Dancing on Ice around the world

Dancing on Ice is a dance competition television series franchise produced around the world. The format, devised by London Weekend Television and Granada Television^[1] for ITV, has been a prime-time hit in eight different countries, including Britain and subsequently in Italy and Chile. In Australia, where it was titled Torvill and Dean's Dancing on Ice, it was axed after just one series owing to production costs.

Argentina

In Argentina, the show was broadcast on Channel 13 as a segment inside the television program "Showmatch", hosted by Marcelo Tinelli. It started on August 9, 2007 featuring an all-female cast. The segment was called "Patinando por un Sueño" (Ice-Skating for a Dream) due to the titles of the other segments: "Bailando por un Sueño" (Dancing for a Dream) and "Cantando por un Sueño" (Singing for a Dream).

Contestants

Jury votes

       Biggest score.

       Up for eviction and saved by the jury.

       Up for eviction, and saved by the public.

       Up for eviction, and eliminated of the show by the public.

       Replaced by Adabel Guerrero, and had the biggest score.

       Replaced by Adabel Guerrero.

       Replaced by Adabel Guerrero, nominated, and saved by the public.

       Replaced by Virginia Da Cunha.

Jury

The jury was made up of 2 "Celebrity" journalists and 2 personalities:

• Laura Ubfal, a "celebrity" journalist.
• Marcelo Polino, a "celebrity" journalist.
• Reina Reech, a former dancer, a choreographer and an artist director.
• Florencia De La V, a vedette, actress and dancer. Winner and contestant of "Bailando por un Sueño"

The jury's members also studied ice-skating practice and critical theory to support their knowledge.

Australia

Germany

There are two versions of Dancing on Ice in Germany aired on different channels.

RTL Season 1

The German version was aired beginning 9 October 2006 on RTL and hosted by actor Wayne Carpendale and Mirjam Weichselbraun. The show scored average and sometimes even below.

Contestants

Jury

• Hans-Jürgen Bäumler
• Klaus Brück
• Reinhard Ketterer
• Marika Kilius
• Tanja Szewczenko

Pro7 Season 1

Another German Version called Stars auf Eis started on 18 October 2006 on ProSieben, which is hosted by Stefan Gödde and Katarina Witt. The show scored successful and season 2 was announced just after the finals.

Contestants

Jury

• Jeanette Biedermann
• Reinhard Mirmseker
• Daniel Weiss

Pro7 Season 2

The German Version Stars auf Eis is currently airing sincd 13. December 2007 on ProSieben, which is hosted by Oliver Petzokat (Season 1 Winner) and Katarina Witt. Changes include the jury member Kati Winkler (Season 1 winner's partner) and a larger field of contestants. Charlotte Engelhardt (Season 1 Second) acts in assistant role and Elton serves again as comedy sidekick.

Contestants

Nina Bott entered after the first show replacing Janaína Zarrella due to her broken ellbow.

Jury

• Reinhard Mirmseker
• Kati Winkler
• Daniel Weiss

The Netherlands & Belgium

In September 2006 Dutch broadcaster RTL 4 and Belgian broadcaster vtm started a combined Dutch-Belgian version of Dancing On Ice. The show featured 5 Dutch and 5 Belgian stars, who were paired up with several Dutch, Belgian and foreign ice skaters from Holiday on Ice. The show was hosted by Dutchman Martijn Krabbé and Belgian Francesca Vanthielen.

Contestants

Jury

The jury was made up of 3 Dutch and 2 Belgian experts:

• Katrien Pauwels (Belgium), a former figure skater who represented her country at the 1984 and 1988 Winter Olympics.
• Thierry Smits (Belgium), a world-renowned choreographer.
• Jeroen Prins (Netherlands), a former figure skater and currently a judge at international figure skating events. His former coach was Joan Haanappel.
• Joan Haanappel (Netherlands), a former figure skater who is a three time bronze medallist at the European Championships. She represented the Netherlands at the 1956 and 1960 Olympics, where she finished 13th and 5th respectively.
• Sjoukje Dijkstra (Netherlands), the 1964 Olympic Champion of Figure Skating. She also won the silver medal at the Olympics of 1960, as well as gold in 5 European Championships and 3 World Championships.

