Got to Dance
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Host
Co-hosts
Judges: Ashley Banjo, Adam Garcia, Kimberly Wyatt
Broadcast
Shine TV/Princess Productions for Sky1, 3 January 2010 -
Synopsis
Davina McCall oversees a series of nationwide auditions (well, London, Edinburgh, and Manchester anyway), as the show attempts the find Britain's best dancer(s). The auditions take place in glorified tents, the dance domes, with each competitor having just a few minutes on stage to impress the judging panel - Ashley Banjo of Britain's Got Talent winners, Diversity, Hollywood actor, and member of the Tap Dogs, Adam Garcia, and Kimberly Wyatt of girl group, the Pussycat Dolls. Unlike the BBC's similar show, there is no age limit for the participants, and groups as well as solo dancers are allowed to compete.
After each act has performed, with no conferring, the judges each press a yes or a no button on the desk in front of them. The buttons correspond to three stars on the front of the judges desk. A yes vote will turn that judges star gold, a no vote will turn it red. Each act needs two or more gold stars to progress to the judges shortlist. After the result is revealed, the judges offer their critique to the acts, before they leave the stage for a congratulatory/commiseratory hug with their friends and family.
After the auditions are complete, the judges work together to whittle their shortlist of 100 acts down to just 18, who will take part in the live semi-finals. Due to the number of street dance acts, an additional audition took place with six acts taking part in a head-to-head in order to win one of the final three places, and join the other 15 acts in the semi-finals.
In the semi-finals, each week, six acts perform, with the top acts moving on to the live final, where they perform again, for the chance of being crowned Got to Dance champion, and pocketing £100,000.
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Trivia
The programme was originally announced as Just Dance, however it was re-named before airing to avoid a trademark clash.
