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Post by TallPaul on Jan 22, 2018 13:18:22 GMT
I've just seen an advert for the tour on the side of a bus. It's being sold as Torvill and Dean's Dancing on Ice.
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Post by wickedgrin on Jan 22, 2018 14:47:25 GMT
Yes, I understand they are actually skating on the tour. I suppose they need to shift tickets....I can't see this crop of celebs selling very many.
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Post by TallPaul on Jan 22, 2018 14:53:06 GMT
When you've grown up with them, it's all too easy to forget that Torvill is already 60, and Dean isn't far behind. Good Nottinghamshire water, that's what it is!
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Post by ensembleswings on Jan 22, 2018 16:54:13 GMT
I miss Robin as a judge more than I’d ever care to admit. I don’t often find myself agreeing with Jason but I do agree with what he said regarding the skate off. It should entirely be based on that performance, what’s the point in having a skate off if they’re going to base their decision on all the previous skates?
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Post by Tibidabo on Jan 22, 2018 17:05:31 GMT
^But it was only a tiny stumble and after he'd executed 2 mini-jumps and a one-footed turn if I remember rightly, so his difficulty factor was probably higher? Who knows?! There are obvious differences between the skating judges and the dancing judges and I actually quite like that as it adds a bit of frission.
I miss Robin too. It's often forgotten how amazing he was in the shadow of T&D - his jumps were astonishing.
However, there is some dross that needs to GO! I cannot believe the calibre of zelebs - did they learn nothing from the demise of the show before? And having 4 minutes to vote so we don't watch on catch-up doesn't work when no one gives a flying fandangle about most of them.
On another note entirely. Many years ago my lovely grandmother mislaid all the old sweet wrappers she'd saved and glued together.....oh, but you all know where I'm going with this.....😁
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Post by Tibidabo on Jan 28, 2018 20:20:37 GMT
Right. That's it.
I'm never, ever, ever watching again.
Ever.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jan 28, 2018 21:23:25 GMT
Saw it tonight for the first time.
What a naff programme.
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Post by alece10 on Jan 29, 2018 6:59:17 GMT
What's the point in the public not voting for someone only for the judges to put them back in week after week. Makes the public vote a bit redundant.
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Post by jaqs on Jan 29, 2018 11:45:13 GMT
It’s like Fame Academy all over again.
Cheryl is giving all the youngsters a lesson in performance even if her improvements are slight.
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Post by TallPaul on Jan 29, 2018 13:10:56 GMT
I'm never, ever, ever watching again. Now where have we heard that before? (When I said it last week on leaving Her Majesty's Theatre, I actually meant it!)
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Post by lynette on Jan 29, 2018 15:08:10 GMT
There is something fundamentally wrong with this show. Hard to put your finger on it. It might be the very slow, slow way it is presented with the ad breaks and the chit chat. It might be the poor camera work on the ice. Compare the way ice dancing is filmed in the championships, forthcoming Olympics for example. It might be the lack of background to the performers. Compare Strictly's way of dragging in even the non believers. Are the presenters not really engaged in the process. Is the actual ice dancing just crap?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2018 15:12:23 GMT
There is something fundamentally wrong with this show. Hard to put your finger on it. T&D don't dance in this series. That's the problem. I used to love them getting their Bolero out each series. And the dancing.
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Post by anita on Jan 29, 2018 15:18:55 GMT
Previous series's were good but this one is so boring. It doesn't help that of the 12 "stars" [ & I use the term lightly] I've only heard of 4 of them.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jan 29, 2018 16:44:55 GMT
There is something fundamentally wrong with this show. Hard to put your finger on it. It might be the very slow, slow way it is presented with the ad breaks and the chit chat. It might be the poor camera work on the ice. Compare the way ice dancing is filmed in the championships, forthcoming Olympics for example. It might be the lack of background to the performers. Compare Strictly's way of dragging in even the non believers. Are the presenters not really engaged in the process. Is the actual ice dancing just crap? All of the above. Its got ITV tack-o-rama written all over it. I don’t care how much money they have or haven’t thrown at it, it looks and feels cheap and nasty.
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Post by theatreian on Jan 30, 2018 9:02:07 GMT
Although compared to some of the other dross on tv , such as 'celebrity' big brother it is very high brow!I admit its not as good as previous series but in the absence of strictly it will do for now!
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Post by tonyloco on Jan 30, 2018 13:08:34 GMT
Although compared to some of the other dross on tv , such as 'celebrity' big brother it is very high brow!I admit its not as good as previous series but in the absence of strictly it will do for now! I have tried watching this but I keep losing interest and, despite being a devoted follower of the previous series (in the plural), I find this leaves me cold. My biggest disappointment is seeing Jane Torville sitting there on the judging panel and not skating! As an afficianado of classical ballet, I think Jane is one of the few human beings blessed with perfect musicality as a dancer, albeit on ice. In many ways she reminds me of the greatest female dancer I ever saw, namely Dame Margot Fonteyn, whose career I followed in detail from 1960 right through to the end of her partnership with Nureyev. Jane, like Margot, fills every phrase with dancing. She never just moves from one place to another – she makes every movement a musical statement. The fact that she is no longer in the first flush of youth hardly matters when, like Fonteyn at the end of her career, she can still embody the beauty and grace of dance in a way that few others can and she will never lose than inborn talent. Oh, perhaps I had better have a lie down in a darkened room!
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jan 30, 2018 21:03:32 GMT
Although compared to some of the other dross on tv , such as 'celebrity' big brother it is very high brow!I admit its not as good as previous series but in the absence of strictly it will do for now! I disagree. This years DOI makes CBB look like University Challenge.
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Post by justfran on Feb 2, 2018 23:43:46 GMT
I agree with many others that the return of DOI has sadly lost its sparkle. I’ve previously watched every series and been to several tours but have lost interest in this year already and am no longer watching. Too many ad breaks, presenters that are too self interested, odd shaped ice rink, Torvil & Dean better as the trainers than judges.
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Post by Tibidabo on Feb 4, 2018 20:47:27 GMT
I have no idea what the judges see with Jake.
Dan always moves in with his partners!
Didn't particularly like any of them this week. Max was probably the best for me.
How gorgeous were the olympians? Does anyone know if they are serious medal hopes? I've never heard of them.
All I can say is that it's just as well we have the shy, humble human being that is Antony Cotton to save us from this dross on a Sunday night. The world would be a far more dismal place without his meek and modest musings and his unpresuming presence within the proceedings.
Not.
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