Just a week to go and having seen some of the training footage I am up to an 8! Jimmi is looking fab and I can't wait to see Felicity in action!

Full on, bursting at the seams 10!!!

Me too, am actually saying out loud that there's only 1 Strictly-less Saturday night left. So excited!

yes im very excited i will say about 9 at the minute though because i know that we have another week to go but this time next week or on friday should i say im going to be so excited it will be like 20/10 haha. !

Back on the 5th Sept, I posted a score of 6.0 going on 6.5, sadly I now feel that I must revise that figure down to 2.5 - 3.0

I really cannot summon up much enthusiasm now

That's probably best. These forums will be full of the 9/10s feeling deflated, while those on feeling humdrum will be beaming all over the place

8/10. Good selection of celebrities. I groaned when I saw that Pamela Stephenson and Patsy Kensit were involved, but after seeing their training footage I hate to say it but I quite warmed to them. Younger viewers won't know much about her but Pamela Stephenson was white hot in in her younger days, both in terms of looks and talent and she's got some good moves.

Jimi Mistry looks to be a natural latin dancer, and of course there is the delectable Miss Kendal....

i'm really excited at the prospect of felicity & vincent - she isn't afraid of hard work and you can tell she's desperate to win it and her & vincent appear to have chemistry.

8/9 I like the range of celebs and feel like it good be a few peoples' games this year. Really looking forward to it.

I wish it was on tonight!!!!

Changing my 7.5 to a 1534!

You guys are way ahead of me - thought I'd go online tonight to find out when it's starting and gather there's already been a launch show! How did I miss that?

There are clips on the BBC site of the celebs and pros on the red carpet, the couples reactions backstage to finding out their pairings and training diaries for the majority of couples (the rest to come next week) - they should help you catch up, and they're generally quite funny. And there are clips of the show on YT

Same here.

At least there'll be something decent on the telly on a Saturday evening after all the dross over the last few months.

Can't wait for ITT either. I just hope I can get home from work early enough to watch it (I don't finish work until 5.30pm and my bus journey takes at least 45 minutes depending which bus route I use).

Hmmm, at the moment 3, but I felt that way last year too, and by mid-series I was up to 10, just a bit of a slow starter, me.

Getting really excited now I've put ITT on series record on my V+ box!

As somebody said on Twitter - 4 sleeps to go!

Well for me all the couples seem interesting this year so I can't wait.

I think I'm changing my 5 to 2 after seeing the launch show

I was about 8/10, but just hit 10/10 realising that the set will probably be put up tomorrow to prepare for the first bunch of dress rehearsals.

0 :yawn::yawn::yawn::yawn:

The set is already up, there's a photo on Twitter (and in the Twitter Pictures thread on here) of Aliona, Ola, Flavia, Katya and Kristina at rehearsals for their pro number

Pamela looking hot in Australia when she was 21, and she mentions having had dance lessons as a child. Do lessons count if they were 50 years ago?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZO1EYs_ZzU

And back on topic, my excitement level has crept up from 0 through 2 to about 4 now.

Watched that video - what a beauty in her youth - brains too. But I wish she would now get her hair restyled - - long and straight is not a good look for a sixty plus.

On topic - I'm trying hard to be enthusiastic but it just isn't happening - perhaps the excitement will kick in once the series starts.

A launch show followed by the gradual release of clips and vids has done nothing to incite interest. I preferred the old format.

I'm so excited that someone on another board has just pointed out to me that today is only Thursday! I did start off knowing it was Thursday because it's recycling day, but some where along the line this morning it became Friday! That's the second time this week I've done that!