About
Dancing on Ice is a British television show co-hosted by Christine Bleakley and Philip Schofield, in which celebrities and their professional partners figure skate in front of a panel of judges.
Originally titled Skating With Celebrities the show was renamed following the failure of ITV’s celebrity orientated 2005 summer schedule. Dancing on Ice is frequently compared to BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing. The BBC actually did a Strictly Come Dancing special entitled Strictly Ice Dancing at Christmas 2004 which was won by England goalkeeper David Seaman.
Each week the celebrities and their partners perform a live ice dance routine. The three (as of series 6) judges (commonly known as the Ice Panel) judge each performance and give a mark between 0.0 and 10.0, depending on the performance. These total scores create a leaderboard which combines with the public vote in order to determine the two lowest placed couples. As this is the case, the pair with the lowest score from the judges can avoid being in the bottom two if the public vote for them.
Once the scores and votes are combined to form the final leaderboard for that week’s show, the two couples at the bottom compete in a final showdown known as the “Skate Off”, where they perform their routine again. Once both couples have performed their routines for the judging panel, the five judges decide on who deserves to stay and cast their votes, based on their second performance. The couple with the most votes from the judges receives a place in the following week’s show, while the couple with the fewest votes leaves the competition.
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Series 1
Tamara Beckwith Sergey Malyshev Eliminated 1st |
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Series 2 |
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series 3 |
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series 4 |
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series 5 |
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series 6 |
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series 7 |