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FOX Fans: Defend the Hottness Honor of Your Favorite Stars!

Have you been itching for a chance to show your devotion to your favorite FOX characters? Now you have not one but two chances to do just that!

The fine folks at KDVR in Denver are hosting a Battle of the FOX Hotties as we speak. Right now, the Women's bracket is up, but you can still vote in the Men's bracket as well. The second phase of the Men's competition launches Friday, and the second round of Women's matches goes up on Tuesday, February 18 -- so get voting!

Then there's an all networks battle to the death over at the South Florida Sun Sentinel, where CW stars are going up against the juggernauts from the other four broadcast networks. The Bad Boys division (which includes Puck and Peter Bishop -- and Puck is currently losing) is already off the front page, but you can still vote. Keep checking this page throughout the next month to support your fave stars!

* We know, we know -- there are those among you who sneer at such things, who protest that we should focus on the content of the shows and the nuances of the acting rather than the exterior facade of the people who bring our favorite characters to life. And we like to think we do that here... but that doesn't stop us from being able to celebrate the aesthetic pleasures these folks bring to bear. Are we shallow? Maybe. But we are having fun!

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SYTYCD - Yes, Russell, There Is A Santa Claus!

We can barely contain our excitement about the winner of Season 6's So You Think You Can Dance. We confess that we have not had the best track record when it comes to guessing who the voting public eliminated each week, but from the beginning we called Russell and cheered for him...and you, loyal, smart, talented, and witty public, you did too. Bravo, you! We should buy you a drink the next time we see you. You've earned it.

Loved that there were three guest judges and that each of the judges was allowed to pick at least one routine from the season for us to see again. We've missed the guest judges since the auditions were over, and wish we could see more of them. Ah well, season 7 auditions are not so very far off.

Which of the guest judges would you like to see as a full time judge?(survey software)

Check out more about the season finale after the jump!

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SYTYCD - Dear Santa, We Want a Pony, World Peace, and Russell to Win.

We're trying not to hyperventilate over the finale performances on this week's SYTYCD. It's almost impossible. It was lovely to finally see Ashleigh and Ryan dance together. At last! They were so tender and great together, even if we did want to see them do a cha-cha rather than a contemporary piece. And also a quick interview with the costuming department to tell us why she was in not one, but two nighties tonight.

We don't know what Nigel's talking about when he says that he still thinks Ashleigh has better chemistry with Jakob than she does with Ryan. We almost wonder if there's something about Ryan that rankles Nigel a bit. We also think that both Ryan and Jakob do a fantastic job of partnering with all of the female dancers and that chemistry is something they both project in spades, regardless of dance partner.

SO there is a lot to think about this week. All the performances are in. Tomorrow a single winner will be announced.

Why do we continue to sing Russell's praises? Find out after the jump!

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SYTYCD - Don't Make Us Revoke Your Voting Privileges, America.

We're gobsmacked with the results of the SYTYCD competition this week. Granted, whatever the results were, this probably would have been our reaction. But REALLY!? Mollee and Legacy? Really? Are you trying to shake our faith in the great democratic model? Because you are.

Mollee has just exploded and shined for her last 4 routines in the last 2 weeks. It's been so gratifying to watch her grow and grow up. We wanted to go give her a big squeeze when she was so crestfallen but obviously concentrating on being gracious and a good sport. Her heartfelt thanks to the judges just about broke our heart and we were a tiny bit bewildered that she was the pick to go home after that lovely Viennese waltz and the Broadway number. We are 100% sure that her career is going to be spectacular, though, and that's a comfort. After college though, we hope.

More after the jump!

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SYTYCD - Grace Under Pressure

This week's SYTYCD had us bewildered as to how anyone could possibly choose between the dancers. Every one of them has something unique and brilliant to offer, and we're so glad that we are not the ones who have to decide who makes it to the finale next week and who goes home tonight. We're even struggling to come up with any sarcasm.

Jakob and Mollee's Viennese waltz, above, was spectacular. We liked Mollee's former partner Nathan well enough, but seeing her just explode in these last two weeks makes us think she was being held back. Her maturity and performances have really been unexpectedly fantastic. She waltzed as though she'd been waltzing this since early childhood. The waltz seemed effortless, serene, and joyous. Bravo, Jakob and Mollee!

