Strictly Come Dancing

Strictly Come Dancing is a British dance contest show first broadcast in 2004. The title is an amalgamation of the titles of the 1992 Australian film Strictly Ballroom and the original BBC show Come Dancing, which ran between 1950 and 1998.

The show consists of a series of couples, made up of one celebrity and one professional dancer, who compete in a weekly knockout competition to reach the final. Their live studio performances are scored by a panel of judges, and public voting takes place after the main show (typically on Saturday evenings), with the results revealed the following evening in a dedicated show.

Celebrity contestants usually achieve a high level of proficiency in various dance disciplines (ballroom, latin, free-style etc.) The format of 'Strictly' has been sold by the BBC to many countries worldwide under the name of Dancing With the Stars (translated literally in some languages.

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