Camera action was dreadful missed most of the dances due to them constantly panning out - so much so my eyes kept losing the dancers!

Alot of the dances seemed to suffer by having to "stretch" out the dance to fill the floor.

What is the point in a standing ovation for every dance?

Thank goodness they don't do Wembley every week!

Couldn't agree more. Hated the camera angles and thought the whole thing was overstaged and didn't cater for the audience at home at all.

Totally agree. And appalling sound.

Better than last year we thought.

Can't really remember last year (apart from Robbie Savage) but Wembley really is a dreadful venue for SCD. Far too big.

Terrible and agree with the comments tonight about the camera work. I missed some of the moves and couldn't concentrate on the full flow of the dances. I never know why they do this anyway; have a different venue to go to - stick with what ain't broken.

The dancers got lost in the big space.
I hope they use Blackpool instead next year.

As the last time, the huge space killed the dances, they were lost there. There might have been some good dances, but I would not know.

Money for CIN I presume. Its a dreadful idea though - I would prefer them to be in Blackpool tbh.

It just doesn't work for TV such a big venue - especially live where they can't edit and finesse what we see on the screen.

I thought for all the build up it had been given over the past couple of weeks it was a little disappointing. The camera angles seem to want to enforce the fact it was in an arena and not a studio but unfortunately it was hard to then focus on the dancing because the shots were always panned too far back.

I still appreciate the reason behind doing at Wembley though. Just wish they'd look at certain things a little better for us at home.

I agree.

I agree. It wasn't great this year, but it was definitely an improvement on last!

Yes, definitely not good.

Totally agree and it lacked any warmth tonight imo. I like the intimacy of the studio.

It always lacks atmosphere, a bit like ping pong on a football field.

It's for charidee though, so we mustn't complain....must we?

SCD for this week becomes a show for the folks in Wembley Arena & monies for CIN. I just take it for what it is. As long as Richard goes tonight I won't be much bothered. It is unfair as some dances work so much better in a caven like arena than others do.

The lighting was dreadful - sometimes one could hardly make out the dancers at certain times especially when the cameras panned out

Sod charidee - we had all that cluttering up the telebox last night!

Well, it's one night only and it's for CIN, we'll live

I thought it was great. The point is, it has a different atmosphere, a different feel and it also acts as a carrot for various celebs to aim for around the mid point-because opposite to most posters on this thread, they think its great.

Its only one week in three months and personally I cant quite grasp what is wrong with that given that it provides something spectacularly different.

Each to their own, but I hope the Wembley experience goes on and on.

I also thought it was awful

However, some of the celebs like Denise relaxed a bit more in the scoring bit which was nice. And there were some good dances.

But the sound, the size, shoddy camera work, the over-excitement & over scoring all contributed to a rather poor show.

I liked it because I knew it was going to be rubbish and so I could laugh at it whilst posting in the thread

We did!!


I usually watch but One Direction and Little Mix...thought I was on the wrong chanel so switched over.

Simple fact 1, CIN takes over the studio that SCD normally uses so need to re-locate

Simple Fact 2 Wembley is just too big.

Simple Fact 3, Tower Ballroom Blackpool's website suggests they had a bookings for Tuesday and Thursday as well as tonight. Don't know when those bookings were made, but given that the SCD set is available for rehearsals from Thursday onwards each week and that has camera positions already set up. The BBC/which ever OB company is used, would likely need to have been in Blackpool on Tuesday or Wednesday.

Question 1 : Would Kyle have been prepared to do the show at Blackpool?
Question 2 : Is there a better location that could have been used ?

Awful. The only way they can make it work is to stay on the podium - that's why Michael's dance looked so much more entertaining than Dani's and Louis'.

The judges' marks become more farcical every week.

Of course, I had to watch Michael's dance on iplayer afterwards, since BBC1 Scotland decided to show another channel for a few minutes, so I only saw the last 15 seconds of it.