Check out the other amazing performances after the jump!

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SYTYCD - Eight Is Enough

The first SYTYCD results ep since we've established the top 10 was a nail biter! Honestly, we don't want anyone to go home. They're all so great and have a range of different styles, and they each bring something to the table that we would miss very much.

Follow after the jump to see who earned the fewest votes!

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SYTYCD - Cape Fear

The first Top Ten show of SYTYCD was full of memorable moments. We love that we've moved on to the leg of the show where the dancers are voted for individually, the judges no longer eliminate, and all the old pairings were split up and randomly reassigned.

It made for some very interesting moments -- some spectacular...and others less so.

See Nigel's favorite routine of the season after the jump!

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SYTYCD - the hardest elimination

So yesterday on So You Think We Can Dance we had the Top 12, and now we have the Top 10. Ouch. The judges had to figure out which two dancers to cut from what will be a national, city-by-city tour, but they could only choose from the three couples who didn't get enough votes to make them safe. Then, individually, each dancer had an opportunity to convince the judges to keep them on via a solo routine.

Some did better than others. More after the jump.

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SYTYCD - How can you make us choose???

Oh, how can you be so cruel to us, So You Think You Can Dance? How in the world are we going to choose who to cut out of the coveted "Top 10"??? We're down to 12 people -- six amazing couples -- and multiple performances tonight that gave us chills. This cut could be one of the most painful of the season. There are some amazing dancers up there on that stage, and as Adam Shankman said, it's a pleasure to sit here and watch them do their thing.

Sure, not every number knocked our socks off, but each couple had a chance to perform twice tonight, and if they were a little forgetable in one piece they were amazing in the next. After the jump we will go into detail on who killed it tonight in both numbers, and who had one of each.

Which couple do you think will get the *fewest* votes?(survey software)

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SYTYCD - It's hard to say goodbye

Alas, contemporary is just not our thing! It's just not! Sigh. All we could do was stare quizzically at our screen during the entire performance above on So You Think You Can Dance. Sure, they're supposed to be statues in a museum, but then... what? Weird. But the judges and audience seemed to love it, so yay.

And then it was two contemporary dancers vs. a hip hop guy for the male solos. Once again, we just didn't get it. We enjoyed Kevin's performance. It was impressive. (Though none of them were as impressive as in their auditions.) But apparently the two contemporary dancers impressed the judges more. Grrr.

On the other hand, everyone agreed the Bollywood exhibition dancers were fabulous. Photos and discussion after the jump.

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SYTYCD - Seven Couples

We're down to just seven couples on So You Think You Can Dance, and things are getting tough. We loved so many of them, we can't really guess who will be at the bottom. Sure, the judges expressed their opinions, but we thought they were crazy. More on that later. We're going to give you photos once again, in order of what we thought were best to not-so-best. It's so tough this week, though. We thought everyone was great.

But greatest was Ryan and Ellenore with their contemporary routine. They didn't do so great last week, so there was probably some extra incentive there, but they even made us like contemporary. We who haven't been big fans of that genre up till now were glued to the screen, drinking it all in. Fabulous!

More photos after the jump.

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SYTYCD: The Great And Powerful Public Has Spoken

Wednesday's So You Think You Can Dance was the first live results show of the season and it had some real surprises. The opening cast-wide number was fun in a sort of Scorpion King meets Road Warrior way. What's amazing to us was given how the costumes obscured most of the dancer's identities unless the viewer really concentrated, Russell (yes, he's still our fave) and Ryan really popped on camera.

We were lulled into a sense of security by the Judge's comments Tuesday night, two of whom thought that Nathan and Mollee were the couple who needed to be most worried. So much pish posh! Apparently Nathan's adoring fans kept the couple safe. He certainly garnered his share of squealing from the audience.

Find out who was cut after the jump!

