Fox announced premiere dates for their hot summer lineup and it is all about Gordon Ramsay!!! Starting on Tuesday, May 29th, Hell’s Kitchen returns at 8p and then it will be followed by his other cooking competition show MasterChef at 9p. That following Monday, June 4th his new show Hotel Hell debuts. HH is like Kitchen’s Nightmares, but for Hotels and Bed & Breakfasts. I am so looking forward to those hot summer nights I will be spending with the Chef who uses the f-word more than he does another f-word, you know food.
Now Fox’s summer isn’t all about Ramsay, So You Think You Can Dance will be back on Thursday, May 24th and then the following week it will moving to its regularly scheduled Wednesday airings. This season the show is only airing one night a week and they have yet to announce how that will change things up. Either way, the show lost me as viewer a while ago because it was too much about the judges’ egos and not enough about the dancers.
Nigel Lythgoe broke some huge news about So You Think You Can Dance on Twitter today, “#FOX have cancelled the results show so I will have to change the format of #SYTYCD. At least we have another season at the end of MAY.” He then said two hours later, “Don’t worry #SYTYCD fans. I’m thrilled we have a new series. We’ll do our best to find some great talent starting next week in Atlanta.”
I am happy with the changes because the results show had become a one hour bore. I just hope that one of the changes is our vote eliminates the dancers and not the judges. I very rarely agreed with their decisions and the show is still on the air because we watch it not because of the judges that are on it. Plus with the reality dance show being cut down to one day, it also means less time for the judges to go on their useless rants that were more about their egos than the dancers.
Finally I hope this smart decision by Fox means that results shows are a thing of the past and we all won’t have to waste an hour of our time for something that can be done in 5 minutes. Seriously who likes any of the results show including the ones for American Idol, Dancing with the Stars, America’s Got Talent and The Voice.
Fame Pictures
While Mia Michaels has choreographed some beautiful dances on So You Think You Can Dance, as a judge she annoyed the heck out of me. So I am posting these pictures of her in a bathing suit on a break from choreographing Rock of Ages in Miami as revenge for all those stupid comments she made me suffer through on the Fox dance show. I am so happy that Adam Shankman is shooting the movie while SYTYCD is on the air because that means neither Mia or him will be on the live shows! Who will miss them? I know I won’t!
Seriously as brilliant as Mark Burnett’s choices were for the judges on The Voice, I think that Nigel Lythgoe’s are the opposite. I didn’t know much about Blake Shelton, Cee Lo Green and Adam Levine before the NBC singing competition and now I am loving them all! While every judge on SYTYCD, some who I was a fan of before the show, has grown to irritate and annoy me like Toni Basil, Adam Shankman, Debbie Allen and the list goes on. Maybe Nigel should let someone else hire the judges and maybe that person can start by filling his seat at the table. And don’t get me started on his choices for American Idol…
Before Mary Murphy was judging dancers on So You Think You Can Dance, she was being judged for her dancing in Columbus, Oh. How beautiful was it to watch the 24 year old dancing gracefully in 1983. She is on my Hot Tamale Train!!!
A year after Mia Michaels announced she was done with So You Think You Can Dance, only to return the next season as a judge, she has once again quit the show. She told Marc Malkin, “”Last year when I was sitting on the [judges] panel, I knew it wasn’t the right fit because I felt too glossy sitting on the panel. People were so focused on what I wore and my hair. I wanted to get dirty and back to the work. I am an artist and I’m a visionary. I need to paint my world now and not be constantly linked to So You think You Can Dance.” All I have to say is good riddance and bring back Mary Murphy. Even she agrees with me because she also told Malkin, “I’ve sat in that chair, but I feel like that was Mary’s chair.”
Mia might be a good choreographer, but she was not a good judge. Personally if it were up to me I would have Nigel Lythgoe and Adam Shankman join her by leaving the show because they don’t offer anything to judges’ table. That and they kind of creep me out by the way they talk to the contestants. Like I need a shower after I watch the show.
