Originally Posted by
fridgesoup:
“Hi Bella - welcome to the thread 
I watch and enjoy both and enjoy the differences! I think you're bound to prefer the show you know well and already love. Give DwtS a chance!
Why do they have 3 judges & not four?
You might as well ask why do we have four and not three!
Bruno seems to take on a different role as the kinda bad guy in the US version, or that might've just been my impression. Also Len doesn't seem so critical!?
Oh, I see Len in the grumpy/bad role on DwtS and Bruno as much the same on both.”
Len is definitely the "tough judge" on DWTS. He's almost always the lowest score, by a point or two, although this season he seems to have changed it up a bit and is more like the version you've seen on SCD.
Bruno is soft as butter usually on DWTS. Why he and Len switch roles usually between the two shows I have no idea, but they do. Of course they don't have someone like SCD's Craig, who scores amateurs as if they're pros.
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“Who is the female judge?
Carrie Ann Inaba (best google her
. She is also Artem's former squeeze 
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She was a great dancer in her time, but really in a way always was inappropriate for a show about ballroom dancing. To this day nobody really understands why a Fly Girl was cast as a judge. Or if you prefer... "Fook Yu".
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“From what I saw in this show the costumes looked very underpar compared to the work put into them for the UK show.
Hmm, think they're very variable on the US show, but SCD had some shockers last year imo”
Its not even a matter of money with DWTS, its a matter of (occasional) bad taste.
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“They hardly mentioned the personalities of the couples
I think you just get to know them through the training footage which I prefer to the daft VTs we sometimes get. You need to look out for the after show interviews too (there's no equivalent to ITT)”
DWTS definitely milks celeb personalities. Almost to an offensive extent really. The person who didn't think so must have just seen one episode where maybe it was a bit lighter, but usually its not. Its just that the show hosts don't really directly talk about it. But the canned footage more than makes up for it (as do media interviews).
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“there doesn't seem to be that comedic element that there is on Strictly
Well, be thankful for small mercies! Seriously, though, sometimes SCD tips over into cringey end-of-pier panto territory and DwtS has a more evening, adult feeling to it. On the other hand, I think some of the folk - celebs especially - take things waaaay too seriously on DwtS (themselves in particular! )”
Again, I think it may have been a case of this person seeing some unrepresentative episode. Because a LOT of the routines are comedic. Really its based on the contestant. If the contestant IS a comedian, or is an old person, or someone "quirky", then the pro often choreographs comedic dances. Unless its someone partnered with Derek Hough. He does a bunch of comedic routines every season even when his partners doesn't fit that parameters as easily.
Unless that person is speaking of DWTS not having the equivalent to Bruce Forsyth's bad over the top jokes. That's true---it doesn't. Tom Bergeron is one of the funniest people on the planet, but he doesn't rely on groanworthy one-liners like Forsyth. But despite how funny Bergeron is, I suppose some might read him as "more serious" in comparison.
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“Remember, in any game of Dancing v. Strictly Top Trumps, DwtS has Tom Bergeron! 
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Nuff said.
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