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SYTYCD: Audience Participation

Tonight we got eight engrossing performances on So You Think You Can Dance, and now it's up to the audience to point the finger at who will be on the chopping block tomorrow. We have to say wow, what a wide range of material! We were blown away a few times, worried a lot more. We were really hoping there would be another stunner like the Bollywood piece from last week, but we're forced to admit that we just weren't all that stunned this week.

So, in honor of audience voting finally opening up, we're going to go right ahead and list the performances we liked most to least in order of our preference -- starting with that one right up there.

Karen and Kevin were a ton of fun to watch -- doing the hustle of all things. We usually like these guys, but tonight they were especially great as they really had the chemistry. We swoon!

Now, vote in our poll, then see our own personal rankings after the jump.

We know it's really all about the costumes. Which ones do you think are best?(trends)

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SYTYCD - Say It Isn't So

This week as we watched So You Think You Can Dance, we were pretty grumbly about everything from costumes to baseball to who had to dance for their lives. But only because we have such high expectations and affection for the whole shebang. (How can you not love a show that produces scenes like the above -- thanks, Jakob and Ashleigh!)

This time the judges once again chose who went home, thanks to the World Series -- apparently this national pastime thing takes up so much primetime they can't fit in a results show again this week. Whatever. It's not so bad when the judges completely agree with us, but when we have irreconcilable differences with them -- like tonight -- we're left shaking our fists at the sky and plaintively asking "Why??? Why couldn't this have been left to a phone vote!?!"

Tell us in the poll (and comments!) if we were all alone in these sentiments tonight. More after the poll and the jump.

What was going through your head when Nigel announced who was out?(online surveys)

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SYTYCD - First Elimination Round

Oh Brandon. Brandon, Brandon, Brandon. We barely knew you. Seriously, you were put into a pretty impossible position and we were sad to see you cut from So You Think You Can Dance before you really had a chance to show us what you could do. Eliminations from the top 20 started tonight, but it wasn't a matter of voting from the audience -- the judges chose which guy and which girl was sent packing.

At the end, we had no idea which two women would have to dance for their lives, but alas, we were pretty sure you would be on the chopping block. You and Pauline were an absolutely adorable couple. You had some of the best chemistry, and we enjoyed watching your waltz, but in a year where everyone else knocks it out of the ballpark every time... well... sorry. We look forward to seeing you next year, if the rules get bent enough that we can do that.

More after the poll. And the jump.

Should they bend the rules and let Brandon come back for season 7?(polls)

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SYTYCD - Early Elimination!!!!!

Okay, not exactly an elimination, but a significant change in So You Think You Can Dance Season Six Top 20. We really thought Billy Bell was going to be one of the final two, but not this year. Via an official press release, came the announcement that Billy had to drop out due to illness.

A quick tour of the various sources around the Internet (Did you know Billy has a fan page on Facebook? Now you do. Go sign up there as a fan of his to keep in touch.) provides no further details, except that Billy was just released from the hospital on Sunday and his family is asking that fans respect their privacy. Yikes. We're all sending Billy best wishes on a speedy recovery and we hope to see him doing great things in the near future. He's got a ton of talent.

But where does that leave So You Think You Can Dance? Well, the show must go on. And taking Billy's place in the Top 20 is a face you may remember.....

Say hello to Brandon Dumlao, a hip-hop dancer from Concord, CA. Yep, that makes FOUR men from the ranks of hip-hop this year. Those of us who are huge hip-hop fans are having a hard time containing our enthusiasm, we're sad to say. (We were really sad to see Brandon cut from the top 32 and can't wait to see more of this cutie.)

The change in the line-up didn't happen prior to filming the show-off special that aired last night, so we didn't get to see Brandon strut his stuff there, but he'll be appearing in tonight's broadcast of the first elimination round. We hope to see him stick around a good, long time. Welcome, Brandon!

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SYTYCD - Top 20 Show Off Special

What a night on So You Think You Can Dance! It was really great to watch a bunch of performances without having to worry about who would be going home. And we loved seeing the variety of styles, the colorful costumes, and the enthusiasm from dancers, judges, and audience alike.

We weren't wild about all of the choreography (sorry choreographers! we know you're all famous and stuff, we're just the uninformed public here) but we didn't see any dancers struggling through uniformly difficult performances. We don't know how they're going to make any decisions this year about who stays and who goes. These folks are fantastic.

