Hey Gasmii, I had the chance to hop on a conference call with Nigel Lythgoe And Michael Flatley in support of their new show, Superstars of Dance, premiering tonight at 9PM on NBC. Superstars of Dance is basically an entertainment dance competition show where eight countries compete against each other for a title...It's basically like the Olympics for dance. The countries competing on the series are Argentina, Australia, China, India, Ireland, Russia, South Africa and the United States.

Here's the interview, enjoy:

Nads: Hi Nigel! Can you tell me how Superstars of Dance differs with other dancing shows?

Nigel: Well I think with the shows that we know like Dancing With the Stars, that's a bunch of celebrities who would like to dance. My own show, So You Think You Can Dance is a bunch of kids who would like to be dancers. And this is professionals that have been doing it, have made their living through it. A lot of them are world champions in their specific genre, and it's a lot of different cultures coming together. And I think that's what's the most exciting part of it for me.

Nads: Can you tell me a little about the show's format?

Nigel: It's basically - if I give you an overall view, it'll probably show you how the format goes because the format does change. But the easy way to explain it is we have quarterfinals, semifinals and a final - exactly the same as any normal sort of sporting competition. But each team has brought over their own group of dancers and people that can replace them as well, or replacement dancers in case we have any accident. Again, like any sporting team you have reserves waiting there.

And each team has brought over two soloists that - who will compete, a duet that will compete and a group. And the shows, each time - there'll be the eight countries in each show. So in some shows they'll put one soloist and one group. In another show they'll put a soloist and the duet. And this will break down and at the end of the day 16 soloists will have competed.

They will be broken down into the semifinals by getting rid of the bottom eight soloists. And in - we lose two groups and two duets so that in the semifinals you will have three duets and three groups per semifinal. So it's a very interesting competition literally and the most difficult thing, I would say, is judging the different styles against each other. So the judges and the judges from the eight countries as well, each judge votes from one to ten points. They are not allowed to vote for their own country. So it really is a tough competition with, you know, some of the best people in the world dancing and some of the best choreographers in the world judging.