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for: Dancing with the Stars (video game) International versions of Dancing with the Stars
Dancing with the Stars is the name of a group of international television series based on the format of the British series Strictly Come Dancing, distributed by BBC Worldwide the commercial arm of the BBC. Presently distributed in 31 countries, Australia was the first country to adapt the BBC show, and versions have also been produced in the USA with Dancing with the Stars, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, South Africa, Sweden, and Ukraine. As a result the format has become the world's most popular television programme across all genres in 2006 and 2007 according to magazine Television Business International, reaching the Top 10 in 17 countries. The show pairs a number of celebrities with professional ballroom dancers, who each week compete by performing dances, which are then given scores by a panel of judges. Viewers are given a certain amount of time to place votes on their favorite dancers, either by telephone or (in some of the shows) by the Internet. The couple with the lowest combined score (judges plus viewers) is eliminated and does not go on to the next week. This process continues until there are only two or three couples left, at which point one couple is declared the champion.
Franchise history
Cheryl Burke, Julianne Hough, Raimondo Todaro and Stefano Oliveri made Dancing With The Stars franchise history by becoming the only professional dancers to win two back-to-back championships, each. Cheryl Burke won her first Dancing With The Stars USA Championship with 98 Degrees boy band member Drew Lachey in the second season and won her second championship with NFL star Emmitt Smith in the third season. Julianne Hough won her first championship with Olympic Speed Skating Gold Medalist Apolo Anton Ohno in the fourth season and her second championship with Indy 500 Champion star Helio Castroneves in the fifth season. Raimodo Todaro won his first championship on the Italian version of Dancing with the Stars called "Ballando con le stelle" with former Miss Italia and Television presenter Cristina Chiabotto in the show's second season and again with Olympic Long Jump Silver Medalist Fiona May during the show's third season. Stefano Oliveri won his first championship on Dancing with the Stars New Zealand with Suzanne Paul, a New Zealand infomercial television star in season 3, and his second in season 4 with Temepara George a New Zealand netball champion. Brendan Cole judges on the New Zealand series and is a regular dancer on the UK version, Strictly Come Dancing, in which he won the first series with newsreader, Natasha Kaplinsky.
In New Zealand, Carol-Ann Hickamore is the only female pro dancer to win. She won the 2nd season with former rugby player Norm Hewitt. Carol-Ann later became a judge in Season 3 and 4 after Season 1 judge Donna Dawson left.
