Yesterday, Tom Bergeron revealed that he was not asked back to host Dancing with the Stars. Today, ABC announced that Tyra Banks will replace him and Erin Andrews. Not only will she be hosting, but she will also be an executive producer.
They are taking the show into a new direction, a direction I have no interest in seeing. Who likes Tyra? I mean she was so bad on America’s Got Talent, that she only did one season. If she couldn’t survive doing that, how is she going to handle doing this show?
Another worrying thing about the press release is that there are three things are missing from it. Those three things are Bruno Tonioli, Carrie Ann Inaba, and Len Goodman. I wonder if the show is thinking of replacing them. They better not because if there are too many changes, and they will lose viewers faster than the Quickstep.
Now, let’s circle back to Bergeron. If Fox fires Nick Cannon from Masked Singer, then I hope they give the job to the Taco. Wouldn’t that be the perfect FU to ABC? Something they need for doing this.
Tom Bergeron has some news to share about Dancing with the Stars, and it is not good. He wrote, “Just informed @DancingABC will be continuing without me. It’s been an incredible 15 year run and the most unexpected gift of my career. I’m grateful for that and for the lifelong friendships made. That said, now what am I supposed to do with all of these glitter masks?”
I am grateful he still has a sense of humor about it because I don’t. Out of all of the elements of the dancing competition show, he is the only one that is worth keeping. He is the glue that keeps it all together.
They could get replace of all of the judges. They could replace his bland co-host. They could replace all of the professional dancers. But they cannot replace him.
He is quick-witted, warm, and comforting to all of the contestants. He is by far the best part of the show. I don’t get it.
Especially, when this upcoming season is going to be full of so many unknowns because of the coronavirus pandemic. We need him to make us feel comfortable during this time. There is no one that is as good as him to do that job.
DWTS’s loss is going to be someone else’s gain. He is the best reality host, and I am sure he will be snapped up faster than a Quickstep.
I mean, who else could have handled Marie Osmond’s fainting better than he did. ABC has made a lot of mistakes, and this is their biggest.
How do you feel about Dancing with the Stars going on without him?
UPDATE: ABC and BBC Studios released a statement, and it sounds like they are going to go hostless. “Tom Bergeron will forever be part of the _Dancing with the Stars_ family. As we embark on a new creative direction, he departs the show with our sincerest thanks and gratitude for his trademark wit and charm that helped make this show a success. Erin will also not be returning, and we appreciate all that she brought to the ballroom. Fans have been rooting for her since she originally competed as a contestant back in 2010, and her signature sense of humor has become a hallmark of the show.”
Here is my thinking, they are going to do the show remotely. Therefore, it will be too much to have any hosts, and figure where to place them in one of their boxes. They will probably just have that British guy introduce the dances and then have the judges critique them. It makes sense, but it does not mean I like it. What do you think?
Due to the coronavirus, the fall schedule of broadcast television is pretty much up in the air for most shows including Dancing the with the Stars.
Today when Tom Bergeron was on Extra, they asked him if the ballroom will be open in the fall. He says, “I think that is the hope.” However, he added, “It’s hard to imagine, right now, a scenario where 700 people in an audience and 24 sweaty dancers can all be in the same room. We’ll see if some variation of that is concocted.”
There is a way they can do it remotely. So many dance studios are closed because it is not an essential business. Therefore, each couple can get their own studio. The judges and the hosts can go live from their homes. Sadly, there will be no studio audience. I think they would be worth the sacrifice to bring the dancing competition back in a few months.
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Yesterday was Halloween night on Dancing with the Stars and everyone dressed up for the occasion. There was one person that was heads and shoulders above the rest and it was host Tom Bergeron. That is because he went as a head on a platter. Something that, thankfully, the network has not asked for. You know his head on a platter!
This morning on Good Morning America, they announced who will be dancing this season on Dancing with the Stars. There was one name that stood out and not in a good way.
People immediately took to Twitter to declare their disgust that they asked Sean Spicer to put on his Boogie Shoes. They were not alone, host Tom Bergeron was also not happy with the decision. However, his reason is a little different than theirs.
A few months ago, during a lunch with DWTS’ new Executive Producer, I offered suggestions for Season 28. Chief among them was my hope that DWTS, in its return following an unprecedented year-long hiatus, would be a joyful respite from our of inevitably divisive bookings from ANY party affiliations. I left that lunch convinced we were in agreement.
Subsequently (and rather obviously), a decision was made to, as we often say in Hollywood, “go in a different direction.”
It is the prerogative of the producers, in partnership with the network, to make whatever decisions they feel are in the best long term interests of the franchise. We can agree to disagree, it’s their call. I’ll leave it to them to answer any further questions about those decisions.
For me, as host, I always gaze into the camera’s lens and imagine you on the other side, looking for a two hour escape from whatever life hassles you’ve been wrestling with. That’s a connection, and a which I take very seriously, even if I occasionally season it with dad jokes.
Hopefully, when Erin Andrews and Rook into those lenses again September 16, you’ll be on the other side looking back, able to enjoy the charismatic pro dancers, the unpredictable judges and the kitschy charm exhausting political climate and free as we do now, but ultimately responsibility, on that has defined DWTS since 2005.
I side with Bergeron on this. We get way too much politics during the day, I want to escape it with primetime TV. Hopefully, this show will still be an escape.
Although, I wonder if the man, who hid in the bushes at the White House, will be brave enough to deal with all of the controversy he is bringing to the dancing competition. As in, will he quit before the show premieres on Septemeber 16th? Or go for the easy way out and claim he was injured and have to bow out like Jewel and Nancy O’Dell?
