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So You Think You Can Dance?

We’ve been crazy about ‘Strictly Come Dancing,’ since its UK TV debut back in 2004. In fact, the show is credited with increasing the uptake of dance here, with dance schools up and down the UK reporting surges in registrations during and immediately following each series. ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ the US show based on the hit BBC show, has caused a similar effect on the other side of the Atlantic too.

And they’re not daft, at the BBC! The ongoing and consistent success of ‘Strictly,’ proved to bosses that the combination of reality TV and dance is a winning one with the British public. And no sooner had the seventh series of the hit show finished in December 2009, when the BBC launched another dance related reality show. ‘So You Think You Can Dance?’ is based on the US show of the same name, which has been running in the States since 2005. The first series started in January 2010, less than a month after the ‘Strictly,’ final. Presented by Cat Deeley, who has also presented the US version since the second series, the show invited both amateur and professional dancers alike to audition. While the first in the series introduced some of the auditionees, the focus is those who made it to the final 14. Each of the finalists performs a routine alone and as a part of a pair each Saturday, with a female and male participant eliminated weekly. Unlike ‘Strictly,’ no celebrities are involved. Over 6 million of us tuned in for the opening show and it looks set to prove a hit with UK audiences.

The British public’s love affair with dance continues to grow, something again attributed to media coverage of the various dance forms and a growing number of dance related TV shows.