DanceX
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| Format | Talent show |
| Presented by | Ben Shephard |
| Starring | Arlene's Panel:[1] Arlene Phillips Ashley Wallen Joshua Alamu Bruno's Panel:[2] Bruno Tonioli Derek Hough CeCe Sammy |
| Country of origin |  United Kingdom |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of episodes | 7 |
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| Producer(s) | BBC |
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| Original channel | BBC One |
| Original run | July 14, 2007 – August 25, 2007 |
DanceX is a reality television show produced in the UK for BBC One. It is a live show, in which two teams of male and female dancers compete to form a new dance group. Team Bruno won the show on August 25.
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[edit] DanceX Presenter and Team Leaders
The show is hosted by GMTV and former Xtra Factor presenter, Ben Shephard[3]. The two teams are led by Hot Gossip founder Arlene Phillips and fellow Strictly Come Dancing judge and choreographer Bruno Tonioli.
Both Arlene and Bruno have their own assistants, a choregrapher and vocal coach. Arlene is joined by Ashley Wallen, one of Britain's leading choreographers, and expert vocal coach, Joshua Alamu. Bruno's assistants are Derek Hough, dancer and choreographer and brother of Julianne Hough, and CeCe Sammy, vocal coach.
The dance teams' performances are judged by the British public using the ubiquitous telephone vote.
[edit] Dance Xtra
Straight after the live BBC One DanceX show, there is the spin-off show, Dance Xtra, on BBC Three. Presenters Angellica Bell and Rufus Hound will chat to Arlene and Bruno about how both groups performed that evening. There are extra interviews with the eliminated dancer, and unseen footage is shown. Each week Dance Xtra has a celebrity guest and fan of the show.
[edit] Auditions
Auditions were held in the following places:
- Glasgow: Friday 4th May
- Manchester: Friday 11th / Saturday 12th May
- Bristol: Thursday 17th May
- London: Friday 18th / Saturday 19th May
[edit] Shows
[edit] Show One
In the first show the sixteen finalists were chosen. They are (in alphabetical order):
- Ashley Shaw
- Becky Leung
- Bobby Windebank
- Camilla Hardy
- Chelsey Reynolds
- Claire Mealor
- Cormack Mary Ampadu, AKA 'Phoenix'
- Daniel Uppal
- Daniele Arbisi
- Emanuel Tabone
- Ife Kuku
- Jamie Meek
- Kalvin Lamey
- Marie McGonigle
- Marquelle Ward
- Rana Roy
[edit] Show Two
In the second show, after seeing all the dancers perform again, Arlene Phillips and Bruno Tonioli chose who was going to be in their respective dance groups. First they picked three boys each, with Bruno starting first, these went as follows:
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Then it was the turn of the girls. Once again Bruno got the chance to pick first:
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After choosing their boys and girls, the remaining four dancers had to dance again for the chance to be in either Arelene's or Bruno's dance group. Bruno was first to choose and he chose Claire Mealor to be in his group. Whilst Arlene picked second and chose to have Camilla Hardy in her dance group. This meant that Bobby Windebank and Jamie Meek were out of the competition. This means that the two groups are now as follows (in alphabetical order):
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[edit] Show Three
The theme of the show was "Latin". The two groups performed separately in three rounds: dancing, singing, and both at the same time. The public were asked to vote for which group they preferred, and polling the most votes was Arlene's, which meant Bruno had to choose one of his members to leave the group. His bottom two were Rebecca and Daniele. After a head-to-head "dance-off", Bruno decided to choose Rebecca to leave the competition. The groups post show three were as follows:
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[edit] Show Four
The theme of the show was "rock 'n' roll". Arlene's group won the public vote once again and Bruno once again had to choose a person to leave his group. This time he chose Daniele, with Claire given a second chance. The groups post show four were as follows:
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[edit] Show Five
The theme of the show was "Las Vegas". Both groups expressed surprise at the previous week's result, and this time Bruno's group won the vote. Arlene chose Ife and Camilla to perform again, and voted off Ife. The groups post show five were as follows:
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[edit] Show Six
The theme of the show was "Disco". Team Bruno won the public vote for a second time. Arlene chose Kalvin and Ashley to perform again, and reluctantly asked Kalvin to leave the competition. The groups post show six were as follows:
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[edit] Show Seven
The series finale allowed the teams to perform what they liked, but the third performance had to be a repeat of what they thought was their best from the previous shows, as well as what would be the winning group's first single. After a live performance by Rihanna, Team Bruno were announced as the winners.
