Comments on: Airdate: Dance Your Ass Off

By: Carl

Carl — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:53:25 +0000

i think its obvious this show is an insult to the viewing public. and the fact its on at prime time just rubs salt on the alreay gangrene wound…

i am glad i dont watch much tv at all…

they need some new material and new ideas,
seems everything now is a clone or some reality spin off, or a chef thing etc. its all the same crap.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:14:37 +0000

There is one thing funnier than CH9 serving this c#@p up to us….
and that is the fact that people in North America pay to watch this sort of show.
That makes me laugh!

By: H1NG0

H1NG0 — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:01:56 +0000

Great….dancing grilled cheese hamburgers. Just what Australian TV was missing. What is this competing with

By: Oscar

Oscar — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:22:23 +0000

I assumed “Dance Your Ass Off” was some elaborate joke. It sounds like a slow episode of Saturday Night Live, combining SYTYCD with The Biggest Loser for strained laughs…

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:10:35 +0000

I know I’m only adding my voice to a chorus here but Nine is increasingly looking like Ten circa 2008 or worse Seven circa 2004, the wheels have well and truly fallen off and I second the comments about the inept programmer in charge of this operation – among this year’s stupid, stupid moves…

Pulling high rating 10.30 shows like ER and Survivor off the air
Failing to capitalise on the huge audience for Underbelly
Treating the CSI spinoffs as spac-filler resulting in some markets missing out on eps, CSI Miami running out of sync between Sydney and Melbourne, 9.30 Sundays turned into the CSI mystery wheel where you don’t know what version you’re going to get.
The fumbling of the final season of Without a Trace
The near fumbling of Cold Case
The fumbling of Celebrity Singing Bee
Axing their travel disaster show after one bad Ashes affected performance
The whole sorry Mark Ferguson affair
Getting cold feet on making HomeMADE a strip
Buying HomeMADE in the first place
Buying an extra series of Ladette to Lady before seeing how the current one turned out
Pairing Two and a Half Men with Half-Assed factuals
Scheduling (then not promoting) really boring Friday movies in AFL markets
Promoting their “superior” news coverage in the wake of the Michael Jackson death only to have it completely undermined by Richard Wilkins’ reporting of Jeff Goldblum’s death!

By: JohnTV

JohnTV — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:50:31 +0000

The scheduling of this program and its subsequent failing does raise one of the most interesting questions in Australian TV.

What photos does Michael Healy have of David Gyngell/James Packer ? That is the only reason why I can see he still has his job after failing to deliver a schedule for Nine that actually works or even comes close to working. Or maybe he has the job because no-one else in the country wants it.

By: George

George — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:07:31 +0000

@gerrard:

It is. I wanted to vomit. :’( So much jiggling..

By: DAN

DAN — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 09:56:43 +0000

1 week and 2.5 men or 20 to 01 will be back

By: gerrard

gerrard — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 05:14:56 +0000

The costume the girl’s wearing in the photo looks outrageous from what I can see. I am going to watch it for a good laugh.

By: George

George — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 04:49:18 +0000

Ugh, Nine! Just because The Biggest Loser rates well doesn’t mean fat people jiggling around a stage will.

If it was aired at like 2AM then I wouldn’t have a problem, but prime time? Seriously?? What on earth are you guys thinking? Is it just me or is Nine becoming what TEN became last year with their ratings crash, constantly moved around shows and pretty horrid shows aired?

By: Jed

Jed — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:01:10 +0000

They obviously don’t want to show it so they put it on then so they can axe it 2 weeks later. Just give up Nine. You’re hopeless.

By: Andrew B

Andrew B — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:31:53 +0000

Why bother watching when we all know it will be off after 3 weeks? 1st one will do OK, 2nd one below 1 million, 3rd lower. No 4th. Look at Trouble in Paradise.

And yes, the show’s a bad idea best suited to a later time slot or better yet – Arena or something on Foxtel. 9 to be 3rd on Tuesdays still…

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:09:16 +0000

Old Kerry would have sacked most of the senior staff before the network got to this point.

This really is a desperate move. The show looks and sounds like a niche cable tv stle program neither designed nor intended for the bigger scope of free-to-air. They must known this is not going to work so it seems silly to even try.

By: Russell

Russell — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:31:30 +0000

Sad state of Australian TV when trashy US cable imports like this and Seven’s “True Beauty” fill prime network real estate.

By: nick

nick — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:41:54 +0000

thank you TomK, exactly right. This is one of the many reasons why the so called ‘Nine Haters’ say mean and nasty comments about their beloved network – airing trash like this in a prime slot. They’ve taken off Trouble in Paradise prematurely, too bad if u were into it. Just foolish, irresponsible programming in my opnion.

Imagine the difference if Mr Packer were alive.

By: Jerome

Jerome — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:39:57 +0000

i just saw the ad for this and OMG they haven’t even tried to make it look good. hasn’t got a chance against generation, the factuals, rafters and NCIS.

i’m usually one to respect others opinion but anyone that decides to watch this american trash over aussie great quality shows deserves to be shot.