Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman present a night to remember on the Strictly Come Dancing ballroom floor. The competition is at melting point as the six surviving couples pivot, twist and turn to keep the glitter ball trophy in their sights.

Voting lines open at the end of the show; once the judges' scores have been added to viewer votes, the two lowest-scoring couples will perform again in the dreaded dance-off during Sunday's results show.

Dances in spoiler:



The Swing-a-thon also returns to the show this week. For those who don't know, it's a Jive/Lindy Hop endurance-type contest where all the couples dance on the floor at once and which lasts for up to three minutes. The judges call out couples one by one who then leave the floor until only one is left. The winner gets 6 points added to their total score, second place 5 points, and so on.

Enjoy the quarter-finals! We're winding down to the finish now...

No Bruce whoop whoop.

Waiting with baited breath for the dress run pics

Me too, the girls always look gorgeous.

I hope Patrick's rumba is better than his own reservations suggest.

I think there are a few dances I will be watching from behind a cushion holding my breath this week & Patrick is one of them.

Thanks for the thread, and for saving me the bother of having to go look up the time of the show.

Tonight will be the first test, for me anyway, of the changes to the DS forum format. Can't help feeling it will be a bit harder to 'watch and browse'.

Yeah, although I am using the fan skin 'DS Old-Style' on chrome (thanks Pet Monkey), I think I may close the browser and just concentrate on the TV screen tonight.

Potential dance order (per blog)

Susanna
Abbey
Patrick
Natalie
Ashley
Sophie

Well, it cost me my entire Saturday and the feeling in my lower legs, but I've completed my Christmas shopping.

Looking forward to Abbey and Sophie most of all tonight, but it's going to be a crucial show for sure.

Wow bravo you. I have done everything online so far...dead chuffed.

Hello All, looking forward to no Bruce tonight, and I've managed to not be late for a change

Evening - anyone else get nervous before their favourite dances - or is it just me!

Many thanks for the thread.

I really don't like the new forum format.

I am however really looking forward to the dancing.

Evening Strictlyites!

Ooh an exciting evening ahead me thinks!

Got to say, I somewhat nervous though, hard to say who will go tonight

Evening all I too am happy for a Bruce-less week

Good evening all.

Thanks for the thread.

Hope that SEB does a murder on the dancefloor routine in the swingathon tonight (lol).

I don't have TV (usually go to my friend's house for SCD but she's at a party tonight, bah!) so I'm relying on you guys for all info until it goes up on iplayer. Be my eyes, please?

Totally agree about the forum, I don't know if it's not broke don't fix it

Ahh so excited that the show is finally coming on.

Hello Everyone!

Why don't you watch live on the i-player DB?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/tv/bbc_...ndon/watchlive

Hello all.

Does anyone have a cure for black right hand stripe of death?

I've looked, switched the computer off and on (always important) can't find anything to cure it. Just the whole right edge chopped off.

Why am I watching Tom Jones singing?

You can watch it live on Iplayer

Evening all.

¼ final ⌚

confused me an' all.