Dancing With The Stars All Athlete Edition Premiere Date Set For April
ABC released some official dates for their new Spring Schedule. According to TV By The Numbers via ABC, the “Dancing With the Stars” All Athlete Edition will premiere on Monday, April 30th. That’s a long time to wait. Are you up for it? I am a big American Idol fan. So, I’m looking forward to this change. Let us know what you think in comments.
“American Idol” will keep its familiar two-nights-a-week format when it debuts on ABC — and in turn push the next cycle of “Dancing With the Stars” to later in the spring.
That’s one of the highlights of ABC’s schedule for the back half of the season. Others include the still-untitled “Grey’s Anatomy” spinoff getting a spot in the TGIT lineup and a slew of series premieres: comedies “Alex, Inc.” and “Splitting Up Together” — plus the return of “Roseanne” — and dramas “Deception” (which is getting the post-“Idol” spot on Sundays), “For the People
and “The Crossing.”During the Winter Olympics, ABC will also run “The Bachelor Winter Games” — a cold-weather version of “Bachelor in Paradise” — to rest several shows. It will air from 8-10 p.m. Feb. 13, 15, 20 and 22.
Let’s get to the rundown, because there’s a lot to take in. Premiere dates (all times ET/PT) below. New shows are in italics. Where shows are replacing series currently on the schedule, notes on their finale dates are included.
Sunday, March 11
8 p.m. “American Idol”
10 p.m. “Deception”Monday, March 12
8 p.m. “American Idol” (time period premiere)
Monday, April 30
8 p.m. “Dancing With the Stars” (all-athlete edition)
More at TV By The Numbers .
Will watch Olympic figure skating, especially if Julia is doing commentary! 🙂
Also, DWTS Athletes Edition pending pros and athletes, of course!
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Me too, Jim!!!
I watched Idol every season on FOX. So, yes, I am a big fan. But DWTS is always priority with me, therefore I hope ABC figures out a way to have a full season of DWTS in Spring of 2019. I am very thankful for the Athletes Special because we weren’t even supposed to have anything this Spring due to a possible DWTS Jr.
And I am huge Olympics fan, both Winter and Summer. Have watched as far back as I can remember.
I usually watch the “figure skating” part of the Olympics, and I also will be watching the DWTS Athletic Season in April (according to who the Pros and Athletics are of course).
After reading this I take it we are not having DWTS Fall 2018 ???
No, there will be a regular season of DWTS in the fall. It won’t be announced until ABC announces their fall schedule.
And an April 30th premiere for the Athletes Season pretty much rules out any tennis players. Roland Garros starts on May 21.
Skaters: Elladj Balde! Look up his Uptown Funk exhibition program. He just did his last Canadian Nationals, he’s retiring from competition this season.
Cool resource I found last month: rockerskating.com. He offers real time reporting & does some commentary, as a side gig. He includes video for some competitors (including Balde) for US & other competitions. IceNetwork.com is from US skating (figure, speed, synchro) with updates & articles.