JBWriter
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Re: For us "non Americans"
Hi, Hpm1999:
1. I pulled the below info from this link: http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/20...1-4-million-viewers-in-live-3-ratings/204155/ Please note, however, the ratings shown in the quoted section are from last week, not last night. 17 million viewers in the US seems reasonably popular. :confused2:
2. Not sure if it's broadcast in other countries -- there are a slew of clips from the 16 previous seasons on You Tube.
3. Each of the 3 judges give a score (from 1-10) to a competing pair -- those 3 scores are combined and then added to the audience votes. The dancing pair with the lowest combined (judges + audience) score is eliminated from the competition entirely.
4. Not sure where an actress on a long-running sitcom fits with film stars in the Hollywood pecking order. The sitcom was originally broadcast on network tv, but it airs in syndication (re-runs) frequently on multiple cable channels in the US. Because of syndication, I think it's fair to say she's familiar to many Americans - but I don't know whether that translates to anything beyond simple familiarity.
I'd never seen the DWTS show before it was announced she was going to compete -- but friends/family/colleagues all knew it quite well, and they've been terrific at getting the word out to tune-in and vote for her. Better still, it's proving to be an excellent method of introducing the topic of Co$ abusive practices/policies around the water cooler/kitchen table/Skype...and that's the best part, really.
JB (<----Knows close-to-zilch about pop culture, but am catching up!)
not familiar with this show (which I do believe is similar to "You Got Talent" but involves dancing by celebrities) I, and I suspect, others, have some questions:
1. How Popular is this show in the US? Is it the type of show that has people discussing it at the water cooler in the office
2. Is it shown outside the US (the first I heard of this show was on ESMB- and then watched links on the Underground Bunker)
3. Do the judges select- or as it seems from what I have read- does the public watching the show vote who continues into the competition,
4. I was not familiar with Leah R prior to her appearance here and on the Bunker- is she considered Celebrity in the class of Travolta, Beghe and Cruise-
I assume that that the show must be WIDLY popular on US telly.
Regardless CO$ and COB have to be running around in circles. Hubbard's vaunted "get celebrities"on board cuts both ways. I would submit that these shows work (if it is like You GOt TAlent) when there is a "good story". And this is a "good story"-
I must admit that I did not know who Leah R was until she surfaced whilst quitting - but if she is as popular as claimed- then I must imagine that people will vote for her because of that and because "some nefarious group is trying to harm her".
Could one of you Yanks comment please?
Hi, Hpm1999:
1. I pulled the below info from this link: http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/20...1-4-million-viewers-in-live-3-ratings/204155/ Please note, however, the ratings shown in the quoted section are from last week, not last night. 17 million viewers in the US seems reasonably popular. :confused2:
2. Not sure if it's broadcast in other countries -- there are a slew of clips from the 16 previous seasons on You Tube.
3. Each of the 3 judges give a score (from 1-10) to a competing pair -- those 3 scores are combined and then added to the audience votes. The dancing pair with the lowest combined (judges + audience) score is eliminated from the competition entirely.
4. Not sure where an actress on a long-running sitcom fits with film stars in the Hollywood pecking order. The sitcom was originally broadcast on network tv, but it airs in syndication (re-runs) frequently on multiple cable channels in the US. Because of syndication, I think it's fair to say she's familiar to many Americans - but I don't know whether that translates to anything beyond simple familiarity.
I'd never seen the DWTS show before it was announced she was going to compete -- but friends/family/colleagues all knew it quite well, and they've been terrific at getting the word out to tune-in and vote for her. Better still, it's proving to be an excellent method of introducing the topic of Co$ abusive practices/policies around the water cooler/kitchen table/Skype...and that's the best part, really.
JB (<----Knows close-to-zilch about pop culture, but am catching up!)
I have watched DWTS in the past, here and there, when someone I like is on it, and it is OK, fine entertainment, for what it is. Sometimes the dancing is just extraordinary, for people who haven't done much of it before, if at all. Sometimes I just watch(ed) it for the Chmerkovskiy borthers. 
