Finale Ratings: DWTS and Idol Split Tuesday Win While Hitting Lows, Glee Up But Down

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The Dancing With the Stars Season 14 finale led Tuesday in total viewers this week, while American Idol‘s Season 11 performance finale drew the night’s best demo rating.

Both reality contests were down sharply from a year ago, however, hitting all-time demo lows for a finale/performance finale, respectively. READ MORE


Dancing With the Stars Season 14 Finals Recap: Who Should Win the Mirrorball Trophy?

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With the Mirror Ball trophy so tantalizingly, realistically within the grasp of any of our final three couples, this week’s dances — one redux chosen by the judges, along with the all-important Freestyle — showcased just how far William Levy, Katherine Jenkins and Donald Driver have come during Dancing With the Stars‘ 14th season.

Better still, with ABC allotting just an hour for the six dances, the focus stayed squarely on fancy footwork at hand, and not so much on …READ MORE


Dancing With the Stars Week 9 Results Recap: And Then There Were Three…

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The distance between great and amazing is quite small on this season of Dancing With the Stars — really, all four couples remaining at the beginning of this week’s results show were qualified to progress to next week’s final grab at the Mirrorball Trophy. But only three did, and maybe not the three you’d have expected. Here’s how the semifinal week of DWTS played out: …READ MORE


Dancing With the Stars Week 9 Performance Recap: Semis? Sweet!

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Over the last couple of months, we’ve seen eight charming couples lose their grips on the coveted Mirrorball Trophy — I can still see the tracks of Sherri Shepherd’s tears in my mind — but with the Season 14 semifinals upon us — and one couple about to fall short of the finale (and the freestyle round) — the potential for even greater heartbreak was downright palpable.

For my money, any of the four remaining celebs could …READ MORE


Dancing With the Stars Week 8 Results Recap: Two for the Road

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This week’s Dancing With the Stars results show meant twice the trouble for the six remaining competitors, only four of whom will progress to the semifinals next week. Yup, the night’s double elimination meant that two of your ballroom favorites traded in their sequins and bronzer for good. Here’s how it shook out: …READ MORE


Dancing With the Stars Week 8 Performance Recap: 3 for the Show!

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With only a half dozen celebs remaining, Dancing With the Stars producers had to get creative to fill an increasingly empty ballroom floor — not to mention two hours of airtime — for Monday night’s Week 8 performance show.

But, of course, where there’s a will — and 15 million eager viewers — there’s a way. READ MORE


Dancing With the Stars Week 7 Results Recap: A Matter of Taste

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Now that the two-left-feeters are long gone, deciding which Dancing With the Stars Bottom 2 couple hits the road “really is a matter of taste,” Bruno pointed out during this week’s results show. So what taste did the judges prefer: mature and pithy or youthful yet petulant? Let’s review how things shook out: …READ MORE


Dancing With the Stars Week 7 Performance Recap: Whatever Happened to Class(ical)?

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With vivid memories of our celebs shakin’ their groove things to the energetic sounds of rock and Motown over the past few performance episodes, the tricky U-turn into the comparatively serene strains of classical music for Week 7 of Dancing With the Stars had the potential to feel a tad disconcerting.

Would Mozart or Vivaldi inevitably bring out the best in opera star Katherine Jenkins? Would this shift in mood expose the Achilles’ heels of certain testosterone-laden counterparts (i.e., Donald Driver and William Levy)? …READ MORE


Dancing With the Stars Results: How Do You Judge a 'Dance Duel' With a 47-Year Age Gap?

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This week’s Dancing With the Stars results weren’t exactly a huge surprise: R&B legend Gladys Knight, who’d finished at the bottom of the Judges’ Leaderboard, and Disney star Roshon Fegan, second-to-last at the end of Monday night’s Motown-themed performances, found themselves in the Bottom 2 couples.

But here’s where it gets tricky: …READ MORE