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Could an international special of Strictly work?
Guapacha2007
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I had a dream last night that Strictly did this, I wondered if anyone else thinks it sounds like a good idea, if we had a one off special of Strictly, featuring returning celebrities from our version of Strictly competing against celebrities from Strictly/DWTS from around the world.
We've already had two DWTS celebrities compete in a Christmas special back in 2005, and Ukraine had a special episode featuring celebrities from their version competing against other countries contestants. I really enjoyed (although not everyone else did ;-)) the two Eurovision Dance Contests in 2007 and 2008, if Strictly organised an international special along the lines of a low key, smaller budget Eurovision Dance Contest, do you think there would be any interest. It would be great to see couples from other versions of Strictly, as well as various styles of dance that feature in the other international versions of Strictly that haven't featured in the UK yet.
What does everyone else think?
We've already had two DWTS celebrities compete in a Christmas special back in 2005, and Ukraine had a special episode featuring celebrities from their version competing against other countries contestants. I really enjoyed (although not everyone else did ;-)) the two Eurovision Dance Contests in 2007 and 2008, if Strictly organised an international special along the lines of a low key, smaller budget Eurovision Dance Contest, do you think there would be any interest. It would be great to see couples from other versions of Strictly, as well as various styles of dance that feature in the other international versions of Strictly that haven't featured in the UK yet.
What does everyone else think?
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There's some info on that here, it sounds like it will be an interesting programme:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2014/peoples-strictly
It says there will be four 60 minute episodes, I'm not sure if they are perhaps showing the couples training in the first three programmes, and then them performing in the last episode?
Sorry OP.
Not this year maybe, but they have in previous years (Jerry Hall, Michelle Williams) and have had other 'international' celebs (Peter Schmeichel, Martina Hingis, Nancy Dellolio, Jason Donovan)
Only difficulty I could see is voting- it would have to be all online, unless they have two separate phone lines in America and the UK, and then, somehow, combine them...
That would be a great show to watch, but probably not a great competition. As you say, the voting would be a problem - the imbalance in size of the US and the UK voting pools for a start would give all the US contestants an advantage I would have thought. Also, I'm not sure how the judges scoring would work as DWTS seems to be a very different style to SCD and not strict on the same things etc.
Well, the two Americans finished 5th & 6th in the 2005 Christmas Special hosted here. It would also have to be shown at a time that accommodates both, given that DWTS normally runs at 1-3am in the UK...
The judges are only "nicer" on DWTS because Craig isn't there, and Len is usually the "harsher judge" on DWTS, he's a lot nicer on SCD.
I stand corrected but in my defence all of those people are very well known in the UK.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2008/08_august/08/dance.shtml
Yeah, I was thinking along the lines of EDC
I loved the two contests the BBC did, and was disappointed we never got a third edition, especially after the improvement from 2007 to 2008, and Azerbaijan's plans for hosting 2009 sounded really good. The two contests they did got over 30 million viewers worldwide, so they were doing something right!
Eurovision wouldn't really work since Australia and America are the two biggest exports of Strictly...