DWTS – Dancing With The Stars Officially Renewed For New Season
The ABC television network officially announced the early renewal of six TV series as well as “Dancing with the Stars” today. According to the Hollywood Reporter, President Paul Lee expressed his ambition for ABC to become a place that embraces the showrunner culture calling the network a “brand that combines smart with heart”.
Along with “Dancing With The Stars”, the Emmy Award-winning show “Modern Family” will return for a third season and as well as the top-rated medical drama “Grey’s Anatomy”. “Cougar Town”, “The Middle”, “Castle”, and “Private Practice” were also renewed. Salma Hayek will executive produce an eight-hour mini-series based on the book “Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West” which inspired the Tony Award-winning Broadway play. Lee also hopes to take advantage of parent Disney’s new ownership of Marvel Entertainment, developing a remake of “The Hulk”. Speaking of “Dancing With The Stars” exclusively, here is what Lee explained to a reporter(who asks dumb questions, lol).
Of course, unscripted has done heavy lifting for ABC so far this season with Wipeout and Dancing with the Stars – featuring the controversial Bristol Palin – far out-rating any of ABC’s new programs.
Asked if he was tempted to recruit Palin – who has also appeared on the ABC Family series The Secret Life of the American Teenager – for another ABC property, Lee demurred; “I haven’t thought about that.”
But he acknowledged that casting is key on Dancing, which is expected to be back in March and has yet to reveal its new season cast.
“We won’t have Bristol Palin,” he said. “We will have something different.”
Watching the show himself, Zap2it also reports Lee said this…
Lee is a fan of “Glee” and “The Good Wife” and thinks they could work on ABC. He also loves “Dancing With the Stars.” Watching the show in person, he says, is like “going to the circus.”
So, that is it for now. Still no official date as for when Season 12 will premiere. But, March 21st is a very strong possibility according to rumors going around currently.
yeah! it’s so close! in the mid of february we’ll know something for sure! =]
I hope so Carlos!!!! 😉 This waiting is a killer. lol
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Cant wait for the bachelor to end! Taylor Hicks for DWTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😀 COME ON BABY!!!
Jeez, some of these interviewers ask some truly stupid questions. Bristol Palin on another ABC show??? Like what, being the babysitter for the gay couple on Modern Family? A future Bachelorette? Or maybe she’s best suited for being made a fool of on Wipeout! *eye roll* Kudos to Lee for dodging that question gracefully – if I were him, I would stay as far away from Bristol Palin as humanly possible.
Ok, feel free to set me straight if I’m wrong, but did it seem to take longer than usual for DWTS to get picked up for another season? I feel like in past seasons, they’ve been greenlit for a subsequent season before the current one was even finished.
I would actually like to see a “DWTS Contestant or Pros” edition of whipeout. That would be funny to see. They could probably get some of the pros that haven’e been used lately and maybe some of the popular ones (Anna, Derek, Mark, Maks, Corky, Cheryl, etc) and some fan fav contestants (Giles, Shawn, Bristol, Kristi, Kyle, etc). After seeing bristol act on The secret life of the american teenager (I youtubed it and she has no acting ability whatsoeever) I don’t think she will be acting any time soon lol.
I was surprosed to see “The Middle” renewed. I watched it a couple of times and I just thought it was trying to be the next “Malcom in the middle”. The oldest son is like Francis and Reese. The daughter is kindal ike malcolm (socially awkward) and the youngest kid (who is hysterical in my opinion) is like Dewey (who just happens to be my favorite charactero n Malcolm lol). The parents are also very similair. I’m glad to see Castle got renewed. Its awesome.
Wikipedia shows March 22 for the next start date. That’s a Tuesday, so maybe its the first elimination. I’m with Dominique. Taylor Hicks would be guaranteed to get all my votes. He’d certainly be going in with a large fan base trained to vote heavily, “SOUL PATROL!!”
@Pat – It’s March 21…I’m told. Can’t wait….
@Vin – The Middle is a favorite at my house. It does feel vaguely like Malcolm in the Middle, but hey, that was a good show – so maybe The Middle has kinda filled in the niche that it left. I agree that Brick, the youngest kid, steals the show – Atticus Shaffer (the kid that plays him) is just too cute for words! 🙂
I have can state with near certainty that the new season will likely start either the 21st or 28th of March, because (just my luck) the premieres of both season coincide with the end of Q1 and Q3 at my office, which forces me to scramble home to watch & blog about the show after 14 hour workdays. Lovely.
Bristol needs to stop. She just needs to disappear! and hehe SOUL PATROL bayyybaaayyyyyy 🙂 Cant waiiit for DWTS!
LOL, Courtney – I’ve answered this once and you ignored me last time. 🙂 No, they’ve not done DWTS any differently than they have in the past. They always announce it about this far out. I don’t think it’s about being green lit, I think it has to do with setting the start date, but I could be wrong. They don’t usually pick shows up one season at a time unless they’re on the bubble – and DWTS ain’t on no bubble. That’s how it used to be, anyway.
Heidi dear, I didn’t ignore you 🙂 And I thought announcing the start date and being green lit for another season were two different things – and I still feel like I heard Tom announce at the end of season 10 that season 11 would start September 20, and I could have sworn that they announced that DWTS was greenlit for another season midway through season 9. Could I have dreamed this? Possibly. 🙂 But I’m currently too lazy (and just don’t care enough) to go watch the epidsodes online to confirm. 😉
LOL at Bristol babysitting for the gay couple on Modern Family! And Is greenlit a word or are you just making a Palin outta your self Courtney? :)Courtney it did seem to take awhile for DWTS to get the greenlight, but it did also for Modern Family, Couger Town, Greys Anatomy etc so i dont think its because of all the controversy last season, really. Anyway heres to another season of DWTS ( AND CHEESECAKE! Cant wait for that!! Really guys, its awesome! 😀
Yes I remeber Tom saying at the end of season 10 that they would be back for season 11
Zach –
green-light –verb (used with object), -light·ed or -lit, -light·ing.
to give permission to proceed; authorize: The renovation project was green-lighted by the board of directors.
I am most certainly not “making a Palin out of myself”. 🙂
And I actually said nothing about the controversy of last season having anything to do with the show seemingly taking longer than necessary to get picked up for another season. It was more an observation than anything else, really.
Glad you like the cheesecake. Hopefully Heidi & I will feel a bit more inspired this coming season, since it was often painfully hard to make fun of season 11 since there really wasn’t a whole lot that was funny about it.
In working on my big post, I am often tempted to Cheesecake the older episodes. 🙂 And YES, I did just turn the word Cheesecake into a verb. 🙂
But Tom saying they’ll be back and it actually being official are two different things – as is the announcement and being greenlit. I think the producers probably feel pretty safe in assuming, since it’s in the top TWO in ratings. I don’t think the producers have made an official announcement of the new season prior to the conclusion of the previous one before.
I think Tom has announced the date for the next season premiere during the finale in the past. I swear I remember him doing it recently. Maybe last spring? I know he hasn’t always said a specific date though.
Please excuse me Miss Courtney. 🙂 I was just dieing to do a Palin crack. 😛 Yes I also hope that next season will be more cheesecakeish. 😀 Palin cracks are accepted.
TAYLOR HICKS FOR DANCING W/THE STARS!!!!