford having tied in first place, and Fox tied in fourth. Ford was in the bottom two along with Springer, who was tied for the lowest score. Fox was in the bottom two along with Coleman, who both performed great the previous week and tied for fourth that week. Ford's elimination was booed by the audience, and so was Fox's. This extends the theme similar to last season where dancers with higher scores were often eliminated before ones that tended to get lower scores and also had more popularity with the fan vote. Both Evans and Springer benefited from the fan vote until Evans withdrew in week 6 and Springer was finally eliminated in week 7.

[edit] Judges' Scoring summary

Bold scores indicate the highest for that round. Italic scores indicate lowest. * signifies the couples that were in the bottom 3 of week 1 or bottom 2 of weeks 2 through 7. There was no official bottom 2 after week 7 (except the final.)

Team	Week 1 Sept. 12	Week 2 Sept. 19	Week 3 Sept. 26	Week 4 Oct. 3	Week 5 Oct. 10	Weeks 6 & 7			Week 8 Oct. 31	Week 9 Nov. 7	Week 10 Nov. 14
Team	Week 1 Sept. 12	Week 2 Sept. 19	Week 3 Sept. 26	Week 4 Oct. 3	Week 5 Oct. 10	Oct. 17	Oct. 24	Total	Week 8 Oct. 31	Week 9 Nov. 7	Week 10 Nov. 14
Smith/Burke	24	24	19	24	27	25	28+29=57	82	25+29=54	29+30=59	30+30+29=89
Lopez/Smirnoff	26	21	22	29	27	28	29+27=56	84	28+29=57	30+29=59	29+30+30=89
Lawrence/Sliwinska	21	29	22	27	25	24*	29+28=57	81	28+26=54	29+30=59
Coleman/van Amstel	19	26	27	24*	27	23	27+27=54	77*	24+29=53
Springer/Johnson	16	19	21*	22	24*	18*	24+22=46	64*
Evans/Dovolani	15	21	25	20	24	WD
Ford/Chmerkovskiy	22*	23*	22	28	27*
Fox/Kosovich	22	24	27	24*
Hamlin/DelGrosso	17	21	22*
Moakler/DeSoto	18*	22*
Carlson/Grinenko	12*

WD = Evans and Dovolani withdrew October 13 after Evans filed divorce proceedings. As a result, there was no elimination in Week 6.

[edit] Season 4

Dancing with the Stars season 4 premiered on March 19, 2007. To avoid direct competition with Fox's American Idol, the show is scheduled to change to Mondays for the performance, with the results show on Tuesdays. No elimination is scheduled for the first week, in order to allow viewers two weeks to see all of the performers in both Latin and Traditional dance.

The 11 celebrities competing are:

Paulina Porizkova, former supermodel - partner Alec Mazo (eliminated first)
Laila Ali, boxer - partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy
Billy Ray Cyrus, singer and actor - partner Karina Smirnoff
Clyde Drexler, NBA legend - partner Elena Grinenko
Joey Fatone, singer and actor - partner Kym Johnson
Shandi Finnessey, former Miss USA and game show host - partner Brian Fortuna
Leeza Gibbons, talk show host - partner Tony Dovolani
Heather Mills, ex-wife of Paul McCartney - partner Jonathan Roberts
Apolo Anton Ohno, Olympic speedskater - partner Julianne Hough
John Ratzenberger, actor - partner Edyta Sliwinska
Ian Ziering, actor - partner Cheryl Burke

There have already been some major changes, even before the start of the season:

Actor Vincent Pastore was originally announced as being partnered with Edyta Sliwinska, but pulled out after one week of rehearsals. In a statement, Pastore cited his inability to commit to the physical demands that result from the program. Actor John Ratzenberger was then chosen to replace him.^[6]. However, ESPN host Mike Greenberg had actively campaigned for Pastore's spot on the show.^[7]
Ashly DelGrosso-Costa, one of the regular dancers, announced that she also will not appear this season, in this case due to a pregnancy. The child, who DelGrosso is having with one of the show's field producers, Mike Costa, is due in July 2007.
Also, Louis van Amstel has written on his blog that he will not be dancing this season(because all the females partners are taller than him) but he will be active on the show as a professional dancer and choreographer for the show.^[8]

