Thanks for posting the links. It's great to see the whole show, including comments and backstage chat, as well as the dancing.



Spoiler tags probably unnecessary but don't want to spoil it for anyone, even if it was only a song choice!

Google News has flagged up this:

"Carrie Ann Inaba hosted Wednesday night's 2008 Asian Excellence Awards... Cheryl Burke was honored at the ceremony as Favorite TV Personality, while gold medalist Kristi Yamaguchi received the special Inspiration Award."

Full report:
http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b132...lence_Dow.html

Intro and Marissa Jaret Winokur with Tony Dovolani - Tango

Cristian de la Fuente with Cheryl Burke - Viennese Waltz

Kristi Yamaguchi with Mark Ballas - Viennese Waltz

Mario with Karina Smirnoff - Foxtrot

Shannon Elizabeth with Derek Hough - Tango

Marissa Jaret Winokur with Tony Dovolani - Rhumba

Cristian de la Fuente with Cheryl Burke - Samba. This is where Cristian injures his arm

Kristi Yamaguchi with Mark Ballas - cha cha cha

Mario with Karina Smirmoff - Mambo

Shannon Elizabeth with Derek Hough - Mambo

Jason Taylor with Edyta Sliwinska - Paso Doble

Recap

Jason and Edyta's first dance - the Quickstep is missing at the moment - hope Diane puts that up later today.

FT

This is Julianne's single - I like it

Julianne Hough - That Song In My Head

Is there no end to this girl's talents?

Some news reports on last night's show:
http://news.google.com/news?ned=uk&h...nG=Search+News

Not a huge number of reports this morning. Maybe it's still a bit early.

Most comprehensive review is again a piece by Sarah Kelber of The Baltimore Sun:
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/ente...formances.html

And there's a little piece about Paula Abdul (speculation on whether she could be a DWTS contestant), and Bruno and Simon Cowell (all old chums):
http://www.myfoxny.com/myfox/pages/E...Y&pageId=7.5.1

Here's Jason & Edyta's quickstep:

Jason & Edyta Quickstep

It was worth waiting for!

Thanks for that FT - definitely the best dance of the night

Len certainly had some excitement during the evening

Intro

Encore with Jason & Edyta

Part 3 with Kenny Mayne plus Def Leppard with the Pros

Part 4 - More with Kenny Mayne

Part 5 - Def Leppard again!

Part 6 - Who Goes Home?

Thanks to Diane

I just started watching this show at week 5 and have been enjoying it, maybe a bit more than I enjoyed the UK show last time round.

I caught up with week 6 last night and just couldn't resist watching bits of week 7.



Thanks for taking the time to give us links for extra news snippets.

TVGasm website for DWTS recaps...Very funny and well worth the read.

http://www.tvgasm.com/shows/dancing-with-the-stars/

Apologies if common knowledge already, I've only just found it and ended up reading all the recaps from this season and last.

This turned up on Google News:

"What happens to the costumes after the show? Randall Christensen, the designer, sells the garments on his Web site. Christensen issued a press release before this season began, and it said dresses from Dancing With the Stars have become available online for purchase to dancing enthusiasts at his Web site, a trend he intends to continue. Right now, only dresses for seasons two through five are available, although many have been sold. Those from season five are priced between about $2,000 and $5,000 each".

Article:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24456940/

Randall Christensen's website is here:
http://randalldesigns.net/

There's an illustrated catalogue of dresses still available from season 5 on this (huge) page:
http://randalldesigns.net/sp-bin/spi...E=59&CATALOG=5

Would it fit? I notice that all Julianne Hough's costumes are size S, and Mel-B's are all size M/L.

It seems to me that quite a lot are "still for sale". I wonder if the ones being sold are actually copies that he's selling.

Plenty of reviews of Monday night's show here:
http://news.google.com/news?ned=uk&h...nG=Search+News

Sarah Kickler Kelber's comprehensive Baltimore Sun review is here:
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/ente...formances.html

Sarah's reviews tend to be very objective - she describes in some detail what happened, and what the judges said, but doesn't give much in the way of personal opinion.

For something more opinionated (though possibly not for fans of Christian), try the LA Times:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/show...g-with-th.html

DWTS was featured on an episiode of Oprah which aired in the UK last Thursday, orry I never mentioned it to you guys before but I got a bit sidetracked by other stuff (i.e. work!)

