agree with you

ITV have "Celebrity Bin man challenge" in the pipeline...

Famous celebrities will work as bin men for a week and then be judged by Barry Mung, council refuse supervisor of 35 years.

The winning celebrities each week will go through to the grand final, where they'll compete for a trophy made of rubbish.

love it...........you know what would be a laff? soapstar chippendales.............and female equivilent of course

ROFLMAO

He didnt he had cue cards and the results were being fed to him on a monitor out of camera shot.
I think the show is wonderful! I have never seen strictly come dancing or any other talent TV show and would not want to. I watch this because I like Ice skating. Constant comparison is just futile, who cares? If you like the programme, post! if you dont the change channels and dont post in a thread about something you dont want to watch or enjoy! Half of this thread is full of criticism and comparison by SCD fans. Hardly reflective of a thread that says Official in its title...
There are loads of dancing on ice threads in the forums so those that believe we should have a section email the mods to set one up and get them all in one place so that dance on ice fans dont have to trawl and search to see each others contributions
My rant is not directed at you pandora33
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I enjoyed it. I love watching Ice Skating, always have there should be more of it on the TV you rarely see it these days

I did a bit of skating myself as a youngster, I was absoloutley dreadful and could barely skate backwards Its very hard and I think all the Celebs did well.

Aww... poor you!
I can do all those things they did lifting their partners up and spinning each other round but... I would have to get fit, and back into shape, and have some practice first to do all that again!

[quote=bobblekat]As an ex-skater I have to say so far the level of skating is alright considering the few weeks of practice they all had, but it's so easy for the females, because their pro partners just literally carry them through the performances and get away with no footwork whatsoever, i.e. they are not actually doing any skating in my eyes!

As a big fan of ice skating (and waiting for the European Championships AND the Olympics, thank you very much!), I think John Barrowman was really really good. He looked very natural on skates and lifted his partner 3 times in 90 seconds. Born to skate, apparently, and very very sexy indeed (even if I'm a woman and he's gay!). David Seaman was impressive but lacked the dancing skills, imho. I'm not judging the females contestants because for them is completely different, I'm more interested in the technical male side.

I liked it

I didn't think I would. I actually knew who the celebrities were and this helped a lot! It works on so many levels- you can appreciate the dancing and the technique and theres always a chance they'll fall on their arse.

It's made me want to go ice skating for the first time in 8 years- theres an ice rink in Leeds at the moment.

Me too! I also loved watching Bonnie, looking very good, she certainly doesn't look her age. Looking at the early clips of Chris and Jayne, I was transported back to those wonderful days when they were at their peak. Magic!

Well next week, Ms Beckwith will most likely be dressed up as a cherry bakewell. Last night was obviously the birthday cake

I was very impressed by Sean Wilson, aka Martin Platt

Torville and Dean haven't changed that much have they?

This show is such a rip off of Strictly Come Dancing. Another boring vote off show. Bring back Blind Date and have a laugh!

I think it's somewhat harder than SCD. I did like Blind date though ...perhaps they could bring that back. Paul O'Grady could host it!!

I prefered it personally. Ice Skating is a hell of alot harder than dancing, if you don't know what your doing and fall you could seriousley hurt yourself.

There's a hell of alot of skill that goes into a routine.

Well, I watched it last night to see John Barrowman. He was very good but the whole show was such an anti-climax. The set reminded me of Blockbusters, the commentary and "instant replay" after each dance lessened the enterainment value, the judges had no personality, the audience were nauseating and Schofield's "presenter" was only there for her hair and forehead.

It strikes me as very unfair that Bonnie and John are in it. They are both stage dancers so already have a big advantage over, say, that man in pink from The Bill.

It was drawn out for far too long - there was no intimacy or warmth between the presenters and the paticipants and I was left feeling distinctly left out. When I watch SCD I get involved and "get to know" the contestants. I doubt this will ever happen with this programme.

The worst thing for ITV is that, if it bombs, they can't really pull it from the schedules. I, for one, will not be watching it again.

It's what ITV do best these days. Looked like they spent £10 on the programme.

people are only complaining because its on ITV, if it was on BBC everyone would be praising it. The programme was very enjoyable and scating is much harder than dancing, so at least the celebs are challenged. The titles, the set everything was very good and not tacky, it could have been on the BBC, if I didn't know I was watching ITV.

give it a break.

The titles? What titles? And the music was dire. If they could have worked a band and singers in it may have been better. I also didn't like the way all the contestants sat on the side instead of going backstage.

I watched it las night and I couldn't believe it that at 7.30 they went off for adverts and said that there were 4 skaters left, and the show still had around 40 minutes left. Each skater only had 90 seconds!

I just thought it looked cheap as it was a rink put in a studio, i thought they could have done each week at an arena where the celebs were practicing, and more people could attend rather than a couple of hundred in the audience.

Hellboy, if it was on BBC I would have slated it too.

very funny

She is out never to return again

I disagree with most of that.

Its not being criticised simply by virtue of being an ITV show. For me, it perfectly illustrated the nauseating, sycophantic, patronising nature of ITV's entertainment productions. Effectively it was an attempted carbon copy of SCD format - so there was no excuse for cheapening it so much. And i don't mean in terms of 'money spent'.

The sense of occassion was over-manufactured. The audience waving their luminous sticks during 'Your Beautiful' was cringeworthy in the extreme. Plus the ITV overdubbing of crowd noises was ludicrous as ever. I thought Soapstar Superstar was bad - but this equalled it. Nothing cheapens a production more than hearing a 'roar' from completely oblivious audience members. In contrast, SCD had a natural energy. Nothing was manufactured or fake.

The set was tacky, the music and presentation even more so. They should have followed SCD in employing a live house band. Even the cut shots to the warm-up room had me looking away in shame. Tacky. Philip was too overbearing and wooden. Holly's role was all but completely unnecessary. Presentation wise it lacked the wit, charm and grace of SCD. There was no sense of suspense in the delivering of judges votes. Torvill & Dean are running out of things to say already.

In typical ITV fashion, much of the focus was on the failings of the contestants. 'Join us after the break and see Bonnie slam her head against the ice'-esque references seemed to be the focus of the show.

I don't buy the argument that because skating is 'harder' that it somehow makes for a more interesting contest. Dancing is a complex business too. The benefit of the dancing is that a new skill is being learned every week. As has been pointed out already, the fact that the skaters on Dancing On ice are effectively learning a new freestyle every week doesn't give the viewer much to grasp on to. On SCD it was new dance style each week - so the challenge wasn't just getting better week on week - it was learning a variation on the art each and every week. I reckon that makes for a 'harder' and more dynamic competition anyday.

All in all it lacked any subtlety. Typical ITV ram-it-down-your-throat-cos-you-are-too-stupid-to-swallow type prodcution values.

I've got no problem with people watching and enjoying this. Each to their own. I just disagree with any contention made that it is actually a 'good' show within its field.

By the way, does anyone have the ratings for last night yet?

Yes but given that you said before it started

If you were really hoping it was going to be bad then perhaps you were actively looking for negative aspects?