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Rate ABC orders new 'Let's Dance' celebrity dancing reality competition

Original at Reality TV World external link    Thu, Jun 11

 MA In early 2008, the network aired Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann, which featured Dancing with the Stars judges Bruno Tonioli and Carrie Ann Inaba each training a team of non-celebrity dancers who competed against each other. Last summer, it aired Dance ...

Rate Nick, Drew Lachey form TV production company

Original at Cincinnati.com external link    Fri, May 29

Drew won ABC's “Dancing with the Stars” in 2006, and hosted ABC's “Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann” and the “Miss USA” pageant. Nick starred with then-wife Jessica Simpson on MTV's “Newlyweds,” directed Cincinnati's winning “Clash of the Choirs” ...

Rate Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann Between Takes (Interview)

Original at TV.com external link    Fri, May 1

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s Laura Swisher interviews Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli from ABC's Dance War. www.tv.com

Rate 'Dancing With Stars' champ Drew Lachey to speak here March 31

Original at UST Bulletin Today external link    Wed, Mar 18

 MN He later performed throughout the United States and Canada in the 2006-07 "Dancing With the Stars Tour." Lachey also has served as a "Dancing With the Stars" co-host, and was host of ABC's "Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann."

Rate Carrie Ann Inaba blogs 'DWTS,' week 2

Original at Entertainment Weekly external link    Wed, Mar 18

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It's seems like Len, Bruno and you are always fair. On a side note, do Bruno or you keep in touch with the kids on Dance War? It seems like they disappeared and it would be interesting to learn where they are in life. Keep up the good work!

Rate Dancing with the Stars Season 8 cast revealed on Sunday

Original at KCBA external link    Wed, Feb 4

 CA This is the first time ABC has revealed a cast in this format. While the network made a prime-time reveal for Season 6's cast following the finale of Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann, ABC has never spread the announcement over a full night of ...

Rate The Watcher: The best and worst of TV in 2008

Original at OCRegister external link    Wed, Dec 24

 CA - Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann" (ABC) – Take a group of young people who can both sing and dance but can't do either very well. Make them sing and dance ...

Rate Derek Hough and Mark Ballas' band signs with Hollywood Records

Original at Reality TV World external link    Mon, Dec 8    4 related articles

 MA - Dec 8, 2008 After winning ABC's Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann reality series earlier this year, Team Bruno members Kelsey Bourg, Phillip Bernier, Lacey Mason and Zack ...

Rate Music Minute: “Fallin’ In Love” by Team Bruno... (Willys Boys ...

Original at Daily digest of sexy men from QueensSpeech.com external link    Wed, Nov 19

Okay so I never watched this show, but I guess there was a show a while back called “Dance War”. I believe it was on ABC. Anyway the point of this story is there was a kick ass song featured on that show. I found it on DList. Go figure. ...

Rate 'High School Musical' Tour on ABC's 'Dance War' Feb.11

Original at Broadway World external link    Thu, Oct 30

Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann" stars Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli. Drew Lachey hosts. John Hesling is executive producer and Moira Ross is co-executive producer of the series, which is produced for ABC by BBC Worldwide ...

Rate Sweeping away the last eight years

Original at Louisville Courier-Journal external link    Tue, Oct 28

By Kentucky Prophet American retreads of English TV programs. For every "The Office", there's a million shows like "Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann". 4. Hulk Hogan and his family. 5. The Bowl Championship Series. Is it too much to ask for a 4-team playoff? ...

Rate Asian Excellence Awards Attracts Movie & TV Stars

Original at India Journal external link    Fri, Jun 6

Asian Excellence Awards Attracts Movie & TV Stars  CA - The awards show was hosted by Carrie Ann Inaba, who was featured in ABC’s talent competition Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann and has been a judge on all ...

Rate ABC REALITY SHOW ‘DANCE WAR’ A BUST FOR WINNERS

Original at Real Television external link    Mon, May 12

Here’s one reality show that went bust: “Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann.” The six-week reality competition, which aired during January and February on ABC, was supposed to create a supergroup of singers and dancers that would put out a CD and possibly tour the country as an opening act for a...

Rate Second season of Dance War considered even though winners may not ...

Original at reality blurred external link    Sun, May 11

By Andy Dehnart ABC's terrible Dancing with the Stars spin-off Dance War may actually air another season eventually, according to one of its stars. That's despite the fact that the group selected on the first season may never actually produce a record, ...

Rate Dance War’s Zack Wilson Scores HSM3 Job!

Original at Reality TV Magazine external link    Thu, May 1

There's no possible way any woman with a pulse who watched Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann would not remember Zack Wilson on Bruno's team. Hint: he was the super-cute guy who tapped into his inner sex-machine toward the end of the ...

