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Feel bad for the Friday contestants
TLC1098
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You have to admit last night Fridays dancers were completely buried by the judges scores.
On Friday the highest score was 7 but last night 8 and 9,s were thrown everywhere but my question is we're Fridays undermarked or were the ones who they knew would be good deliberately kept for Saturdays show?
On Friday the highest score was 7 but last night 8 and 9,s were thrown everywhere but my question is we're Fridays undermarked or were the ones who they knew would be good deliberately kept for Saturdays show?
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I hope it will balance out next week when everyone dances at the same time.
"The BBC move in mysterious ways."
No they don't, you sussed it out. If you think "ratings," it will become clear to others immediately.
There's not a lot of competition on a Friday night on ITV. So the BBC could have expected reasonable ratings for a one hour show. This was as much " a promo" for those viewers not as interested in it, whose reaction might be, "is it on again?" So being aware of the Friday show, by possibly finding it "on," they might add extra numbers to the Saturday ratings.
They needed "the big guns" for Saturday night as they're up against the X-Factor.
Those appearing on Friday will have suffered as the judges didn't want to hand out some really good scores in case it left them no "wiggle room," for any better performances on Saturday.
Saturday shows also clash slightly with football on Sky Sports as the second half of late kick off games clash with Strictly generally last night it was Aston Villa Vs Newcastle.
They see their main competition, as it is, ITV.
I know I'm very much in the minority but I completely disagree about Judge Rinder!
Yes he was entertaining I guess but much of what he was doing was just 'performing' & pulling silly faces rather than trying to execute a proper dance routine, imo at least, for what it's worth!!
I thought he was marked fairly & certainly didn't deserve higher scores!!
Tameka & Anastacia were both very much overmarked to me however!!
However only K&K made the final so only 1/4 of the finalists came from the Friday show.
Caroline danced on Friday two years ago (getting a 6 from Craig for her CCC, lol) and all the finalists except Abbey danced on Friday three years ago (and only Abbey did better then their scores).
Spot on as ever !
True, plus the odd "fascinating" person, like Ed Balls.
Danny, Louise, Daisy and Will only really stood out for me, but then obv Ore, Laura, Claudia and Naga also showed some varying degrees of potential as well. I thought Robert and Greg's dances were entertaining, but I felt it was all a bit messy and frantic to make an solid opinion. They had gusto (as Bruno said for one) but, yeah, not sure. I hope Greg gets better, as I want Natalie to at least get half way this year if not further.
I agree with all of this. I feel I'm in the grumpy corner by saying I didn't particularly enjoy Judge Rinder's performance but I didn't. And yes, Tameka and Anastacia were overmarked - particularly Anastacia. She's a lovely person but that dance was in no way worth those marks.