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Dancing with the Stars 10: The Contestants are Paired Up

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Prime Time, Reality, ABC, Dancing With The Stars, Video,

Last night, ABC revealed the names making up the roster for Dancing with the Stars 10. Today, we learned how those 11 contestants will be paired up.

Although the list is significantly shorter than Season 9’s, the producers managed to squeeze in an entirely new professional (Damian Whitewood) and a familiar face (Ashly DelGrosso).

Analyze the new teams after the jump and give us your early predictions now! DWTS kicks off its new season on March 22.

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The Official Dancing with the Stars 10 Cast

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Prime Time, Reality, ABC, Dancing With The Stars, Gossip,

On tonight’s finale of The Bachelor, Tom Bergeron - with help from former contestant Melissa Rycroft - revealed the newest competitors of Dancing with the Stars.

For the program’s tenth outing, only 11 celebrities will compete for the mirror ball trophy—that’s down from the overloaded 16-contestant season last fall. Like previous rounds, this installment will include another football player, All My Children star, Beverly Hills, 90210 alum and Olympic athlete.

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Do Not Disturb Becomes First Fall Cancellation

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Comedy, Prime Time, FOX, Cancellations,

Well, at least this will give Jerry O’Connell time to focus on becoming a new father.

After only three episodes. FOX’s Do Not Disturb has become the first casualty of the fall season. The show - which was only watched by only 3.5 million this Wednesday - has already been pulled off the schedule. As of October 1, the network will air a one hour block of ‘Til Death (1 original, 1 repeat) for the time being.

While it’s doubtful the show would have succeeded in any circumstance (the producers already acknowledged that the first episode was simply “bad television”), the series never stood a chance during its assigned time slot. Seriously - did FOX honestly think a freshman program could survive against Criminal Minds, Private Practice and Project Runway?

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This Week on TV (6/30-7/6)

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Comedy, Drama, Food & Home, Games, Music, Prime Time, Reality, ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, The CW, Hell’s Kitchen,

(You can view TV Envy’s Summer Television Programming Schedule here.)

• American Gladiators (NBC, 8pm):  “Four amateur athletes who successfully lost weight are featured.” That’s exactly the way Wolf likes them: nice and skinny.
• The Bachelorette: The Men Tell All (ABC, 9pm):  “Fifteen of DeAnna’s suitors dish with - and about - the Bachelorette who let them get away.” Thankfully, this version is not the one we would get on MTV.
• 46664: A Concert for Nelson Mandela (VH1, 9pm): Those helping to celebrate Mandela’s life outside bars include performers who should be behind them (e.g. Amy Winehouse).
• Verminators (Discovery, 10pm):  “The source of a roach infestation at an apartment building shocks Mike.” There’s a reason why they say ignorance is bliss.

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