Rate TV dancer Zack Wilson joins 'HSM:3' - United Press International

Original at United Press International external link    Fri, Apr 25

TV dancer Zack Wilson joins 'HSM:3'  - LOS ANGELES, April 25 (UPI) -- Zack Wilson of ABC's "Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann" will be hoofing on the big screen in "High School Musical 3," the ...

Rate Dance your way to a better career - Toronto Star

Original at Toronto Star external link    Mon, Mar 17

Dance your way to a better career   Canada - Mar 17, 2008 Lachey has since parlayed his victory into steady non-dancing TV work, including as host on Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann. The lesson for current ...

Rate Team Carrie Ann from ABC's Dance War Stops By Good Things Utah for ... - ABC 4

Original at ABC 4 external link    Fri, Mar 14

Team Carrie Ann from ABC's Dance War Stops By Good Things Utah for ...  Salt Lake City - Mar 14, 2008 Mariel won our hearts and our votes on Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann. As a thank you for her hometown fans, she brought her entire team to Utah for a ...

Rate Dance War: Winner's Families React

Original at BuddyTV external link    Tue, Feb 19

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By editor@buddytv.com Competitions like Dance War, American Idol, So You Think You Can Dance and Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious certainly build anticipation throughout the season by hyping how “life-changing” a win could be for the selected contestant. And certainly, some American Idol contestants h...

Rate The New Dancing Cast to Appear on The Oprah Winfrey Show

Original at Reality TV Magazine external link    Tue, Feb 19

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By Jennifer_Brown Let’s make that a one-two-three punch for ABC. Punch one — the live announcement on last night’s Dance War of the new celebrity cast for Dancing with the Stars 6. Punch two — the live Good Morning America announcement of the pro-pairings with those celebs. And punch three — a special Dancing-t...

Rate Team Bruno Is Victorious On 'Dance War' Finale

Original at Starpulse.com external link    Tue, Feb 19

Carrie Ann At one point during the "Dance War" finale, I raised my hands to the heavens and yelled, "Enough!" If I'd known that I'd have to watch 75 minutes of Bruno and Carrie Ann talk about things I'd already seen, I would have just ...

Rate Team Bruno Wins Dance War

Original at Reality TV Magazine external link    Mon, Feb 18

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By Jennifer_Brown For nine singers and dancers, it all comes down to tonight. Zack, Kelsey, Lacey, Phillip, Bradley, Chris, Qis, Mariel, and Elizabeth — otherwise known as Team Bruno and Team Carrie Ann — have been working tirelessly for weeks just to get to tonight, the season finale of Dance War: Bruno vs. C...

Rate Dancing with the Stars 6 Cast Revealed

Original at Reality TV Magazine external link    Mon, Feb 18

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By Jennifer_Brown Look to see the following celebrities on Dancing with the Stars 6: Dancing with the Stars premieres Monday, March 17, 8:00 PM (ET) on ABC. is your source of Dancing with the Stars news. For other great reality TV news, please feel free to visit SirLinksALot: Dancing with the Stars.

Rate Team Bruno Wins Dance War in the Longest Two Hours of TV Ever

Original at Idol Thoughts external link    Mon, Feb 18

Don't get me wrong -- there were parts of this show that I really enjoyed, and with a little tweaking I think it could actually be really good. As for this season, Zach, Phillip, Qis and Chris were cute, Lacey and Mariel could really sing, and there were a few numbers that actually featured som...

Rate ‘Dancing With the Stars’ cast revealed tonight

Original at OCRegister external link    Mon, Feb 18

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By The Watcher UPDATE: As commenter BC reports below, radio personality Adam Carolla announced today that he will be on this season, paired with two-time winner Julianne Hough. That should stop her win streak. Do we like the ‘American Idol’ Top 24?     Episode two of ‘Survivor’ ABC’s genuinely awful “D...

Rate Tonight on the Tube: Prison Break, Sarah Connor, Kyle XY & TV Marathons

Original at TVaholic.com external link    Mon, Feb 18

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By Jason the TVaholic Tonight, ABC has the season finale of Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann, The CW has the season premiere of Pussy Cat Dolls Present: Girlicious, FOX has the season finale of Prison Break, and NBC has the series premiere of My Dad is Better Than Your Dad.

Rate Who Will Win Dance War?

Original at Reality TV Magazine external link    Sat, Feb 16

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By Jennifer_Brown Team Carrie Ann (Qis, Bradley, Chris, Elizabeth, and Mariel): Team Bruno (Zack, Phillip, Kelsey, and Lacey): Catch the Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann season finale on Monday, February 18, 8:00 PM (ET) on ABC. Dancing with the Stars 6 premieres Monday, March 17, 8:00 PM (ET) on ABC.

