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Bass to be paired with a man in DWTS?

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Casting for Dancing With The Stars’ new season is currently underway and most of the speculation is revolving around erstwhile N’Sync outer Lance Bass. The talk is whether he will be paired with another man if ever he is included in the cast.

Opinions are mixed about the possibility of man-on-man action on TV. DWTS’ Cheryl Burke thinks it may not happen. She says America may not yet be ready to see two men dancing. But DWTS first season winner Kelly Monaco says she’s all for the idea.

Personally, I’d love to see DWTS really push the envelope with Bass in case he does agree. It’s just dancing, for chrissakes!

Chmerkovskiy quits Dancing with the Stars?

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Dancing with the Stars sixth season will start without pro dancer
Maksim Chmerkovskiy. However it’s not true that the hot dancer — who brought his celebrity partners Laila Ali and Mel B. to the finals in two consecutive seasons — is quitting the show. He just needs break. “He is part of the Dancing family, and he will be back,” says his rep.

Apparently the show’s difficult schedule had left him feeling burnt out. “After coming down from two seasons back-to-back, 10 weeks each season — 14 weeks, if you count all of the rehearsals — it puts a lot of pressure on a person and it takes its toll,” the dancer said.

However, fans will get their Chmerkovskiy fix: he will be in special group-choreographed dances.

Paula Abdul to join DWTS?

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Rumors are going around that Paula Abdul wants to join Dancing with the Stars.

It’s weird. She’s a judge on the # 1 show, and a contestant on the # 2 show? But Louis van Amstel says Abdul “loves DWTS” and wants to be part of it.

DWTS exec Conrad Green says “it’s a great story” but is skeptical it could ever happen. “I would imagine that Fox might have something to say about it.” However, there’s nothing in her contract that would stop her.

The big question is whether Paula Abdul’s choreography experience and obvious dancing skills would give her an unfair advantage. . “The only thing we’ve ever said that really excludes people is if they have had professional ballroom or Latin training,” says Green. “. “But I do think the other contestants would probably find it unfair if Paula Abdul came on. That would be like having Michael Jackson saying that he wanted to dance on our show.”

Nielsen’s Top 10 List

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The Nielsen Media Research announced the Top 10 TV shows of 2007.

Leading the pack is the Fox show American Idol, which got a stunning 17.3 rating. It’s the second year in the row for Simon and company, who — despite a really bad selection of contestants — still got the audience hooked. However the numbers are slipping, and if the new season brings another batch of losers, who knows if it’ll still keep the attention of a disgruntled and more discriminating audience.

Another reality shows secured the next top spots: Dancing with the Stars, which got only slightly higher ratings than NBC’s Sunday Night Football. CSI, one of CBS’ best shows, still got in the top 10, but slipped from number 4 to number 7; CSI Miami slipped from number 7 to number 10.

Some new shows got into the Top !0, like Grey’s Anatomy and Samantha Who? House, another Fox hit, made it to the list.

Specials like the Academy Awards and the Superbowl were also part of the top 10 most-watched shows of the year.