Dancing on Ice

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Revision as of 23:42, 25 February 2007

Contents

Host

Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby

Co-hosts

Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean

Announcer: Marc Silk

Commentator: Tony Gubba

Judges: Karen Barber, Robin Cousins, Jason Gardiner, Karen Kresge, Nicky Slater

"Defrosted" (ITV2 show): Stephen Mulhern

"Extra" (ITV1 teatime show): Andi Peters and Andrea McLean

Broadcast

Granada (as ITV Productions) for ITV1, 2006

Synopsis

ITV's long-awaited answer to Strictly Come Dancing. A group of (fairly) famous people are tutored in ice dance by Torvill and Dean, and are whittled down week by week until a winner is found.

The number of callbacks to S.C.D. is quite breathtaking - almost as if the director's used the same shot list. There's five judges instead of four, and the scores (out of six, in half-point steps) are revealed in on-screen style like an ice dancing competition with only a few chats with the judges. The set appears to be a car crash of leftovers from You Bet! and Ice Warriors, although the glass roof is rather nice. One thing it does have over SCD is that the practice of only opening phone lines after everyone has performed is clearly fairer than Strictly's practice of keeping them open all week.

The strange thing is that despite being just about the most derivative show we have ever seen, and despite the inherent limitations of the ice dance format, somehow (and believe us, we're scratching our heads over how on earth this happened) ITV have pretty much pulled it off. And not "pulled it off" as in "yanked it from the schedules after three weeks", either. It doesn't work as well as Strictly Come Dancing in any department (except perhaps in the choice of host), and it does seem to drag a bit over the course of a series, but nevertheless it works. Just about.

Participants

Series 1

Gaynor Faye (actress - winner)
Andi Peters (TV host)
David Seaman (former footballer and Strictly Ice Dancing champion)
Bonnie Langford (ask your mum)
Andrea McLean (TV presenter)
Tamara Beckwith (socialite/journalist)
Dame Kelly Holmes (last line of the nation's defences)
Sean Wilson (Corrie actor)
John Barrowman (actor)
Stefan Booth (The Bill actor)

Series 2

Ulrika Jonsson (TV presenter)
Stephen Gateley (ex-Boyzone singer)
Neil Fox (fake doctor and DJ)
Emily Symons (Emmerdale actress)
Lisa Scott-Lee (ex-Steps singer)
Lee Sharpe (ex-footballer)
Kay Burley (Sky News presenter)
Clare Buckfield (actress)
Kieran Bracken (rugby player)
Phil Gayle (newsreader)
Duncan James (ex-Blue singer)

Music

Theme by Paul Farrer.

See also

Weaver's Week review

Web links

Wikipedia entry

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