Should Dancing With The Stars Only Have One Season A Year??
What do you think of Tom Bergeron’s new idea to combat the TV ratings game and keep viewers interested?
It’s still a Top 10 hit, but this season ABC’s Dancing With the Stars is down nearly 14 percent from last fall, to an average of 18 million viewers. Host Tom Bergeron has a suggestion to keep viewers interested: Only air the show once a year, rather than in both fall and spring.
“One season a year works very well for American Idol,” says Bergeron, who thinks the longer wait creates more viewer anticipation. “I certainly think that’s one of the things that should be considered going forward. I would be looking at the spring season very carefully.”
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My thoughts? NO! Tom, are you crazy? I love Dancing With The Stars and I love having two seasons!! The ratings are only down because it’s football season. So what if one or a few shows are at the top of the Fall ratings. It doesn’t mean anything needs to be changed. 🙁
I like my two seasons! And each season is only what… 10 episodes? As opposed to a scripted season of TV which is normally … 22 episodes?
And I’ve got to wonder… are more people watching football because of the basketball lockout?
Totally agree with Evaine, not Tom! Doesn’t the spring get more viewers than the fall show anyway, so I’m not sure why Tom is mentioning not doing the spring show.
If they do one season a year they should do what UK’s SCD does and have more celebrities and longer than 10 weeks.
One season a year would be ok if it’s say 14 celebrities and a 12 week season.
Season 9 had 14 celebs and that was a disaster. I say bring new judges.
If they go to one season they should have a longer season with more celebrities and dances, bring back Mambo, Lindy Hop, etc.
I voted for 2 because I really enjoy it so much but it might make sense from a business point of view?
HAIL TO THE NO! i get that maybe it would be subtle from a business view, but the average family like mine who looks forward to laughing our way thru 2 season of DWTS a year doesn’t care about business point of views.IS TOM POSSESSED?
I say yes only one season a year. This way the pros have time to relax between seasons. I think one season a year would allow the pros to relax, pursue other things(college, their studios, books, movies, music, etc.) and still do dwts. As is they pros seem(at least to me) to be very stressed this season and I think 1 a year would help ease some of the stress.
COME ON! ONE SEASON? NEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The rattings are going down because this season has too much crap drama and less dance quality. As you can see, last night we have the best night in terms of dance quality and it was the most watched episode of all 13th season.
I say:
– LESS THEME WEEKS!
– LESS RECYCLED SONGS!
– MORE LIKEABLE STARS! (like carson!!! if they could shake better, better lol)
– BETTER DANCE TROUPE MEMBERS AND MORE JON AND ANNA PRO DANCES!
– BRING LAMBADA AND JITT BACK! (salsa and a.tango in week 5 or 6 or 7)
– NEW PROS FROM TROUPE! (OKSANA, KIKI AND TEDDY)
– GIVE THE JUDGES SOME MEDICINE!
I’d love to see at least no recycled songs and less theme weeks. its a lot waste of production on the scenario, but, come on I want more dance and less cg spiders on the floor… =/
one tip to the producers from a friend of mine:
We want a all-stars season, with fav stars who didn’t won. they would be paired only with new pros!!!
can you imagine? sabrina, stacy, lance, melissa, gilles, mel b, ralph macchio, erin, brandy, kyle, I don’t know, a lot of people we think they could win back on the stage with new pros?
I think it’s a good idea =p
LOVE^^^
Oh, and Carlos, don’t forget about Sasha. He’s an explosive dancer just waiting to really set sail as a pro.
Totally with Carlos on this!!!
thanx, guys =]
carlos: YES!
Actually, once a year might be a good idea. After 13 seasons it’s not surprising that ratings are down. But then just about all the other top-rated shows have lower ratings. If the show were only once a year, I think viewers would look forward to it more, but the producers would have to make sure to have some ringers on the show since it would become imperative that the show have some really good dancers and be competitive to keep things interesting.
