Dancing With The Stars Spin-Off - Bruno Vs. Carrie Ann Most very successful TV shows have their spin-offs, which are designed to milk the well-liked programmes for all the extra popularity they are able to get, because popularity translates into money (from advertisers or / and subscribers). Dancing with the Stars was no exception. Dancing with the Stars spawned a spin off in which two of its judges, Bruno Tonioli and Carrie Ann Inaba would both lead and coach a group of dancers to see who could turn out the best company. This was comparable to Dancing with the Stars except the judges turned into dancing instructors. The programmes was even hosted by an ex Dancing with the Stars season two winner, Drew Lachey. The programmes aired its first appearance amidst a immense swathe of publicity and hype on January 7th, 2008. It ceased on February 18th, 2008 and sank beneath the waves like a dead guppy, never to be seen again. It was a total flop, an unmitigated disaster. The show began with 14 contestants who had been chosen from locations across the United States. Auditions were held in places like Nashville, Santa Monica and New York City. This fact alone would normally guarantee huge interest from the big cities when people tune in to wish the local boys and girls well. They may have tuned in, but they certainly did not remain tuned in for long. The programmes began badly. Fourteen contestants were chosen but it was too many and they had to let two go. The remaining twelve were split into two teams. The show pulled in more people to watch the first episode than it did for the boring finale. Bruno vs Carrie Ann was a disastrous flop and it has never been seen again, but there have also been other attempts to tap into the huge popularity of Strictly Come Dancing, the British programmes from which Dancing with the Stars is also a spin off. All of these lookalikes are spin offs from Strictly Come Dancing, strictly speaking, not spin offs of Dancing with the Stars. The difficulty with attempting to make spin offs from a show based on a theme like dancing is that once you take the dancing element away, you are left with nothing to build on. They tried to copy the format with Ice Skating with the Stars, but that did not work well either. I ought to imagine too many of the elderly sitars were worried about falling over and looking silly or breaking bones. Come to think of it, their insurance would probably not let them even try it! It will be interesting what they come up with next to attempt to squeeze a bit more cash out of the advertisers: 'Duck Hunting with the Stars might go down well with the 'huntin' and fishin' set' or maybe they would do better to try to come up with something original to entice the voters over to their channel. There is not enough originality about for my liking as it is.
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