Tell Me On A Sunday... Please
The results are in... on Sunday!
The BBC have announced that the Strictly Come Dancing results show will be moving to a Sunday, rather than later on a Saturday night.
This leads to a MAJOR format change.
Viewers can vote for up to an hour after Saturday's programme. The votes, and judges scores will be amalgamated as before.
Here's the change.
The bottom two will now face a dance-off on the Sunday night and the JUDGES will decide who stays and who goes - not the voting public.
If the judges votes are tied, Head Judge Len Goodman will have the casting vote.
Viewers will still have the casting vote on the grand final.
I can almost feel the shockwaves on the forums as we speak.
My thoughts? Well, I think it alienates viewers who like to feel in control of the destiny of their favourite stars. Although it will encourage more votes, as viewers fight to keep their favourites out of the dance off.
As someone who wants dancers to go through on merit rather than personality, I think it gives the power back to those who are there to judge the dancing. Our judges are experts, and will put through the strongest dancers rather than the fan favourites.
I am concerned about the poor participants and their partners. It is agonising enough to have to wait the length of Casualty to find out if you are safe, but to wait 24 hours is excruciating.
I am concerned that is might disrupt training schedules. While some couples have Sunday off, many others are straight back in the training room. No doubt Sundays will now be wiped out due to studio rehearsals.
And I'm concerned about Len & Bruno, who will be doing DWTS and SCD concurrently again this year. The extra show will put extra pressure on them, especially Len who may have some very tough decisions ahead of him.
On a totally selfish note, they must need a studio audience for the Sunday shows, so perhaps those of us without tickets might be in with a chance...
The BBC have announced that the Strictly Come Dancing results show will be moving to a Sunday, rather than later on a Saturday night.
This leads to a MAJOR format change.
Viewers can vote for up to an hour after Saturday's programme. The votes, and judges scores will be amalgamated as before.
Here's the change.
The bottom two will now face a dance-off on the Sunday night and the JUDGES will decide who stays and who goes - not the voting public.
If the judges votes are tied, Head Judge Len Goodman will have the casting vote.
Viewers will still have the casting vote on the grand final.
I can almost feel the shockwaves on the forums as we speak.
My thoughts? Well, I think it alienates viewers who like to feel in control of the destiny of their favourite stars. Although it will encourage more votes, as viewers fight to keep their favourites out of the dance off.
As someone who wants dancers to go through on merit rather than personality, I think it gives the power back to those who are there to judge the dancing. Our judges are experts, and will put through the strongest dancers rather than the fan favourites.
I am concerned about the poor participants and their partners. It is agonising enough to have to wait the length of Casualty to find out if you are safe, but to wait 24 hours is excruciating.
I am concerned that is might disrupt training schedules. While some couples have Sunday off, many others are straight back in the training room. No doubt Sundays will now be wiped out due to studio rehearsals.
And I'm concerned about Len & Bruno, who will be doing DWTS and SCD concurrently again this year. The extra show will put extra pressure on them, especially Len who may have some very tough decisions ahead of him.
On a totally selfish note, they must need a studio audience for the Sunday shows, so perhaps those of us without tickets might be in with a chance...
posted by Loulabelle44 @ 1:49 pm
1 Comments:
At 4:12 pm,
Anonymous said…
Interesting...I agree with the judges deciding who stays, that's much fairer than the public choice. Shame about the final, but hopefully there'll be three couples again this time so the judges won't be redundant.
It's hard enough staying in/catching-up with Saturday's shows each week, though - Sunday too could get difficult...Could work, it'll be interesting to see.
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