Alec Mazo is the professional dancer. Kelly Monaco is the celeb who is on the soaps apparently, but is probably better known from the pages of Playboy.

I don't know why, but I found myself watching this. It seems more like a reality show my Grandma would watch. I might actually have to keep watching because Evander cracks me up and his partner looks slutty (which is always a good reason to watch something).

The professional male dancers make me want to puke. It's an awkward feeling much like I got watching Constantine, but with less of an eye-raping going on. I don't enjoy it.

I saw the promos but thought it was a GEICO commercial.

here's the thing with ballroom dancing...it's mostly to showcase the women. that's not the official definition, but if you watch any kind of ballroom competition, it's the women's moves, makeup, and costumes that catch your eye, and the men, more often than not, are dressed neutrally, with 'moves' that involve less gymnastic work than the women.

(i love ballroom dancing, by the by.)

so wouldn't that mean that the couples with celebrity MEN would win? i mean, maybe.

Stehanie,

You are so correct. The routines with the celebrity men were much more entertaining because they showcased the professional women.

I liked it in a wierd way. THe "celebrities" are barely even dancing. Holyfield just squng his hips while his partner danced around him. And the over the top gay frenchman was funny in a "I wanna be the next soimon" kinda way.

But the host sucks. Oh god he sucks so so bad. I hate him.

the male professional dancers were awesome in how conceited they were. the first guy claimed he was "every woman's dream," the second guy said "everytime he goes out he knows he's the best looking guy there," and the third guy went on how "it feels great to be worshipped."

I got a lot of flack when I told my friends I tuned in. I thought it was interesting, but not enough to vote. Although I like Trista's performance and John O'Hurley's performance. I don't know if this show will be in my permanant summer rotation, but I'll definitely try and catch it again.

I thought it sucked ass.

It will be interesting to see if the ratings stay up this week. I thought the summer programmers at ABC were on crack when I heard about this show, but it got strong numbers--so strong, in fact, that I read that it's first week numbers were the best of any summer reality show in a few years and nearly on par with those for the original Survivor. So either the curiosity factor was high and ratings will drop off greatly this week, or someone at ABC just won a promotion despite all the snickering.

I didn't even bother...

This is yet another rip-off of a British TV show - one that has, surprisingly, been very popular.

This show was so incredibly cheesy and horrible I actually laughed my ass off, so in some sick way, I was entertained.
I mean, the title alone was enough to crack me up, Dancing with the "Stars". Did I miss something? Who are these people and where are the actual stars?

Oh dear god. That was bad, so very cheesy and bad. I tuned in because I've actually liked watching professional ballroom dancing competitions -- fun and flashy -- but wow, the cheese&cheap factor for this is out of control. And yeah, where are the stars?? Reality and soap flash-in-the-pan celebrities?? Please!

This show is so bad, it's good. By the way, who calls it the cha-cha-cha? Isn't it just the cha-cha. This bothers me greatly.

I call it the Oswald and Danny (cha-cha-cha-okay I know I'm lame) Anyways, I did not catch the show but I think I heard it was good. I am going to watch the next episode.