Dancing on Ice

This show died ( deservedly so). Why it was brought back is beyond me. Bubble gum for the brain. Inane in the extreme, but since the demise of PS, it has now (hopefully) once again started to circle the plug hole of doom.

Clearly ITV look at successful BBC shows, and then after a bit of think, tend to always come up with a variant that is much much worse than the BBC original, but has a much needed twist to dumb it down for a less demanding audience.

Even the introduction of a less than capable Blackpool magician co-host neither diminishes nor improves a programme that is now so awful, so lacking in any redeeming features that ITV need to pull the plug asap.

It's astonishing to think that a bunch of Z list "celebrities" wobbling around on ice skates is considered entertainment. Depressingly awful.

Please ITV, put this moronic rubbish out of its misery...,but this time, bury it properly (and permanently).

I saw it as show especially for fans of ice skating. Provocative, no doubts, seductive, interesting for emotions, costumes, jury decisions. But the format is only nuanced by other TV shows, the presence of stars has only the role for high level of audience, the judgment seems , in few occasions, profound subjective.

Short, a TV show. Like so many others.

Well. What can I say. Same format. OK different hosts!!. Really really need to revamp. Watched it religiously over the years and thourely enjoyed it - but getting a bit stale now. Actually switched over due to being bored.

REVAMP OR SCRAP.

Just one thing Jane And Christopher are legends. Don't let them be dragged down by the show that is now getting stale.

We looked forward to the show after strictly. It was a Sunday night highlight. Not any more. Its that's there is nothing else on so let's watch. We both end up playing on our phones. Sorry. Revamp show, spice it up or scrap. Same format, same show, same outcome. BORED.

Yet another fix so upset tonight that Eddie was voted off Eddie skated on his own Amber yet again as usual won't let go of skaters hand no skating on her own just gets tossed about by the professional skater bored now she should have gone home not Eddie Mods were better than the rockers but because its the Adele show they let them win another fix Adele will win because of illness and sympathy vote but I won't know as will not watch again due to fixed voting Glad Ashley banjo has gone he knows nothing just a street dance troupe at Butlins Eddie you were the best we loved watching you every week in fact we looked forward to watching your routines so sorry you were booted out too good for this show.

You really have to commend whoever it is at ITV who comes up with new programme ideas. It must take a lot of imagination to turn to the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing and then come up with a completely undetectable fresh slant on the format. It is a bit like their recent take on the Dragon's Den, even featuring one of the same entrepreneurs to make it even more subtle.

Of course like almost every television show these days it has to feature 'celebrities' who hardly anyone has ever heard heard of. The latest line-up has just been revealed and what a surprise. Tom Cruise? No. Halle Berry? No. David Beckham? No. Lisa Scott-Lee (Steps), Stephen Gately (Boyzone) and Duncan Something or other (Blue)? Yes. Singers whose solo career has hardly been record-breaking, indeed they would probably have to buy several hundred of their own singles just to get into the charts at all. Then there is the newsreaders, the obligatory soap star, the even more obligatory Ulrika Jonsson and some others who struggle to get on TV by their own merit.

That is my only really major problem. The rest of the show is great if you like watching or performing ice skating and it is certainly not much worse than the BBC dancing show, though there was far too much carrying of certain skaters in the last series (e.g. Bonnie Langford) that takes away a little of the credibility. I just don't know why they can't create this sort of talent programme using 'ordinary' people. The public voting is often unfair as they are probably more likely to vote for participants they have heard of (if any). "Stars in their Eyes" used to score high in the rating without resorting (apart from specials) to the increasing number of z-listers there are out there, especially created it seems to appear in 'reality' TV. I simply cannot understand why if these people are apparently so popular they need to appear on these shows. I suppose you must give the participants some credit for doing something that requires skill, dedication and significant physical risk compared to sitting around in a house, on an island or in the jungle - all moaning and swearing. Overall though this means that yet again we fail to get any break in the schedules between 'celebrity' this and 'celebrity' that as by the time 'Celebrity Big Brother' is finished we will be onto another series of 'Dancing on Ice.' Have the producers no pity?