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“Chris1964
........ What they do next year may make or break the show.”
You speak a lot of sense.
All these ideas about studios and format are fine, but they're all a bit like rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic unless the BBC really grasps the nettle and does a complete refresh of the programme instead off timidly faffing around at the edges like they did this season.
Their starstruck, fawning attitude to Forsyth is to blame for the debacle that is Series 7, but the rot set in during Series 5 when it truly started to become the Brucie Show.
Their misjudgement of what makes the programme such a sucess and why people tune in is breathtaking.
Beneath the sequins is a dance competition holding everything up, and until they understand that, nothing will improve.
We don't need megalomaniac comedians running the show, we don't need diva-like judges running off to the press every 5 minutes (as they did with Sargentgate), we don't need the Beeb to employ a PR company to tell us that everything in the Strictly Family Garden is rosy and that we should be grateful that we don't need to look at the wrinkled face of a properly qualified judge anymore.
The majority of pro dancers, and their celebrity partners, deserve great credit for coming up with the goods week after week in spite of an atmosphere so horrible that it oozes through the screen every Saturday night.
They need to get a presenter who can be an objective chairman/woman and who is capable of holding a live show together and judges who can judge.
They need to stop manipulating their viewers and treating them like children, and give proper respect to the votes of both the judges and the public.
More than that, they need to ensure that EVERYONE taking part in the show knows that they are a cog in a wheel, not a star and that this is an ensemble piece where noone's contribution is greater than anyone elses - it's this imbalance of egos that has caused this series (and last) to become so bad tempered.
Back to basics, please BBC.
That way. Strictly might be able to hold up it's head again.