ABC Releases Show Details For Dancing With The Stars Season 19 Two Night Finale
Here ya go. Read carefully. From Broadway World via Abc:
Episode 1911 & 1911A” – After ten weeks of competitive dancing spanning a variety of styles from the Cha Cha to the Quickstep to the Viennese Waltz and more, Alfonso Ribeiro & Witney Carson, Bethany Mota & Derek Hough, Janel Parrish & Valentin Chmerkovskiy and Sadie Robertson & Mark Ballas remain in the competition, but only one couple will be crowned “Dancing with The Stars” Season 19 champion. Will the injured frontrunner Alfonso Ribeiro break the two-and-a-half-year reign of women winning the Mirrorball? Or will Bethany Mota and record five-time winner Derek Hough bring home the trophy? With the four couples all receiving perfect scores from the judges this season, it is anyone’s game. In the two-part finale, all will have one last opportunity to impress the judges and viewers beginning on MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24 (8:00-10:00 p.m., ET) and concluding with the Season Finale, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25 (9:00-11:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.
On MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24 (8:00-10:00 p.m., ET), the four remaining couples will compete in two exciting rounds of dance. In the first round, each couple will take on the “Judges Pick” and perform a dance they previously performed this season that the judges have selected. In the second round, the couples take on the biggest competitive dance of the season, a Freestyle routine featuring special effects, additional dancers and unexpected surprises. The night continues by celebrating the new, contemporary spin on the classic show “Annie,” coming to movie theaters December 19th. “Annie” stars Oscar®-winner Jamie Foxx, Cameron Diaz, Rose Byrne, and the youngest performer to ever be nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award®, Quvenzhané Wallis, as Annie. Talented young dancers will join Wallis to perform a dance to “It’s The Hard-Knock Life,” choreographed by Mandy Moore. Then, at the end of night, one couple will be eliminated based on the previous weeks’ viewer votes combined with the judges’ scores from the previous Monday night.
The Season Finale on TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25 kicks off with “Dancing with the Stars: Road to the Finals” (8:00-9:00 p.m., ET). This one-hour special chronicles the journey of the three remaining couples revealing never-before-seen moments, director’s cut-style commentary on their past dances and the judges give their expert opinions on what to expect in the two-hour grand finale. The night continues with the Season Finale on TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25 (9:00-11:00 p.m., ET). The show is packed with exciting surprises and kicks off with a high-energy all cast performance featuring a reunion of all 13 of this season’s couples, the judges and hosts. Then, as decided on by a Twitter vote, one of the four finalists will perform their Freestyle dance as an encore. Pop superstar MEGHAN TRAINOR will perform a medley of her catchy hit single “All About That Bass” and newest release “Lips Are Moving.” Additionally, viewers will be treated to encore performances by Randy Couture and Karina Smirnoff to “The Way You Look Tonight,” Betsey Johnson and Tony Dovolani to “Material Girl,” Jonathan Bennett and Allison Holker featuring tWitch to “Back In Time,” Antonio Sabato Jr. and Cheryl Burke to “Tonight (I’m Loving You),” Michael Waltrip and Emma Slater to “Born to be Wild,” Lea Thompson and Artem Chigvintsev to “Maneater,” and Tommy Chong and Peta Murgatroyd to “Drop It Like It’s Hot.” Additionally, the finale will feature musical performances by NICK JONAS, singing his hit single “Jealous,” and Grammy®-winning artist JENNIFER HUDSON and GORGON CITY, performing “Go All Night.” Then, with less than 24 hours to prepare, the three remaining couples will Fuse two contrasting dance styles that they’ve performed this season into a new routine they’ll perform for judges’ points. At the end of the night, the public vote from Monday night will be combined with the judges’ scores from both nights to crown the Season 19 Champion.
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“from the Cha Cha to the Quickstep to the Viennese Waltz and more” with the Alfonso’s jive are these the judge’s pick dances? If they are a bit disappointed, not the one’s I hoped for.
@Angela I though those were the judges’ picks at first, but it seems like they’re just random dances they added in that sentence.
Now that you bring up the judges’ pick, what I’m hoping for is the judges choose the Paso Doble for Bethany, the Samba for Sadie and the Foxtrot for Janel.
Bethany’s Paso Doble was amazing so seeing that again would be great. Sadie’s Samba is one of my favorite of hers and then it would be nice to see Janel doing another ballroom dance.
Really…..Annie? Ugh. Hate that musical so much. That might be the one time where I purposely walk my dog just to avoid watching something.
Oh, dear heavens… I’ve got ‘the sun will come out, to-mor-row’ in my head and it won’t go away. Not thrilled about this inclusion. Also, it does not seem particularly relevant to DWTS. I ‘get’ promoting other ABC brand productions, but Annie? Really?
Yay! Twitch!!
You guys speak it. I’m not a fan to “Annie” either.
But, tWitch,…now that’s a different story! Thanks Jess, I didn’t see that before.
I guess Lolo doesn’t want to try and redeem herself lol.
I’m really interested in seeing the new Annie – the young actress was AMAZING in Beasts of the Southern Wild, although I don’t know if it was talent or just the right film for her. Anyway, definitely more interested in our finale though!
I would hope that Lolo wanted to redeem herself, since she was so adamant about it after her dance. I REALLY hope we get Keo again next season.
Lolo had some sort of surgery two weeks ago. Maybe that’s why she isn’t dancing? Who knows. Would have been nice to see her give the ChaCha another go. I’ve always wondered how she would have fared off in this competition if she wouldn’t have messed up which in turn caused her attitude to be, well, terrible.
With this crowd of likable folks and talent, I don’t think she would have fared very well anyway based on the abilities I saw.
@cc: I wondered about that for awhile too but I defibately hope they give keo someone really good next season. He is a great addition to the show.
I vote pairing Keo up with Tatyana Ali next season 🙂
That must hurt for Keo not being able to dance in the finale. It was a mistake to throw him straight in as a pro due to his inexperience on live TV which I think showed when Lolo was running her mouth. They should have given him a season or 2 on the troupe to adapt to it as you can see doing all these bumpers are really helping him adapt to it. Although I can certainly see why he was thrown in from a producer’s point of view. It’s great publicity to bring in a mixed race male pro (the 1st ever mixed race male pro in DWTS history?) For that reason I think he’ll get another shot at pro next season, it wouldn’t look good on DWTS if they dropped the only mixed race pro they have after 1 season. Saying that I hope he gets a fun celebrity with a good attitude next season, someone that’ll help bring out his personality on TV. Maybe like the Betsy of this season?
Keo is of “mixed race”?? First I’ve heard of this, but I’m not paying that close attention.
Keo is not of mixed race – perhaps M8 is misinformed, but more than likely is just misusing the term.
Or maybe there’s a slight chance that I’ve been misinformed, but I haven’t heard anything about it.
#M8 I don’t understand what Keo’s inexperience has to do with Lolo running her mouth. Personally I think Keo was misguided by TPTB who seem to crave showmances more than anything else. I definitely had the feeling that Keo was coached to approach Lolo from that persepctive and I think it was a mistake for all concerned. I think it would have been better all ways around if Keo had approached Lolo as a fellow athlete, but I don’t fault him at all.
I’m misusing the term yeah. I should have just said non-white male professional. Unless there was one in a very early season.