[edit] Judges' Scoring summary

Bold scores indicate the highest for that week. Italics indicate the lowest score. * Indicates that a couple was in the bottom two of that week. ** Indicates couple was eliminated that week

Team	Weeks 1 & 2 Total Mar. 19/ Mar. 26	Week 3 Apr. 2	Week 4 Apr. 9	Week 5 Apr. 16	Week 6 Apr. 23	Week 7 Apr. 30	Week 8 May 7	Week 9 May 14	Week 10 May 21
Ali/Chmerkovskiy	23+27=50	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Cyrus/Smirnoff	13+21=34	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Drexler/Grinenko	16+18=34	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Fatone/Johnson	24+24=48	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Finnessey/Fortuna	19+20=39*	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Gibbons/Dovolani	15+21=36	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Mills/Roberts	18+24=42	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Ohno/Hough	21+26=47	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Ratzenberger/Sliwinska	17+21=38	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Ziering/Burke	21+22=43	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Porizkova/Mazo	19+21=40**

[edit] U.S. Television Ratings

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

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

Season	Season Premiere		Season Finale		TV Season	Timeslot	Rank	Viewers (in millions)
Season	Date	Viewers (in millions)	Date	Viewers (in millions)	TV Season	Timeslot	Rank	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
2nd	January 5, 2006	17.46	Part 2: February 26, 2006	27.23	2005-2006	Friday 8:00PM (results show)	#18	14.81
3rd	September 12, 2006	20.06^[9]	Part 1: November 14, 2006	26.80	2006-2007	Tuesday 8:00PM (dance show)		20.69
3rd	September 12, 2006	20.06^[9]	Part 2: November 15, 2006	27.29	2006-2007	Wednesday 8:00PM (results show)		19.12
4th	March 19, 2007	21.80^[10]			2006-2007	Monday 8:00PM (dance show)
4th	March 19, 2007	21.80^[10]			2006-2007	Tuesday 9:00PM (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.

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 ABC since Who Wants to Be a Millionaire in 2000 and the most-watched Thursday 8 p.m. series on ABC since Mork & Mindy in 1979. In its second season, it attracted similarly high viewing numbers compared to its timeslot competitor, CBS' Survivor: Panama - Exile Island.

The first part of the series' second season finale aired on Thursday, 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 2006 Winter Olympics ladies' figure skating finals on NBC (17.7 million viewers from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m.), an episode of CBS' Survivor: Panama - Exile Island (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.).^[11]

[edit] North American Tour

On the October 25, 2006, results show, Dancing with the Stars – The Tour was announced. Produced by ABC and AEG Worldwide, 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 on December 19, 2006, and ended in Atlantic City on February 11, 2007. The pairs performing in the tour were:

Drew Lachey and Cheryl Burke
Joey McIntyre and Kym Johnson
Lisa Rinna and Louis Van Amstel
Joey Lawrence and Edyta Sliwinska
Harry Hamlin and Karina Smirnoff
Sara Evans performed at the January 21st show in Nashville.
Jerry Springer performed at 5 shows, including the 21st with Evans.

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.

[edit] Facts and Figures

[edit] Winners

So far, there has been one female celebrity winner and two male celebrity winners. They are:
- Season 1 - Kelly Monaco and her professional partner Alec Mazo
- Season 2 - Drew Lachey and his professional partner Cheryl Burke
- Season 3 - Emmitt Smith and his professional partner Cheryl Burke

[edit] Highest Judges' Score

Only sixteen occasions has a perfect thirty out of thirty been awarded:
- Kelly Monaco and Alec Mazo (season 1 week 6) Freestyle
- John O'Hurley and Charlotte Jorgensen (season 1 week 7) Waltz
- Stacy Keibler and Tony Dovolani (season 2 week 5) Samba
- Drew Lachey and Cheryl Burke (season 2 week 6) Tango
- Stacy Keibler and Tony Dovolani (season 2 week 6) Jive
- Drew Lachey and Cheryl Burke (season 2 week 8) Paso Doble
- Drew Lachey and Cheryl Burke (season 2 week 8) Freestyle
- Stacy Keibler and Tony Dovolani (season 2 week 8) Jive
- Stacy Keibler and Tony Dovolani (season 2 week 8) Samba
- Emmitt Smith and Cheryl Burke (season 3 week 9) Cha Cha
- Joey Lawrence and Edyta Sliwinska (season 3 week 9) Rumba
- Mario Lopez and Karina Smirnoff (season 3 week 9) Tango
- Emmitt Smith and Cheryl Burke (season 3 week 10) Samba
- Emmitt Smith and Cheryl Burke (season 3 week 10) Mambo
- Mario Lopez and Karina Smirnoff (season 3 week 10) Paso Doble
- Mario Lopez and Karina Smirnoff (season 3 week 10) Freestyle