There is a website link about it here
www2.oprah.com/tows/pastshows/200802/tows_past_20080221.jhtml

Sorry for delay, been away for the Bank Holiday weekend. Here are the links for Week 8:

Intro plus Kristi Yamaguchi with Mark Ballas dancing the Quickstep

Mario with Karina Smirnoff dancing the Waltz

Marissa Jaret Winokur with Tony Dovolani dancing the Foxtrot

Jason Taylor with Edyta Slawinska dancing the Tango

Cristian de la Fuente with Chery Burke dancing the Tango

Kristi Yamaguchi with Mark Ballas dancing the Samba

Mario with Karina Smirnoff dancing the Jive

Marissa Jaret Winokur with Tony Dovolani dancing the Mambo

Jason Taylor with Edyta Slawinska dancing the Samba

Cristian de la Fuente with Cheryl Burke dancing the Mambo

Thanks to Diane

There's a review of last night's results show (which contains the spoiler!), by Sarah Kelber of the Baltimore Sun here:
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/ente...d_an_elim.html

Her post (without revealing the result) begins with this:

"We've got two hours of Dancing With the Stars tonight so the show can celebrate its 100th episode. The first hour features the judges' favorite dances from the first five seasons. No. 10 is Kelly Monaco's freestyle from the season one's week six. No. 9 is Sabrina Bryan's paso doble from season five. No. 8 is Emmitt Smith's cha-cha-cha from season three. No. 7 is Apolo Anton Ohno's seaon four quickstep. No. 6 is Joey Fatone's season four jive. No. 5 is Helio Castroneves' season five quickstep (in the giant yellow suit). No. 4 is Drew Lachey's freestyle from season two's finale. No. 3 is Stacy Keibler's season two samba. No. 2 is Mel B's paso doble from season five. No. 1 is Mario Lopez's tango from season three."

Sarah also reveals that it was Tom's birthday yesterday.

The TV schedule for UKTV Gold for this Friday (at least on the Sky on-screen program guide), says we've only got a 1 hour results show. I wonder if that's wrong.

Week 8 Results

Pro Dance and Recap

Part 2 - Julianne and Apollo

Part 3 - Mario Lopez and the cast of A Chorus Line

Part 4 - Mel & Maks

Part 5 - First ones safe

Part 6 - Who Goes Home?

Thanks to Diane

Sorry everyone - Diane didn't put links up for the first part of the show, but I've found it by cpgcorner. So here is the Countdown of the Greatest Dances:

Kelly Monaco with Alec Mazo, followed by Sabrina Bryan with Mark Ballas

Cheryl Burke with Emmitt Smith followed by Apollo Anton Ohno with Julianne Hough

Joey Fatone with Kym Johnson followed by Helio Castroneves with Julianne Hough

Drew Lachey with Cheryl Burke

Stacey Keibler with Tony Dovolani followed by Mel B and Maksim Chmerkovskiy

Mario Lopez with Karina Smirnoff

The pro dancers in the results show on DWTS a couple of weeks ago included someone from "So You Think You Can Dance".

According to the report below, the Australian version of DWTS may be taking the top 4 dancers from their version of "So You Think You Can Dance".

And Gordon Ramsey will not be taking part. He's too busy, and doesn't need the money or the publicity. But they were keen to try to get him....

Report:
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sto...006022,00.html

An interesting interview article with Shirley Ballas where she talks a little about Mark, Julianne and Derek's upbringing, amongst other things. It's about 5 years old, but worth a read if you are a fan of any of the 3...


http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache...nk&cd=11&gl=us

Thanks for bringing this to our attention sazziep. It seems odd to hear Derek and Julianne referred to as "these 2 US children". Makes them sound like strays or something.

I always wondered how it worked with Julianne and Derek being away from their family, living over here. All makes sense now. Shirley Ballas must be so proud the three of them have all done so well.

Early morning (their time) reviews of last night's show:
http://news.google.com/news?ned=uk&h...nG=Search+News

Sarah Kelber's definitive Baltimore Sun review:
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/ente...formances.html

I've noticed there are always a lot more reviews as the day goes on.

I noticed this in one early post:
"The pressure is on. You could tell because Pretty Boy Jason was stumping for votes backstage like Barack Obama, lifts were banned and Len Goodman challenged the dancers to give their performances more 'welly.' I'm still not sure what that means, but it sounds good."

Len used the term "welly" in last week's show, and Tom didn't quite know how to react, and said something like "let's move on". I think that Americans don't know what welly means, and probably assume it's one of Len's frequent sexual innuendos.

For the benefit of those who don't know, it comes from "Wellington" boot. Wellington was a famous English general and Prime Minister. Here's a sort of definition of "welly":
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-giv2.htm

Intro

Jason Taylor with Edyta Sliwinska dancing the Foxtrot

Marissa Jaret Winokur with Tony Dovolani dancing the Quickstep

Cristian de la Fuente with Cheryl Burke dancing the Waltz

Kristi Yamaguchi with Mark Ballas dancing the Tango

Len visits all the dancers

That's all I've got so far. More to follow....

Jason Taylor with Edyta Sliwinska dancing the Paso Doble

Marissa Jaret Winokur with Tony Dovolani dancing the Rumba

Cristian de la Fuente with Cheryl Burke dancing the Samba

Kristi Yamaguchi with Mark Ballas dancing the Jive

Enjoy! Thanks to Diane as always

Intro

Encore with Kristi and Mark

Thriller Tribute

Kids Dance Off

Kids Results

Who Goes Home?

Thanks to Diane