So You Think You Can Dance

By Andy Dehnart Instead, Nigel Lythgoe explained last night that the show's producers and Fox "have agreed that Billy Bell can join the competition at the top 100 in Vegas next season, and they've also agreed that Brandon can re-apply for this show. I think that's very fair."

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By Andy Dehnart A week after quitting So You Think You Can Dance and then remaining silent, Emmy-winning choreographer Mia Michaels has finally explained why she left the show. The short answer: She has better things to do, including working on other countries' versions of the show.

By Andy Dehnart Worse, since Brandon was part of the top 20, it means he's ineligible to return to the show in the future. However, Nigel said "I'm going to ask [Fox] if we can change the rules under the circumstances to let you come back into the competition next season."

By Andy Dehnart So You Think You Can Dance 6 has already lost one of its competitors: Billy Bell, the 19-year-old contemporary dancer, has dropped out due to an unspecified illness. He's being replaced by hip-hop dancer Brandon Dumlao, who previously didn't make the top 20 in season five.

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By Andy Dehnart Monday, Oct. 26 A special episode of So You Think You Can Dance [Fox, 8 p.m.] will consist of performances from each of the top 20, and may feature Paula Abdul for some unknown reason. Cake Boss returns [TLC, 10 p.m.] for a second season, while Real Chance of Love ends its second season [VH1, 9 p.m.].

By Andy Dehnart By the way, on what will probably be her last episode, Mia Michaels (who recently quit the show) was telling a contestant he made it through to the top 20, and said, "recently, I haven't had a lot of things go my way, and it's really cool to know that it is going my way today, because you know what...

By Andy Dehnart So You Think You Can Dance [Fox, 8 p.m.] gets its top 20, finally. Now it's time for the really amazing dancing to begin. » comment on, share, or e.mail this story » read the latest news about past forward or find more reality TV news and gossip » follow reality blurred on Twitter and on Facebook.

By Andy Dehnart Mia Michaels' all-caps Twitter postings announcing her resignation from So You Think You Can Dance were not the work of a hacker nor a joke: She is leaving the show, but she could come back. FOX confirms Emmy-winning choreographer Mia Michaels has left show [Zap2it]

By Andy Dehnart Emmy-winning So You Think You Can Dance choreographer Mia Michaels posted three messages to Twitter last night that say she's leaving the show. » read the latest news about So You Think You Can Dance or find more reality TV news and gossip » follow reality blurred on Twitter and on Facebook.

By Andy Dehnart Although it still remains popular, viewers are fleeing from Dancing with the Stars, giving the show its worst ratings since it debuted. » read the latest news about Dancing with the Stars 9 or find more reality TV news and gossip » follow reality blurred on Twitter and on Facebook.

By Andy Dehnart Hell's Kitchen ends its latest season [Fox, 8 p.m.] with a two-hour finale that preempts So You Think You Can Dance. Unacceptable! Barry Levinson's documentary about the Baltimore Colts marching band that kept playing even after their team moved, The Band That Wouldn't Die, debuts as part...

By Andy Dehnart But it certainly doesn't look that way (here's one screen shot), and even Nigel Lythgoe initially thought it was nudity. » read the latest news about So You Think You Can Dance or find more reality TV news and gossip » follow reality blurred on Twitter and on Facebook.

By Andy Dehnart I don't quite get the show; some of the acts are entertaining, but its progression is tedious, and feels like watching the (old) semi-final rounds of American Idol for three months. But perhaps between Idol and So You Think You Can Dance, I've just maxed out my quotient for similarly struct...

By Andy Dehnart That third judge is Adam Shankman, a choreographer on the show who's been added as the show's permanent third judge. » read the latest news about So You Think You Can Dance or find more reality TV news and gossip » follow reality blurred on Twitter and on Facebook.

By Andy Dehnart A contestant on Poland's version of So You Think You Can Dance got so excited that the judges put her through to the next round that she ran directly off the front of the stage. (It's not, as the video clip suggests, Russia's version of Idol; see the correction below.)

By Andy Dehnart NBC has ordered a new competition series from American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance producers Nigel Lythgoe and Simon Fuller. Superstar Dancers of the World will air early next year and "pit the masters of various dance genres from eight countries against each other," according to t...

By Andy Dehnart Nigel Lythgoe, a judge on and executive producer of So You Think You Can Dance, says he and his shows have no problem with gay contestants, but he does have a problem with people who don't fit into their proper gender roles. Nigel Lythgoe says he doesn't have a problem with gay men, just effemi...