Only three times has there been two perfect thirty out of thirties awarded to a couple in one episode:
- Drew Lachey and Cheryl Burke (season 2 week 8) Paso Doble and Freestyle
- Emmitt Smith and Cheryl Burke (season 3 week 10) Samba and Mambo
- Mario Lopez and Karina Smirnoff (season 3 week 10) Paso Doble and Freestyle

[edit] Perfect Tens

In addition to the perfect scores listed above, judges have awarded perfect tens on a number of other occasions:

Stacy Keibler and Tony Dovolani (season 2 week 2) Rumba from Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli
Stacy Keibler and Tony Dovolani (season 2 week 5) Samba from Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli
Stacy Keibler and Tony Dovolani (season 2 week 6) Jive from Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli

Drew Lachey and Cheryl Burke (season 2 week 4) Paso Doble from Bruno Tonioli
Drew Lachey and Cheryl Burke (season 2 week 7) Rumba from Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli
Stacy Keibler and Tony Dovolani (season 2 week 7) Cha Cha Cha from Bruno Tonioli
Joey Lawrence and Edyta Sliwinska (season 3 week 2) Quickstep from Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli
Mario Lopez and Karina Smirnoff (season 3 week 4) Paso Doble from Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli
Willa Ford and Maksim Chmerkovskiy (season 3 week 4) Waltz from Bruno Tonioli
Mario Lopez and Karina Smirnoff (season 3 week 6) Mambo from Bruno Tonioli
Emmitt Smith and Cheryl Burke (season 3 week 7) Waltz from Carrie Ann Inaba
Emmitt Smith and Cheryl Burke (season 3 week 7) Mambo from Carrie Ann Inaba and Len Goodman
Joey Lawrence and Edyta Sliwinska (season 3 week 7) Foxtrot from Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli
Joey Lawrence and Edyta Sliwinska (season 3 week 7) Mambo from Bruno Tonioli
Mario Lopez & Karina Smirnoff (season 3 week 7) Foxtrot from Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli
Emmitt Smith and Cheryl Burke (season 3 week 8) Rumba from Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli
Joey Lawrence and Edyta Sliwinska (season 3 week 8) Tango from Carrie Ann Inaba
Mario Lopez and Karina Smirnoff (season 3 week 8) Waltz from Bruno Tonioli
Mario Lopez and Karina Smirnoff (season 3 week 8) Samba from Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli
Monique Coleman and Louis van Amstel (season 3 week 8) Cha Cha Cha from Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli
Emmitt Smith and Cheryl Burke (season 3 week 9) Waltz from Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli
Joey Lawrence and Edyta Sliwinska (season 3 week 9) Quickstep from Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli
Mario Lopez and Karina Smirnoff (season 3 week 9) Cha Cha Cha from Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli
Emmitt Smith and Cheryl Burke (season 3 week 10) Freestyle from Carrie Ann Inaba and Len Goodman
Mario Lopez and Karina Smirnoff (season 3 week 10) Samba Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli

[edit] Lowest Judges' Scores

Master P and Ashly DelGrosso (season 2 week 4) Paso Doble Score: Carrie Ann Inaba 4,Len Goodman 2, Bruno Tonioli 2 total 8
Master P and Ashly DelGrosso (season 2 week 1) Cha Cha Score: Carrie Ann Inaba 4, Len Goodman 4, Bruno Tonioli 4 total 12
Tucker Carlson and Elena Grinenko (season 3 week 1) Cha Cha Score: Carrie Ann Inaba 5,Len Goodman 4, Bruno Tonioli 3 total 12
Kelly Monaco and Alec Mazo (season 1 week 1) Waltz Score: Carrie Ann Inaba 5, Len Goodman 4,Bruno Tonioli 4 total 13
Evander Holyfield and Edyta Sliwinska (season 1 week 3) Jive Score: Carrie Ann Inaba 5, Len Goodman 4, Bruno Tonioli 4 total 13
Kenny Mayne and Andrea Hale (season 2 week 1) Cha Cha Score: Carrie Ann Inaba 4,Len Goodman 5, Bruno Tonioli 4 total 13
Billy Ray Cyrus and Karina Smirnoff (season 4 week 1) Cha Cha Score: Carrie Ann Inaba 5, Len Goodman 4, Bruno Tonioli 4 total 13

