I would prefer it if they brought back the live results show on a Saturday together with a dance off. I think the group/ professional dances and celebrity guest part were recorded whilst it is off air during Casualty (it must have been done like this before as one year Robbie Williams was on the SCD Saturday results show and X Factor on the same evening!!)

The dance off should be brought back as the public vote is becoming a popularity contest whereby the judges could bring a bit of dance ability if they judge after the dance off!

With regard to other programmes being recorded where they were supposed to be live ... you only have to watch the local news on ITV and ITV 1 HD. Our local news (Meridian) is split over more than one geographical area so the presenter is reading out the local news for the Kent/Sussex area (on HD) at the same time as reading the Hampshire/Dorset news (non HD)! Same for the weather!!

Except that people would then be back to complaining that the judges are saving their favourites rather than what the viewer perceives to be the better dancer, or that the wishes of the voting public are being ignored.

True, True!!!

To be fair to this series, there has been more accord between the judges and the voting public than for years - maybe all the way back to series 2?

The only difference between the top 7 on the judges leaderboard in week one and the top 7 we actually had on Saturday was that Robbie (week one 8th place) was exchanged for Rory (week one, 7th place) and that was the only difference.

Yes, Holly has been in the bottom 2 twice - but she has been kept by the combined votes - if she had been kept twice in a dance off I think she would be at the beginning of a backlash There have been no big shocks (however much they try to whip up the Lulu leaving shokka) and the 4 couples who have been variously top of the leaderboard have never had a sniff of the bottom 2.

Be interesting to see if it continues at the pointy end of things.

Yes, and you can find out the result of who went out (on a Saturday night before the aired Sunday show) right here on this Digital Spy SCD forum.
I thought everyone knew that it wasn't live, you can tell when you look at the same dressed audience members from a Sat to a Sun (which obv them means it's just a Sat show split into two segments).

bring back the dance of i say

whose?

I guess the people that think the show is recorded on a sunday are the same people that get excited about winning the Nigerian Lottery .

What surprised me is people claiming Robbie got sympathy votes If they do not realise voting closes no later than the end of Merlin what hope is there

My Hubby said to me just before the results show " I hope the BBC say something about it being reccorded ".... as ( we now know ) there are those who don't realise it isn't live and will see Robbie laughing and joking, when in fact I'm sure he was at home devastated

Yeah, the people with fairies at the bottom of the garden...

The whole results programe has seemed pretty pointless since they did away with the dance off. It is about 27 minutes of padding the programe out and 3 minutes of results

Why do you think it's a swizz?

They did the dance off before.....

I hardly take any notice of the audience members, i watch the dancers.....

Didnt anyone else think the sunday results show was recorded then too??

I hadn't considered it from the youngsters' pov and so can see a Sunday show is a good idea. But I agree with you in hating the pretence.

As for Gary Speed's death, that thought crossed my mind too. The whole show would have to be dropped (unthinkable) or the family of the deceased bulldozed into agreeing with transmission (unforgivable).

Forgot to add that I thought the classic this weekend was making Erin and Anton turn up a day early in their Sunday night dance clothes and hang around behind Tess being ignored.

All because they didn't have enough bodies because of the changing for the Swingathon!

Exactly! Your entire post is spot on as far as I'm concerned. There was a huge fuss made the first time they did the Sunday night show, with many people saying the BBC were 'cheating' them in some way. It's just TV.

On a similar note, Jools Holland's Hootananny (spelling?) isn't live on New Year's Eve. About ten years ago, David Grey was on it, but I know for a fact he was in Dorset at the time because he and some friends had rented a holiday cottage owned by someone I know. So the big countdown to midnight and the new year is all bull.

Now that completey befuddled my friend who was convinced all these slebs and music stars from far and wide flocked to TV centre for their New Year jollies until one act was simultaneously on ITV as well

Me, my bubble burst much earlier in life when I heard that Slade recorded their Christmas hit in an August heat wave

Excellent post - have been meaning to post something along these lines whenever yet another post bleating about the evil invention that is the sunday show appears on the forum.


Never ceases to make me laugh...


My mother once asked me why VIPs gave up their new year's eve to perform on Jools. Breaking the news to her felt like telling a child santa isn't real...

Absolutely right. I far preferred it later on a Saturday night, and with a dance off. I wouldn't mind quite so much if the padding was a nice warm 15 tog but I think it's generally about 4.

I love the word swizz. When I was a little girl my Mum always used to say the presents in Father Christmas's grotto were a 'swizz' ! Ever since then, and it's many years ago, anything we thought would be good but turned out to be disappointing has always been a swizz, in our family.

Awwwww bless . I wouldn't be surprised if the Hootananny was recorded in the summer too, but I think it's about October time. (I could be completely wrong)

I regularly win that, I have sent all my bank details but haven't received my winnings yet.