Dances Revealed, Elimination Information, Format Changes For Dancing With The Stars Season 28 Week 2
Dang! They are taking the fun out of us trying to find dance information for next week. Oh well, read on for all the details. From WDTV….
THE 12 CELEBRITY AND PRO-DANCER COUPLES COMPETE ANOTHER WEEK ON ABC’S ‘DANCING WITH THE STARS’ FOR THE COVETED MIRRORBALL TROPHY, MONDAY, SEPT. 23
Big Format Change in Voting to Be Revealed; First Elimination for the 2019 Season
“First Elimination” – The 12 celebrity and pro-dancer couples compete a second week with the first elimination of the 2019 season, live, MONDAY, SEPT. 23 (8:00-10:00 p.m. EDT), on ABC. (TV-PG, L) Episodes can also be viewed the next day on ABC.com, the ABC app and Hulu.
Vying for America’s vote, each couple will dance to a style they have not yet danced to this season. Some of the songs featured in the season’s second episode will include Taylor Swift’s “Lover,” Demi Lovato’s “Confident,” Frank Sinatra’s “Fly Me to the Moon,” The Goo Goo Dolls’ “Iris,” Aretha Franklin’s “Think” and Earth, Wind & Fire’s “September,” among others. The show opens with a comedic cold open featuring celebrity contestant Ray Lewis giving one of his infamous locker room pep talks to his fellow celebrities in advance of the first elimination.
For the show’s second broadcast, scores from the judges from week one will carry over and be combined with judges’ scores from week two, which also marks the first weekly live-viewing audience vote of the season (via abc.com, the ABC app and SMS/text). The live votes will occur each week only during the live broadcast in the EDT/CDT time zones (but fans in all U.S. time zones may vote within that window).
Moving forward with each subsequent Monday night, the live vote combined with the judges’ scores will be tabulated in real time, with the bottom two revealed during the broadcast. And for the first time in “DWTS” history, a big format change in voting will change everything and will be revealed during the broadcast.
The couples are (with their dance choice) the following:
•Country artist Lauren Alaina and Gleb Savchenko will dance the Cha Cha
•Model and photographer Sailor Brinkley-Cook and Val Chmerkovskiy will dance the Foxtrot
•Pop star Ally Brooke and Sasha Farber will dance the Salsa
•“The Bachelorette” Hannah Brown and Alan Bersten will dance the Cha Cha
•“The Office” actress Kate Flannery and Pasha Pashkov will dance the Cha Cha
•TV host and “Queer Eye” star Karamo and Jenna Johnson will dance the Salsa
•Super Bowl MVP Ray Lewis Cheryl Burke will dance the Salsa
•Comedian and actor Kel Mitchell and Witney Carson will dance the Tango
•Two-time NBA Champion Lamar Odom and Peta Murgatroyd will dance the Foxtrot
•Former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer and Lindsay Arnold will dance the Salsa
•TV and film actor James Van Der Beek and Emma Slater will dance the Tango
•Legendary “Supremes” singer Mary Wilson and Brandon Armstrong will dance the Foxtrot
Is it just me, or are those dances from Week 1?
Historically, I have loved every tango from every one of the football players so ray should be a blast to watch
Sounds like a judges save or bottom 2 dance off.
Yes, those are the exact same styles as last night. I assume that list was released in error, but with this show you never know!
Yep. There are week one dances.
And we folks in the west get shafted again????
At least we could vote with the old way.
I was thinking they were going to have the Strictly Come Dancing way of the bottom 2 dance off with the judges deciding who stays. But they tried that during the Donald Driver season so it wouldn’t be the first time in show history. Who knows.
@Adam, they also had it in season 9 briefly. Since the press release just says the bottom 2 revealed (but nothing about them being voted off), along with something about a new twist, that’s why I’m leaning towards a save.
Of course those dances off were just a few weeks, so I guess it would be different if it was for the whole season.
West coast will be unable to see dancers prior to voting being open. This is grossly unfair, especially since the show is filmed in LA.
Just realized I put tango and not salsa in my other comment. Just wanted to correct that
I hate live voting and not sure why they are gonna go this route. West coast people won’t vote 3 hours before- it skews the results. More people should complain.
Complain to who, Jake? It’s not like the network is going to change their plan for the season.
There’s this thing called Twitter and email. Why wouldn’t they change it? They have new producers. They are changing voting because of the outcry from last season but this is the wrong direction.
Don’t get sarcastic, Jake. And they’re not changing because of any “outcry”, they’re changing because they want ratings to improve. You’ve said your piece here, now follow your own advice and go bug somebody on Twitter or over email. Some of us realize that trying to get anything through to the producers is about as effective as trying to explain particle physics to a brick wall.
Lindsay just said in her Instastory that she and S**n have Tango next week.
Sailor and Val both posted on their instagram pages that they have rumba next week.
Emma and James have a cha cha next week, according to Emma’s insta story!