Actually, and digressing so please forgive me everyone, with all the technology out there you would think they could allow us to choose our view of the dance. I would like to see their feet more often.

is it cheating if I do another list of 3........

No ok then

1) camera man cutting of dancers feet and the running around the dancer in the opposite direction

2) showing the guest singer when there is beautiful dancing going on - we can listen to the singer, we dont need to see him!

3) Bruce - please can someone get him a one way taxi home

Good idea!

Okay, my next three...

Bruce. It is time.

VTs not from the training room.

The judges not being allowed to say what they think without interruption (don't mind the booing! )

In that case I choose the on-the-roving-cameraman-cam (with added Vapouriser button)

Most of the things listed already plus....

1. Tess's Tower. It's cold, sterile. I miss the colour and cosiness of the Tesspit.

2. I'm still not into half the couples being announced safe, then returning to learn the fate of the rest later. Do it all in one go - with no red spotlights.

3. The dance-off. This has been a bugbear of mine ever since it was brought it. Get rid. Yes, even if it had saved Jimi Mistry. Get rid.

That's my main complaint. I was especially angry when Andrea Begley was on. With her sight problems she probably couldn't see what was going on on the dance floor or who or what the applause was for.

Can I do 3 more as well?

The VTs - how could I have forgotten the VTs

The (mostly) 3rd-rate 'Celebrity' guests on the Sunday show (we used to get proper bona-fide stars, now we get JLS and Il Divo for goodness sake)

Brucie - and I feel horribly disloyal having been a child of the 70s and loved the Gen Game - but it is time to bow out gracefully - it's becoming sad and embarassing at times

That could be useful and satisfying

And another three:

- All involved referring to a Sunday show. We all know there isn't one and we don't need intelligence to be insulted.

- The'Guess Who' segment on ITT, it's inane.

- Winking at camera. Any person, celeb, pro, presenter or judge who does so should be removed immediately.

1. Bruce - please let this be his last series. I've gone from cringeing at his schtick to now feeling quite on edge to see how badly he'll mess up/talk over the judges/make inappropriate comments.

2.The comedy VTs: - I'm much more interested in seeing their training footage - I want to see the process of learning to dance, not watch a couple messing about in a diving tank or whatever. If I were someone like Ashley or Patrick, who already have busy shooting schedules, I'd be livid that some of my rehearsal time was being wasted on having to film rubbish that has nothing to do with learning to dance.

3. Forcing ridiculous concepts on dancers rather than just let the dancing speak for itself.

I'm going to have one more then...

4. Rubbish pro dances. God only knows what that effort was supposed to be on the results show this week. It was so bad I had to look away. I remember the days when the pro dances were a joy (Rebel Yell Jive?). If they aren't going to make an effort then I'd rather they didn't bother. Or they could just shows clips of old routines choreographed by someone who has taste.

1 - Inappropriate musical choices, it can absolutely ruin a routine

2 - the perpetual "persuading" of the viewing public that Sunday's show isn't pre-recorded on Saturday night, drives me insane.

3 - the producers' who believe that they have to "youf up" the programme to appeal to some mystical younger viewer by introducing ridiculous theme weeks and stupidly inane VTs.

1. VTs

2. Bruce


3. The music

1. The dance-off. Pointless waste of bloody time that robs the show of the vital spark of unpredictability right when it needs it most - also never fails to stir up bad feeling and get someone branded "teachers pet".

2. The blatant "scheduling" of when 10s get given out, where the judges refuse to give 10s to dances that deserve it early in the series, and refuse to NOT give them to dances that clearly don't by the end.

3. The hiding of the Man In The Hat. BRING HIM BACK. HIS PEOPLE NEED HIM.

This is where the Red Button stream would come in - I think that one year they did broadcast such a stream with fixed cameras.

1.Len 'I'm always right' Goodman's appalling behaviour towards Craig.

2 . Ridiculous music choices for the dances.

3 . The studio audience.

1. Anton's Latin.

2. Choice of music these days, sorry Dave Arch, it's not your fault.

3. VTs, supposed to be comedy, but not that funny. More dance please!

1) Inconsistent judging

2) Standing ovations

3) It's a toss up between stupid VTs and the questions from Tess in the Tess Pit.

1. Len.
2. The crazy camera work that doesn 't allow you to properly watch a dance.
3. The dance off.

Inconsistent judging/the gawd awful choice of music and the two left feet chuffers that they save week after week...lol

1. And my pet hate this series. Dancing to the goddamned camera rather than with each other. Apart from when they're in that extreme-leaning hold in a waltz and have the camera in his/her face, which is just about acceptable to me. Any other time it bugs me, and more so when the dance is supposed to be about connecting with each other. I suppose during the Charleston it's acceptable too, but even that's supposed to be about having fun with each other, isn't it?

2. During a pro/celeb dance, pointing the camera at the pro only. We're supposed to be watching the celeb or the celeb and pro, not the pro alone.

3. Music choices.

Funny, I only noticed this happening for the first time on Saturday. I think it was during Ben's Charleston.

1. Bruce he really has to go. I was sure I was witnessing him having a stroke on Saturday.

2. Dance off. Judges had their say. They should not get two bites of the cherry

3. Singing acts bringing their own dancers.

4. Inappropriate music/clothing for a dance.

5. Completely irrelevant VT's.

This was 5 things right

1. Len (plus Len's lens)

2. Bruno's antics, inappropriate comments and the fact his legs are always spread wide open on the aforementioned Len's lens

3. The truly awful inappropriate music and themes that are ruining the dances this year.

1. The camerawork. We need to see the whole of the couple at all times, preferably without hundreds of jump-cuts as you need to refocus on the aspect you were looking at before.

2. The music. The music makes the dance. This show needs a Victor Sylvester-style band. Everyone commented on *that* paso doble. I'd love to see some Strauss Family music used for the Waltzes. It doesn't have to be every dance, but certain ballroom dances absolutely beg for something other than forcing a pop song from 4/4 time to 3/4 time just so it can be used for a waltz.

3. The producers. They want the audience to boo. They give celebrities a "role" which ends up becoming more important than the dances. And no doubt they insist on the stupid music choices and costumes too - Mark's Starship Trooper costume (and music for the dance) being a perfect example of how they can make the celebrity look pretty stupid.

This ^^^^^^^^



There are three who do it regularly. Drives me insane and detracts from feel of the dance. Ben was one.