Tonight is the season finale of Dancing with the Stars on ABC, and Fox decided to announce that So You Think You Can Dance will be back for its 18th season on Monday, March 4th.
If that is not a big enough fuck you to ABC, then finding out that Maksim Chmerkovskiy is joining the judges’ table is doing just that.
Who else would prefer to watch Maks over Derek Hough as a judge on DWTS? I know I can’t be alone. And now I will be watching him on SYTYCD.
The news gets even better. Fox screwed up and asked Nigel Lythgoe not to return for season 17. But they realized their fuck up and are bringing him back.
The two men will be joined by former contestant Allison Holker. Her late husband was a judge on season 17. So this will be a tribute to Twitch.
The judges’ table is not the only thing changing. So is the former. Each week, contestants will compete in new, intense dance challenges that will give them a real taste of the career, from performing in a music video or a football halftime show to going toe-to-toe on stage with a Broadway performer. In the end, it will be up to the judges to decide their fate. Eliminations will take place weekly, with the Top 3 finalists competing in the season’s spectacular finale, but only one will win the $100,000 grand prize and the highly coveted title of So You Think You Can Dance champion.
And for those of you wondering if Cat Deeley will be back? Yes, she will be!
I hope SYTYCD finds a new audience to watch the series along with its loyal fans. Because this sounds like it is the adrenaline shot the dancing competition needed.
Some guy named Benny Safdie was on The Tonight Show yesterday, and he decided to dress like a statue who poses with tourists in Manhattan by Times Square.
I guess he was trying to do something to make his appearance on the late night talk show memorable. But I think he looks like his moron.
And it probably is a good thing he dressed up like a schmuck because his interview was just as bad. And it wasn’t Jimmy Fallon’s fault.
So, Safdie, your plan worked, and you are getting attention. But is it the attention you want?
John Oliver’s show Last Week Tonight has won 26 Emmys in less than ten years. So it should be no surprise that when it was time for HBO to renew the series, they made no hesitation to do so. In fact, they want three more seasons, bringing the topical show’s total to 13.
“We’re very happy to get to keep making this show with our fantastic staff,” said John Oliver. We will continue trying to stretch the term ‘entertainment’ to the breaking point.”
How happy are you to see him brilliantly destroy things that need to be destroyed?
That ear-piercing screech you heard that broke some of the glasses in your house has now been explained.
It was Mariah Carey’s reaction to Brenda Lee’s Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree, knocking her song All I Want For Christmas Is You from the top of the Billboard charts.
That’s right, the 65-year-old tune is #1 on the Top 100 charts for the first time ever. Knocking Carey down to #2.
And now I know why it is so cold in Los Angeles, hell froze over. And Carey went from Santa’s little helper to Satan’s. So, in the words of Geena Davis in The Fly, “Be afraid. Be very afraid.”
Congrats to Lee. She is proving at 78 you are never too old to live out your dream!
Tonight at 8p on ABC, it is time for the Dancing with the Stars season finale. Along with dancing, finalist Jason Mraz is going to sing his happy tune I Feel Like Dancing.
The singer is not the only one who is going to be doing double duty tonight. Val Chmerkovskiy revealed that he is going to showcase his violin skills during the 3-hour finale.
The professional dancer shared the above video and wrote, “Invest in your kids and expose them to art. They’ll grow up into adults with a roster of party tricks. I’ll be playing this tomorrow on #DWTS finale, don’t miss us, and please vote #TeamXV”
Amazing, I am going to watch just to see him do that because that is just beautiful. I wonder what instrument his brother Maxsim plays. Besides the one ivory flute! Sorry, I had to!