During RTL4-VTM's broadcast of the Dutch-Belgian version of Dancing on Ice, the Dutch broadcaster SBS6 broadcast a similar programme called Sterren Dansen Op Het IJs (translation: Stars are Dancing on Ice). The show, which ran from August–October 2006 was hosted by Nance Coolen and Gerard Joling. The winner was Hein Vergeer, a former World Champion of speedskating. Singer Jody Bernal came second and former Dutch Idol runner-up Maud Mulders took the bronze. The SBS-show featured only Dutch stars and drew a bigger audience than its Dutch-Belgian counterpart.

The Netherlands

In 2007, a second series of Dancing On Ice aired in the Netherlands. This time the stars were all Dutch (except Dieter Troubleyn, he's Flemish, but is known in the Netherlands).

Contestants

Martijn Krabbé returns to present the show. John Williams (contestant of the first series) will co-host. Joan Haanappel and Sjoukje Dijkstra return in the jury. Chris de la Haye is a new member of the jury.

Norway

In 2007 the first series of Isdans aired in Norway.

Contestants

Poland - Gwiazdy tańczą na lodzie

Jury

• Maria Zuchowicz,
• Igor Kryszałowicz,
• Doda,
• Włodzimierz Szaranowicz.

First edition

First Polish edition started on September 28, 2007 on TVP2

Second edition

Second Polish edition started on March 7, 2008 on TVP2

Third edition

Third Polish edition started on October 3, 2008 on TVP2.

Russia

The Russian version of Dancing on Ice (Танцы на льду) is being aired on Rossiya TV channel since September 2006, and was renamed in 2008 to Star Ice (Звёздный лёд). Its counterpart called Ice Age (Ледниковый период, initially Stars on Ice - Звёзды на льду) is being broadcast on Channel One.

Season 1

Slovakia

The Slovak version of Dancing on Ice (Hviezdy na lade - Stars On the Ice) is aired since September 2006 on TV JOJ.

Turkey

First Edition

The Turkish version of Dancing on Ice is called Buzda Dans (Dance on Ice) started on 8 January 2007 on Show TV. The final was broadcast on March 11, 2007. The winner Zeynep Tokuş received a golden skate shoe trophy and a prize of TRY 100,000 (approximately US$ 71,000 ).

Contestants

Hosts

• Behzat Uygur (son of Nejat Uygur and brother of Süheyl Uygur)
• Gamze Özçelik (actress and model)

Jury

the first version of the Turkish version of the show had 2 ice skating experts, and 4 amateurs in the jury. Figure-skating experts were:

• Zafer Baykal
• Cenk Ertaul

The other jury members were:

• Ayşe Arman (journalist)
• Olcayto Ahmet Tuğsuz (journalist)
• Alinur Velidedeoğlu (advertisor)
• Sema Çelebi (society member)

Second Edition

The Turkish version of Dancing on Ice called Buzda Dans (Ice Dance) was repeated for a second season on 2007/2008 Winter. The jury members who are not experts of ice dance were Olcayto Ahmet Tuğsuz, Hande Ataizi, Ahmet San and Sema Çelebi. The experts in the jury were Cenk Ertaul and Şebnem Ertaul. The winner of the show was former football player İlhan Mansız, the runner-up was actress Yasemin Hadivent. The partner of Mansız was Oľga Beständigová.^[2]

United Kingdom

United States

A similar version, Skating with the Stars, is not based directly on the Dancing on Ice format which was created by ITV because Skating with the Stars was created by BBC.

References

External links

• Australian version
• German version
• Netherlands & Belgium version
• Russian version
• Slovakian version
• UK version