Rate ‘Deal,’ ‘Gladiators’ Continue NBC Monday Streak

Original at Television Week external link    Tue, Feb 12

Extended episodes of “American Gladiators” and “Deal or No Deal” brought NBC another Monday victory (five in a row, for those keeping score), while ABC’s “Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann” sputtered, posting its lowest showing to date in the 18- to 49-year-old demo. According to prelimina...

Rate Dance War Is Officially the Campiest and Least Sensical Show on Television

Original at Idol Thoughts external link    Tue, Feb 12

It's nearly impossible to keep a straight face when the contestants say "Dance War means everything to me. If this was all to end, my dreams would be shattered." Huh? First of all, the show's season finale is next week, so you best be preparing for your "dreams to be shattered." Second of all, ho...

Rate 'Dance War': This Show Is So Fixed

Original at Starpulse.com external link    Tue, Feb 12

Remember when Alice fell down the rabbit hole and suddenly she was gallivanting with mad hatters, talking cards, and swam in a sea of her own tears? Well, none of that happened this week on "Dance War," but the completely illogical chain of events in that story applies to this baffling danc...

Rate Dance War: Carrie Ann Cuts Allysa

Original at Reality TV Magazine external link    Mon, Feb 11

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By Jennifer_Brown ¡El bailar caliente esta noche, bebé! Tonight’s Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann brings us Latin Night, and some of the hottest dancing we’ve seen to date. Carrie Ann chooses to keep Qis, Bradley, Mariel, and Elizabeth, leaving Allysa and Chris to sing it out in the bottom two.

Rate TV Ratings: Monday/Tuesday (2/04-05/08)

Original at Televisionista external link    Wed, Feb 6

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By Justin Van De Kamp In the battle of Monday night reality, ABC's "Dance War" edged out NBC's "American Gladiators" which has lost some steam since the debut. MONDAY: ABC: 8:00pm Dance War (9.77 million) 9:31pm 20/20 (12.63 million) Fox: 8:00pm American Idol (27.79 million) 9:00pm House (23.24 million)

Rate 'Dance War's' Country Night Is As Authentic As The Chinese Food At Panda Express

Original at Starpulse.com external link    Tue, Feb 5

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By Starpulse Magic isn't about making things actually disappear, but it is about the art of distraction. "Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann" is not about dance but about the illusion of dance. "Dance War" is not an actual competition, but the illusion of a competition. We know this because ABC is slowly turni...

Rate Dance War: Yee-haw! Tony Rides off into the Sunset on Country Week

Original at Reality TV Magazine external link    Mon, Feb 4

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By Jennifer_Brown And then Team Bruno blows us away with a hot rendition of These Boots are Made for Walkin’, with Kelsey on lead in her little daisy dukes and all sorts of attitude. The vocals are, again, just okay, but the dancing is spot on, especially when they “walk it out” halfway through the song. Bruno cal...

Rate Dance War: Top 10 Recap

Original at BuddyTV external link    Mon, Feb 4

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By editor@buddytv.com It was Motown/R&B night last week on Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann, and Teams Carrie Ann and Bruno danced and sang to the best of their abilities. Dance War being the kind of reality show in which you wish everyone could succeed, it was so sad to learn that Team Bruno got fewer votes than Te...

Rate There Are Some Horrible Singers On 'Dance War: Bruno Vs. Carrie Ann'

Original at Starpulse.com external link    Tue, Jan 29

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By Starpulse What could have been the most unique aspect to "Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann" was its promise that Bruno and Carrie Ann would put up, shut up, and lay their own dancing skills to the test. What a slick switcheroo, however, to reveal that each team has its own hired choreographer, rendering t...

Rate DANCE WAR CASUALTIES KICK IN

Original at Reality TV Magazine external link    Mon, Jan 28

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By Mary_Montanari Tonioli struggles but decides that Lacey, Phillip, Tony and Zack are safe.  This leaves Charity and Kelsey left to perform one last time for Tonioli.  They sing and dance their heart’s out to “Don’t Leave me this Way” and after one long, last struggle, Tonioli send Charity home keeping Kels...

Rate 'Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann' Recap: Live Television Can Be Harsh

Original at Starpulse.com external link    Tue, Jan 22

Carrie Ann It's another dose of "Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann," and this episode went down as smoothly as chunky peanut butter on dry toast topped with Bubblelicious gum. => Read more!

