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Strictly Come Dancing - Wikipedia. Strictly Come Dancing (informally known as Strictly) is a British television dance contest, featuring celebrity contestants, with professional dance partners competing in a ballroom and Latin dance competition.
Each couple is scored out of 1. The title of the show suggests a continuation of the long- running series Come Dancing, with an allusion to the film Strictly Ballroom. The format has been exported to over 4.
Strictly Dance Fever. The show is currently presented by Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman.
The show has run on BBC One since 1. May 2. 00. 4, primarily on Saturday evenings with a following Sunday night results show (with certain exceptions) and with its high viewing figures Strictly Come Dancing has become a significant programme in British popular culture. The thirteenth series ended on 1. December 2. 01. 5. A further eleven stand- alone Christmas specials have also been produced, in consecutive years from 2.
Nine charity specials have also been produced since 2. Since the fourth series, the show has also been aired in high definition on BBC HD, and BBC One HD from series 8. On 7 November 2. 01. Sir Bruce Forsyth would be retiring from presenting the main series. While intended to return as host for each Children in Need and Christmas special, he only did both in 2.
Children in Need in 2. Christmas special[8]) and was thereafter unable to appear due to ill health. Forsyth died on 1.
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August 2. 01. 7.[9]Development[edit]Producer Richard Hopkins, who had produced the first UK series of Big Brother, unsuccessfully pitched the idea of a modern Come Dancing to the BBC under the title of Pro- Celebrity Dancing in 2. Watch Flags Of Our Fathers Online Free 2016. Later, entertainment executive Fenia Vardanis also suggested reviving Come Dancing, so Jane Lush, the then head of BBC Entertainment, put Hopkins and Vardanis together to develop the show.[1. Hopkins then called in Karen Smith, who had just produced Comic Relief Does Fame Academy for BBC One and The Games for Channel 4, to help lead the development of the show and launch the series.
Smith was the show running Executive Producer of the first three series, and of sister show It Takes Two.[1. She then took the role of Creative Director of BBC Entertainment whilst still overseeing series 4 and 5.[1. Hopkins later took the format to America himself when the BBC dismissed the idea of selling it abroad, as they felt it was too British.[1. From series 1 to 1. Sir Bruce Forsyth and Tess Daly presented the pro- celebrity ballroom dancing competition.
From series 8 to 1. Forsyth only presented the main show and was replaced for the results show by Claudia Winkleman, at which point Daly assumed Forsyth's role as main presenter and Winkleman assumed Daly's role as co- presenter.
Winkleman has joined Daly as full- time co- presenter for series 1. Forsyth's departure after the 2. Through telephone voting, viewers vote for who they would like to be in the next round, the results of the poll being combined with the ranking of the judges. For example, with ten contestants left, the judges' favourite would receive ten points, second favourite nine points, and so on, and similarly with the viewers' rankings. The bottom ranked couple gets one point.[1.
The profits from the telephone lines were donated to Sport Relief in series 1, and to Children in Need from series 2 to 5. The show is broadcast live on BBC One on Saturday evenings, and is currently presented by Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman (however Zoë Ball covered for Winkleman for a number of weeks in 2.
Sir Bruce Forsyth presented the live shows alongside Daly from 2. He was to continue to present special editions of the show.[1.
For some of the second series, Natasha Kaplinsky stood in temporarily for Daly while she took maternity leave; Claudia Winkleman hosted the results show and editions that Forsyth had missed between 2. The judging panel initially consisted of Bruno Tonioli, Arlene Phillips, Len Goodman and Craig Revel Horwood. Alesha Dixon took Phillips' place from series 7 to 9, after which she left the programme to judge Britain's Got Talent which led retired ballerina Darcey Bussell to replace her; Bussell remains a judge alongside Tonioli and Revel Horwood.[1. Tonioli commutes weekly between Hollywood and London to judge both the American and British versions of the show simultaneously. Each judge gives the performance a mark out of ten, giving an overall total out of forty. The voice- over announcer is Alan Dedicoat.
During series four, an hour- long highlights show was shown on Sundays at 1. BBC Two, and during series five and six, the results show moved to Sunday evenings, although it was filmed on Saturday and then broadcast "as live" on the Sunday. The singers on the show are Tommy Blaize, Hayley Sanderson, Lance Ellington, Andrea Grant and formerly the well known UK dance music vocalist Tara Mc. Donald. The music director is David Arch. Tommy Blaize has been part of Strictly since its beginning. David Arch joined in the fourth series and Hayley Sanderson in the fifth. The show was broadcast from a specially constructed set at the BBC Television Centre, moving to the Elstree Studios in 2.
However, in the first two series, shows were also filmed at the Tower Ballroom in Blackpool, where the original Come Dancing series was filmed in the 1. In the second series, two shows were filmed at the Tower Ballroom, show five and the Grand Final which was broadcast live on 1. December 2. 00. 4.[2. In 2. 00. 5 though the BBC announced that they would not be returning to the venue for the third series due to "logistical problems".[2. In October 2. 00. Craig Revel Horwood called for the series to return to the Tower Ballroom, saying, "the atmosphere was electric. It's huge and has so much history.
The Tower Ballroom puts a lot of pressure on the professionals and the celebrities to perform to the best of their potential. What a wonderful place to go live to 1.
We have got to get the BBC to bring Strictly Come Dancing back to Blackpool." Eventually, the show did return to the Tower Ballroom, for series 7, where Blackpool- born Craig Kelly was eliminated. The episode was aired live on 7 November 2. Strictly Come Dancing returned to Blackpool for the 2. Then after series 1. Strictly Come Dancing did not go to Blackpool, they announced that they would return for series 1. Presenters[edit]Key Main presenter of Strictly Come Dancing Co- host of Strictly Come Dancing Presenter of It Takes Two Contestant Results show co- host.
Notes^1 From series eight to 1. Sir Bruce Forsyth only hosted the main show.^2 In series two, Tess Daly only appeared from week six onwards due to maternity leave. Natasha Kaplinsky served as a temporary replacement.^3 From series 8 onwards, Claudia Winkleman presented the results show alongside Daly, and occasionally the main show, replacing Forsyth. Following Forsyth's departure after series 1. Daly took over Forsyth's role as main presenter and Winkleman took over Daly's role as co- presenter.^4 In series twelve, Zoë Ball co- presented weeks six, seven and eight of the main show with Daly, covering for Winkleman. Live tour[edit]Judging panel[edit]Key Head judge Main judge Guest judge Contestant. Notes^A Goodman is a former head judge, but missed week six of series nine, so Revel Horwood served as temporary head judge^B Bussell served as a guest judge throughout weeks twelve to fourteen for series seven^C Grey served as a guest judge for Goodman during week six of series nine^D Osmond served as a guest judge for week three of series twelve.
Professional dancers and their partners[edit]Key: Winner of the series Second place of the series Third place of the series First elimination of the series Withdrew in the series Participating in current series Injured, or was not given a celebrity partner. Notes and statistics[edit]Iveta Lukosiute was a replacement partner for Johnny Ball in series 1.
Aliona Vilani, was injured in training.