[edit] Most Appearances

Only one professional dancer has appeared on all four seasons; one female:
- Edyta Sliwinska

Six professional dancers have appeared on three seasons; two females and four males:
- Louis van Amstel (seasons 1-3)
- Cheryl Burke (seasons 2-4)
- Maksim Chmerkovskiy (seasons 2-4)
- Ashly DelGrosso (seasons 1-3)
- Tony Dovolani (seasons 2-4)
- Jonathan Roberts (seasons 1, 2, & 4)

A further five professional dancers have appeared on two seasons; three females and two males:
- Elena Grinenko (seasons 3 & 4)
- Kym Johnson (seasons 3 & 4)
- Nick Kosovich (seasons 2 & 3)
- Alec Mazo (seasons 1 & 4)
- Karina Smirnoff (seasons 3 & 4)

Episodes
- Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli, and Tom Bergeron have appeared in every single episode.
- With the exception of the above, Cheryl Burke and Samantha Harris have appeared in the most episodes, 37.
- Lisa Canning has only been in 8 episodes in the first season including The dance off.

[edit] Trivia

[edit] Franchise History

Cheryl Burke made Dancing With The Stars franchise history by becoming the first professional dancer to win two championships. Furthermore, she made Dancing With The Stars history by becoming the first professional dancer to win "back to back" titles (two consecutive championships in a row). Cheryl Burke won her first Dancing With The Stars Championship with 98 Degrees boy band member Drew Lachey in the second season of Dancing with the Stars (US TV series). And she won her second championship with NFL (National Football League - American Football) star Emmitt Smith in the third season of Dancing With The Stars in the USA. Cheryl Burke's feat has never been done before by anyone in any of the Dancing With The Stars franchises worldwide.

[edit] Scoring and voting procedure

After each performance, the judges comment, and then after they give a score; A perfect score would be 30/30. With multiple performances, the scores would all be added at the end of the program. Their scores are totaled with the tallying of viewer votes. Unlike other reality shows such as American Idol, Canadians can also vote in this program.

[edit] Withdrawals

Sara Evans in the third season was the first celebrity to withdraw from the competition. Her reason for withdrawing from the competition was due to her divorce. In the process of withdrawing from the competition her partner Tony Dovolani became the first professional dancer to withdraw from the competition due to Sara Evans withdrawal.

Another withdrawal occurred during the run-up to Season 4, on February 28th when Vincent Pastore withdrew from the competetition after only one week of training. He did not realize how much work was needed during a ten-week period. He was replaced on March 2nd by actor John Ratzenberger.

[edit] Len and Bruno

During the third season 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.

[edit] See also

Strictly Come Dancing (original BBC version)
Dancing with the Stars (Australia)
Pants-Off Dance-Off
So You Think You Can Dance
Skating With Celebrities

[edit] Notes

[edit] External links

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[edit] Dances

[edit] Season 1

[edit] Judges' Scoring summary

[edit] Season 2

[edit] Controversies over fan voting

[edit] Second Series finale

[edit] Judges' Scoring summary

[edit] Season 3

[edit] Evans' withdrawal

[edit] Fan voting influence

[edit] Judges' Scoring summary

[edit] Season 4

[edit] Judges' Scoring summary

[edit] U.S. Television Ratings

[edit] North American Tour

[edit] Facts and Figures

[edit] Winners

[edit] Highest Judges' Score

[edit] Perfect Tens

[edit] Lowest Judges' Scores

[edit] Most Appearances

[edit] Trivia

[edit] Franchise History

[edit] Scoring and voting procedure

[edit] Withdrawals

[edit] Len and Bruno

[edit] See also

[edit] Notes

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