[Speed Gibson,
Saturday September 16, 2006 at 2:28am]
Dancing with the Stars
It's back! Dancing with the Stars has started its third season.
As I wrote during the second season, this show is a masterpiece of production, and it's almost totally live. Very talented, professional dancers are paired with some unlikely celebrity amateurs, including Jerry Springer and Tucker Carlson this time. The set is grand, the costumes elegant and sexy.
Tucker was awful, and sent packing as the first one eliminated. But the staging, the lighting, and the music even make that watchable.
I particularly love the incredibly rich sound that musical director Harold Wheeler gets out of his 15 piece orchestra. The arrangements are top notch, too, showing great creativity, too, like morphing a Dick Dale surfing number to a Latin cha-cha number.
Now this is must-see TV!
As I wrote during the second season, this show is a masterpiece of production, and it's almost totally live. Very talented, professional dancers are paired with some unlikely celebrity amateurs, including Jerry Springer and Tucker Carlson this time. The set is grand, the costumes elegant and sexy.
Tucker was awful, and sent packing as the first one eliminated. But the staging, the lighting, and the music even make that watchable.
I particularly love the incredibly rich sound that musical director Harold Wheeler gets out of his 15 piece orchestra. The arrangements are top notch, too, showing great creativity, too, like morphing a Dick Dale surfing number to a Latin cha-cha number.
Now this is must-see TV!