[edit] The Winning Group
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The group have signed a recording contract with Gut Records and released their first single Dancing In Repeat (written by Oscar Gorres and Swedish popstar Danny Saucedo) as a digital download on August 27, 2007. It was released as a CD single on September 3 and reached No. 91 in the UK Singles Chart.
Claire, Marie, Marquelle, Phoenix and Rana have started recording an album and are preparing to support Rihanna on her upcoming UK tour. Readers of The Sun newspaper have chosen the band's name to be 'Pulse'.
[edit] Special Acts
Sophie Ellis-Bextor performed If I Can't Dance a song from her new album Trip The Light Fantastic on show three, 28 July 2007.
Duncan James performed All I Care About Is Love from the musical Chicago on show four, 4 August 2007. He is currently starring as Billy Flynn in the West End production of Chicago.
Girls Aloud performed their new single Sexy! No, No, No... on the show on the August 18, when the groups did disco routines and songs.
Rihanna performed her new single Shut Up And Drive on the final night, as she is the act the winning band will be supporting on tour.
[edit] Ratings
The show got off to a good start with 4.88m, and landing #9 in BBC1's Top 30 Highest Viewed Shows of the week ending 15/07/07[4]. By Episode 2, the show lost around 300,000 viewers - averaging at 4.50m viewers[5]. This wasn't too bad, as it landed #13 on the BBC1 Top 30 of the week[6]. Episode 3 proved to be even less successful, averaging at just 4.00m viewers - and #19 on the BBC1 Top 30 of the week[7]. By Episode 4, the show took a huge decline in viewing figures - ending up with just 2.99m viewers[8] - shedding over 1 million viewers from the previous week - and landing on only #29 for the BBC's Top 30 of the week.[9]. Episode 5 was still not too successful, but brought about 700,000 viewers back, compared to the previous week. It attracted 3.70m, and landed #24 on BBC1's Top 30 of the week. The 6th week of the show had competition in the form of ITV1's The X Factor series 4 launch., which attracted an average of 9.5m viewers, peaking at 10.7m (48% viewing share). DanceX week 6 gathered 2.7m (13% viewing share). The final of DanceX attracted a mild 3.67m and #23 on the BBC1 top 30 of the week, not incredible compared to The X Factor's average of 8.87m, but still not disastrous.[10] However, perhaps most portentious of all is the chart performance of the winning group's single. Winners of previous similar format shows (Popstars, Pop Idol, Fame Academy 1, X-Factor) have all achieved Number 1s in the UK singles chart. Against this pedigree, the Dance X winners' Number 91 debut placing must be regarded as a damning failure.
[edit] Weekly Averages
- Week 1 - 4.88m
- Week 2 - 4.50m
- Week 3 - 4.00m
- Week 4 - 2.99m
- Week 5 - 3.70m
- Week 6 - 2.7m
- Week 7 - 3.67m
The series average is: 3.77m
[edit] International
Shortly after launching in the UK and gaining decent ratings, ABC in the US acquired the local rights to the DanceX format. It was later announced that the show has been picked up as a show to premiere in January 2008.[11] The live program, called Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann, will have two teams led by ABC Dancing with the Stars judges Bruno Tonioli and Carrie Ann Inaba. Dancing with the Stars Season Two winner Drew Lachey will host the program.[12]
[edit] References
- ^ "Arlene's Panel", BBC. Retrieved on 2007-07-12.
- ^ "Bruno's Panel", BBC. Retrieved on 2007-07-12.
- ^ "Ben Shephard exits The X Factor to present DanceX", The Sun, 2 May 2007. Retrieved on 2007-05-07.
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- ^ Breaking News - ABC Flips 'Trees,' '20/20'; Books Winter Premieres | TheFutonCritic.com
- ^ ABC Medianet
[edit] External links
- DanceX at bbc.co.uk
- DanceX at What's on TV
- Unofficial fansite
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