News in Brief: DWTS, Fame, SYTYCD, ABDC,

Interview with Donny *swoons*

Interview with Kevin Tanchoroen, 'new' Fame director, and one with Debbie Allen - promoted to Principal in the update!

Nigel Lythgoe cornered Paul Abdul apparently and got her to agree to being on So You Think You Can Dance - and told everyone on Twitter - would seem to be the perfect show for her, would it not?

Interviews with America's Best Dance Crew's Afroborike, We Are Heroes and Massive Monkees. And the Final rundown, with the champions revealed!

Dancing round the world - the Laguna Festival. The surprise Splash Dance in Cincinatti, check out the video - not a welder in sight. *Note to self: check out the Chocolate Horse*

SCD's It Takes Two round up will follow tomorrow morning - too many interruptions tonight!

Dancing With The Stars are Go!

Dancing With The Stars first night report - unfortunately it looks like the videos are a no go for the UK - courtesy of the L.A.Examiner - it was the men out first but they also had two dances, a foxtrot or cha cha and a relay dance, Salsa or Viennese Waltz -I'm intrigued, hopefully Trav can explain - I've assumed it's a group dance for just four couples, with each taking a turn in the spotlight. I shall see what I can find on Youtube!

America's Best Dance Crew - Two left standing!

Some of the Strictly Come Dancing ladies brave the make-up free zone!

There's terrific little magazine you can subscribe to - it's South East based but is full of lovely dancing bits and bobs - not least this isssue, which has an article about Vincent Simone, complete with cute pictures of when'e'were'tlad.

BBC Nabs So You Think You Can Dance! Woohoo!

And OH YES! Nigel Lythgoe is bringing SYTYCD to the BBC in January (auditions beginning in Oct) and having seen footage of the American counterpart, I'm convinced it won't be a dance version of X-Factor; we'll only see the absolute cream of who they find, to fight it out for the title of Britain's Favourite Dancer. So from January we'll have SYTYCD on the Beeb on Saturdays, Dancing on Ice on ITV on Sundays and Just Dance on Sky (which I don't have and won't be getting so I'll just wing that one) *Hugs self with excitement* Arlene Phillips is set to be on the judging panel for SYTYCD and rumours are they'll bring Cat Deeley back over to present; Davina will be presenting Just Dance.

And other news in brief ...

Strictly has entered the Guinness Book of Records, as the most successful reality show!

Butlin's are holding a Dance weekend, with Ian and Camilla their star turn *wonders if hubby will mind me going away with friends*

Dancing With The Stars Tony Dovolani tells how he became hooked on dance.

America's Best Dance Crew news, they're down to the final four.

Here's an intriguing article - on tennis's connection with ballet!

Craig Kelly admits he's never danced a step!

SYTYCD, SCD, ABDC - News in Brief

Some excellent articles and interviews from all over the place today!

Dance Premier League - no, you don't have to suffer Wayne Rooney attempting to cha cha, this is India's upcoming show courtesy of Sony! A dance league is a terrific idea though, isn't it - and no doubt a Fantasy Dance League would follow - who would you have in your team?

Making a case for America's Best Dance Crew as their top reality dance show.

Stars of Footwork, performing and creating.

SYTYCD judge to host World Championship Dancesport in Canada.

And a charming article/interview with Anton, Erin, Vincent and Flavia (in the Daily Mail, of all places!)

DWTS; Dancing for Housing; Tango Fire! Baryshnikov and ABDC.

Dancing With The Stars has created a new gay show, with SCD judge Bruno Tonioli Show and Tell on-line dance show at Out.com.

DWTS also seem to have adopted the format the British counterpart dropped - same sex nights, with the men taking to the floor first and the ladies a few nights later, according to Pro dancer Maksim!

Erin and Anton, doing their bit for charity with Dancing for Housing.

Tango Fire in Wales - when are they coming to us? It says worldwide - let's have a Google - here we go! Looks fantastic, doesn't it?

Baryshnikov and America's Best Dance Crew news.

SYTYCD marathon; Tango World Champs; Channel Hoppers Anonymous

There's a So You Think You Can Dance marathon before the tour kicks off on 20th September, featuring the Top 10 dancers from Season Five, giving sneak previews of their routines and with numerous prizes up for grabs.

A Japanese couple, Hiroshi and Kyoko Yamao and have outdanced the locals and won the traditional salon category in the World Tango Championships in Buenos Aires. Click here to read more info on the competition and for a gallery of photos - I warn you, it's a big one - but I couldn't access the videos unfortunately - and once you try to you can't seem to get rid of what appears to be an advert trying to pop up, so be warned!

And we think we have it bad with ITV and BBC competing for our affections on a Saturday night - dance fans in America, we sympathize - looks like the channels for the main three dance shows are putting them on head to head - DWTS v SYTYCD v America's Best Dance Crew!