A bloke's view of Strictly Come Dancing (Strictly Come Dancing)

Member Name: stuff10

Product:	Strictly Come Dancing
Date:	26/09/09 (56 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Better than X-Factor

Disadvantages: Very, very, very drawn-out and boring

It's Saturday night, I'm sat at home with the wife and... we're watching Strictly Come Dancing (SCD). It's a programme that's unfortunately become a firm feature in our household over the winter months, much to my disappointment.

For any of you lucky sods that haven't seen it, SCD takes some celebrities gives them a professional dance partner and asks them to perform in front of a panel of judges. The judges then tell em how well (or poorly) they've done and the public get to vote for their best/favourites. Each week, the two couples who are bottom of the leaderboard perform a dance-off against each other and the judges save the one which they think are best. This then continues til what feels like eternity and the week before Christmas we have a winner.

If you couldn't tell, I'm not SCD's biggest fan, but I am made to watch it by the wife. It's presented by Bruce Forsyth and Tess Daly - Tess comes across as a nice lass who's a very good professional presenter. I've not quite made up my mind about Bruce Forsyth yet though - sometimes he's quite funny, but sometimes his "jokes" are pretty cringe worthy! Mind you he is about 300 years old, so we'll give him the benefit of the doubt.

The show itself is very, very, very drawn out - often lasting for 2-3 hours per week, with a regular midweek show as well which can make it all very boring.

So why do I sit through it? Easy - some of the outfits the girls wear are excellent! Short skirts, low-cut tops, fantastic legs and the odd flash of pants too! ;)

It can also be quite entertaining to listen to some of the judges' put-downs as well, with Craig Revel-Horwood being particularly difficult to impress.

So, all-in-all, it is somewhat watchable and will get you into the other half's good books. Plus it's either this or X-Factor and if the wife wanted to watch that I think I'd have to kill myself.

Summary: Keeps the wife happy I suppose