Rate Dance War Breaks out the Team Talent

Original at Reality TV Magazine external link    Mon, Jan 21

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By Mary_Montanari ShareThis ABC aired the third episode of Dance War tonight after every promotional ad leading up to this series hinted that the real ‘war’ would begin this evening when former “Dancing with the Stars” judges Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli finally got the chance to showcase their resp...

Rate DANCE WAR BREAKS OUT THE TEAM TALENT

Original at Reality TV Magazine external link    Mon, Jan 21

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By Mary_Montanari Hopefully, if you missed last week’s episode, you caught the show tonight because ABC devoted the first 30 minutes of this week’s 90 minute episode by recapping what happened last week.  Basically, we were reminded that Inaba and Tonioli teamed up after going through hours of auditions t...

Rate RTV Predicts…Our Writers’ Takes on Idol, Dance War, and More

Original at Reality TV Magazine external link    Sun, Jan 20    1 related articles

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By Jennifer_Brown Carrie Ann Inaba will wear a longer dress this week. Mary says, ”Carrie Ann Inaba’s  dresses couldn’t possibly get any shorter.  She could barely sit down on  Monday! Carrie Ann kept tugging on her glittery mini dress  whenever she sat down. There was no way she could have worn ‘thigh-high...

Rate Dance War is Like "Open Call: The Musical"

Original at Idol Thoughts external link    Mon, Jan 14

Tonight, 14 kids who don't sing well enough to be on American Idol or dance well enough to be on So You Think You Can Dance performed their hearts out, belting high notes and shaking their asses to choreography that was about a half step away from jazz hands.

Rate Dance War Introduces “Team Bruno” and “Team Carrie Ann”

Original at Reality TV Magazine external link    Mon, Jan 14

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By Mary_Montanari Drew Lachey finally stressed how important the audience votes will be in subsequent episodes and the show ended with Carrie Ann dancing with her team members (Allysa, Bradley, Chris, Elizabeth, Mariel and Quis) and Bruno shaking his booty with Charity, Kelsey, Lacey, Philip, Tony and...

Rate BRUNO AND CARRIE ANN PICK TEAMS AND SEND TWO HOPEFULS HOME, TONIGHT ON DANCE WAR

Original at Realitywanted.net external link    Mon, Jan 14

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By Mark Share This “Episode 102″ — Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli choose their teams of six performers each from among fourteen hopefuls, sending two contestants home, on the next “Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann,” airing live MONDAY, JANUARY 14 (8:00-9:30 p.m., ET), on the ABC Television Netw...

Rate A Daily Show, A Dance War

Original at Louisville Courier-Journal external link    Tue, Jan 8

By ms. p As for Dance War: Bruno vs Carrie Ann. These two are not the most discerning judges I've ever seen. If you weren't complete crap they loved you. I'm also disturbed that they picked the guy with the tail. However, I expect Zack the Chin, ...

Rate I'm Already Obsessed With Dance War!

Original at Idol Thoughts external link    Tue, Jan 8

The producers of Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann were banking on one thing: So You Think You Can Dance + American Idol = can't lose. And guess what... Click to visit Idol Thought's AMERICAN IDOL CENTRAL for show recaps and rankings, news on former contestants, best-of lists and much moreIdol Tho...

Rate ABC Launches “Dance War” Premiere

Original at Reality TV Magazine external link    Mon, Jan 7

By Mary_Montanari ShareThis                 Thirty talented and gutsy performers with both singing and dancing skills were invited by dancing judges Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli to return for Hollywood callbacks for a chance to land a slot as one of the final 14 on ABC’s new show “Dance War” which made...

Rate Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann debuts tonight

Original at reality blurred external link    Sun, Jan 6    3 related articles

By Andy Dehnart Dancing with the Stars spins off a new dance competition tonight with Dance War, which debuts at 8 pm ET. The series is a competition between two teams, led by Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli, and viewer votes for either team will ...

Rate Tonight on the Tube: BCS Championship, Good Eats & Medium

Original at TVaholic.com external link    Sun, Jan 6

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By Jason the TVaholic Tonight, ABC has the series premiere of Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann, which runs two hours, and NBC has American Gladiators premiering in its regular time period and the season four premiere of Medium. Over on cable, VH1 has the 13th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards.

Rate Winter Spring 2008 Reality TV Line Up

Original at Realitywanted.net external link    Thu, Jan 3

By Mark Share This MONDAY Dancing with the Stars ABC March 17 8pm Dance War– ABC 8pm Paradise Hotel 2 - Feb. 4 Mon at 9 on MyNetworkTV & 10pm on Fox Reality TUESDAY The Biggest Loser 5 - NBC 8pm Big Brother 9 - CBS, Feb. 12 9pm American Idol 7 – FOX 8pm Dancing with the Stars 5 [...]

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