Here’s a question… Is the Strictly Come Dancing results show live?
\nWell here’s the answer. No. It’s recorded on Saturday night.
\nPreviously, Strictly Come Dancing has been an all Saturday affair. After the main programme, viewers were invited to vote while they watched the National Lottery show. Then the programme returned for the results. All done and dusted in one evening.
\nThis year, for reasons no way related to increasing Sunday night ratings, the results show has been bulked up a bit, with a dance off, and moved to Sunday.
\nNow it’s perfectly possible that Brucie, and audience, and all the judges could all come back on Sunday for the results. But there’s a problem with this. Two of the judges (Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli), and possibly the voiceover guy and one or two producers, all need to get over to the US for Tuesday night’s Dancing With The Stars on ABC. They have a results show on Wednesday – mainly because with a variety of timezones, fitting everything over one evening isn’t possible (Hawaiians would never get to vote, and East coast audiences would probably have to stay up until midnight to discover the winner).
\nSo for Len Goodman, the senior judge, he’s probably looking at a schedule something like this:
\nFriday – Rehearsals at the BBC
\nSaturday – Record show at the BBC
\nSunday – Rest
\nMonday – Fly to LA and attend rehearsals
\nTuesday – Record show at ABC
\nWednesday – Record results show at ABC
\nThursday – Fly to London
\nYou could<\/I> remove that Sunday rest day, but he’s 65, so he needs a little time off, even if he is traipsing back and forth across the Atlantic in first class.
\nSo why is it obvious that it’s not live on Sunday, and recorded after 9pm on Saturday evening? Well, that’s because 9pm is the cut-off time for getting your votes in on Saturday night.
\nThat, and the fact that tickets to the show are only distributed for Saturdays.
\nThe major problem with recording a reality show like this is that the losers (and winners) are bound to leak in advance. I guess that if you care about the programme you’ll just have to learn not to read the Sunday tabloids (or broadsheets) and avoid internet message boards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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