More detail (and more photos!) after the jump. But first, pick your early favorite in our poll.

Yeah, we know it's a little early, but who do you pick for the winner?(answers)

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SYTYCD - Top 20 At Last!

It's been exhausting -- emotionally, physically, regionally -- but So You Think You Can Dance has finally whittled the dancing horde down to just 20 of the best in the nation. And seriously? They're FANTASTIC. This is going to be an amazing season. Three tap dancers made it through (no tap dancer has made it to the top 20 ever before) plus a krumper (our favorite!) a b-boy (we have our doubts, but the judges saw more of his performances than we did) and an adorable hip-hop specialist. We can't wait to see how these guys grow through the insanely tough challenges ahead of them.

The women have less variety when it comes to dance genre, but more variety when it comes to skin color. We're thrilled to see the diversity of experience, personality and ethnicity. They were all very happy for each other as they came through the curtain tonight and announced they made it. We hope they can live together in the same spirit. There were lots of tears again this week. Tears while they waited nervously to hear how they did. Tears if they got cut. Tears if they didn't. Tears if their friends got cut. We just wanted to give them all a big hug. More after the jump.

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SYTYCD: Tears for Fears

This week emotions were running high on So You Think You Can Dance.The cuts were so brutal -- people we thought would definitely make it to the top 20 were sent away. People who came super-close to making it to the top 20 last year? Gone. And Iveta -- the dance champion who grew up in the Soviet Union, remember her? Gone. Yikes. And there was so much to pack into this episode, we didn't even get to see the performance that sent her home.

They pulled no punches and drove the dancers like there was no tomorrow -- and for so many, there wasn't. It seemed like they were being sent home by the bus-load.

And did we mention the crying? Everyone was crying by the end of this episode. Of course those who were cut were crying -- we're used to that. And the two injuries brought on tears as well. But this time those who made it to the next round were sobbing too, and by the end of the second day, even the judges were crying! More about all the emotion after the jump.

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SYTYCD - VEGAS, BABY!!!!!

At last, So You Think You Can Dance has narrowed down the entire nation of dance competitors to just 152 on one stage showing off all kinds of genres as they compete for the top 20. Those are some grim odds, and seeing only the best from each audition city all mixed up together was pretty intense.

Starting out with solos up against solos allowed the dancers to show off their strengths again, but it also showed pretty starkly who was out of their depth here in Vegas. They cut 41 people just from seeing the solos, then they moved on to teaching choreography from specific styles. That's where we got to see who was too focused on a single form to truly be great across the board -- and who could "bring it" no matter what the music sounded like. (Can you believe the krumper doing ballroom? AMAZING!!)

What quality is the most important for a dancer to show?(polls)

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February 10, 2010

FOX Fans: Defend the Hottness Honor of Your Favorite Stars!

December 16, 2009

SYTYCD - Yes, Russell, There Is A Santa Claus!

December 15, 2009

SYTYCD - Dear Santa, We Want a Pony, World Peace, and Russell to Win.

December 9, 2009

SYTYCD - Don't Make Us Revoke Your Voting Privileges, America.

SYTYCD - Grace Under Pressure

December 3, 2009

SYTYCD - Eight Is Enough

December 1, 2009

SYTYCD - Cape Fear

November 26, 2009

SYTYCD - the hardest elimination

November 25, 2009

SYTYCD - How can you make us choose???

November 18, 2009

SYTYCD - It's hard to say goodbye

November 17, 2009

SYTYCD - Seven Couples

November 12, 2009

SYTYCD: The Great And Powerful Public Has Spoken

November 11, 2009

SYTYCD: Audience Participation

November 4, 2009

SYTYCD - Say It Isn't So

October 28, 2009

SYTYCD - First Elimination Round

October 27, 2009

SYTYCD - Early Elimination!!!!!

October 26, 2009

SYTYCD - Top 20 Show Off Special

October 22, 2009

SYTYCD - Top 20 At Last!

October 14, 2009

SYTYCD: Tears for Fears

October 8, 2009

SYTYCD - VEGAS, BABY!!!!!