Completly agree with Kyle, but don’t forget Evan Lysacek. I love him. If there isn’t an all star season, have a season for shocking eliminees/people who were really good but screwed up one week and got eliminated/people who weren’t really that good, but the fans loved. We could bring back Sabrina, Audrina, Rick, Sugar Ray, Kristen, Chynna, and Carson!!!! I really wasn’t all that surprised about Brandy, while I knew Brandy was a better dancer, Bristol showed more improvement. Their were a few other things I considered. But let’s throw Brandy in there anyway. There could be a season for tge best out of the worst. It would get terrible ratings, but if they run out of celebrities or themed seasons(all stars or shocking eliminees) they could go to that. It could be Kenny Mayne, David Hasslehoff, Ron Artest/Metta World Peace, Jeffery Ross, Adam Corolla, Billy Ray Cyrus, Mike Catherwood, Kim Kardashian, Macy Gray, Wendy Williams, and (gulp) Kate Gosselin. Oh, and why not throw in Carson, I want him back do much! Oh boy, I’m having second thoughts about this.
No Tom! Two Seasons is NOT the problem! That’s not what is hurting ratings.
My ideas to improve?
1. GET RID OF ALL THEMES! Just let them dance to the best possible songs that fit their dances.
and most important
2. Shake up the judging panel. Some of the judging is so manipulative/incompetent/inconsistent that it’s scary. They also have to strongly consider a judges save during the season to keep the competition from being ruined by better dancers being screwed over by more popular worse dancers. The middle part of this season was hurt terribly by Chaz, Nancy, Carson, and even Hope outlasting Chynna and Kristen. Heck even Elisabetta’s Quickstep was better for me than any of those 4 contestants I mentioned. I have no problem with the fans giving an underdog a chance but when 3 underdogs are still around at week 5 and 2 really good dancers are already home the season was all but ruined because JR and Ricki just don’t have any legit competition.
Agree with Tom. With 1 season, the pros might be less stressed out (though they might be unhappy about the lost income) and there’d be more chance of real stars rather than “reality star” filler.
Don’t really like the idea of an all-star season. Seems like that would only attract the seriously desperate C-list types who welcome any chance to be on national TV.
And I seem to be one of the few who isn’t down on the judges. I think they’re entertaining and I know some people who are fans of them (rather than of the dancers.) Of course their scoring is subjective, but so is everyone else’s estimation of how the dancer’s do.
I enjoy the show two seasons a year and I hope that doesn’t change. It seems to me there are other things on the show that could be tweaked. Less seemingly scripted drama, better cast selection, and better judging. And how about a new co-host for Tom? I’m all for it being Carson!
An All Star season would likely be a big ratings winner. Bring back some of the favorite winners and runner ups…Apolo, Drew Kristie, Mel B…. Those pros that have won multiple times compete with the celeb they had their first win with. I think they could work it out.
Idol also has a lenghty audiotion process as well plus hollywood week and the vote for the top twelve. Therefore, it canonly handle one season.
Carlos you are THE MAN. Give that guy an executive suite and let him return this show to its former glory. If they did go to one season, PLEASE let it be longer than 10 weeks. However, I love looking forward to it in September and March. They just need to quit fixing things that aren’t broken and return to the formula that worked so well in the beinning, in my opinion.
I favor keeping the 2 seasons, simply for my own enjoyment. As to the pros – I don’t think they are stressed out by 2 seasons. They (theoretically) want to dance for their livlihood, make money at it, meet rich/famous/powerful people doing it, get some fame from it (which all entertainers enjoy), and my suspicion is their rehearsal schedule is easier than if they are actually competing in the dance world.
They should have 2 seasons: 1 for Dancing with the STARS and the 2nd for Dancing with Regular Folks. The Pros have become stars in their own right and it would be cool to have seasons where they do a nationwide talent search and have the best audition (just like American Idol) and then narrow it down to 13 or whatever and they get to dance/partner with the Pros. I myself would like to dance with Tony. Ha.
@Rina A: i like ur idea but with a slight change. Since our troops r coming home soon why not get twelve of them. They are the true stars in our country in my opinion.
How about a show interim season where the pros match up, like Karina and Tristan, Derek and Peta and compete. Each couple does a latin and a ballroom round, audience votes for best routines….maybe even let the audience pick who the pairs will be ? ?