The Strictly Pros make the tune complete! - Launch Show | BBC Strictly 2020 

They also look like they are more relaxed and just having fun instead of that all preformed vibe. Its nice. Its like they are dancing for themselves and not the audience.

All of the group dances will have no studio audience, but the live shows and Sunday night shows will have, just severely reduced in numbers. I think they used to cram in 600 people into George Lucas Stage 2, now they barely have less than 100 in there.

I hear you but I for one quite like the audience atmosphere because you really get to see how much people enjoy it!

That's very true, but without the audience, the atmosphere just feels like a rehearsal without 100% heart put into it.

@@johnking5174 good! No more WOO WOO WOO WOO WOO.

This is why British tv shows are one if the best!

@@getmeto10ksubscriberswithj53 many British shows are basically copies of American shows soooo

@@holladen6772 such as?

@@3sistersrwe Strictly is a copy of DWTS and yes I know Bruno, he is a judge on the American version, Real housewives of Cheshire is a copy of Real housewives in the us, they also copied musicals that are from the US.

@@holladen6772 Strictly started out as just "Come Dancing" (with just professional dancers) in 1949. it took a break in 1998 due to cost cutting measures by the BBC. It restarted in 2004 as Strictly. In fact, DWTS (which started in 2005) is licensed by BBC worldwide to 60 countries.

Agreed she's so underated

Agree! Shame she doesn't have a partner this year

Nadya my fav.

I do not see any Oti's entrance in this dance. where is it?

Yeah, they're coming back!

@@henrymanley4116 Gimme the jazz, baby! 😉

I agree

I agree too!

Especially with that gorgeous red hair.

Oh wow this is pinned

*Strictley

@@sorchagalvin5976 there's no e in Strictly..

There's a reason they're called professionals. Obviously, if you're not a pro, you wouldn't be able to dance as well as them. It's not your fault.

Agreed I think it looks better natural

@@nikkigee6477 Interesting new hair colours that some of the other pros have though

I read that as protesters and thought “why would anyone hate this?”

I'm a few months late but yes, those are musicians. I'm glad you've decided to join us over here👍

The first guy sat by the drums with the ginger hair was Neil Jones, who is one of the pro dancers. The people in black and white who take over on drums and the double bass are ‘proper’ musicians from the Strictly orchestra (usually credited as Dave Arch and his wonderful wonderful orchestra, so are nicknamed ‘the wunnerfalls’ or the WWO - Dave Arch is the band leader and conductor and they really are great as everything is played live from classic music to hip hop to gangnam-style and they do it all with the same group of musicians). There are also usually 4 singers that perform all the numbers with the WWO, two of whom are featured here: Tommy at the start and then I don’t recognise the lass in her fabulous twenties attire, but it’s lovely to see them out front and centre, then the last singer is Anton, who is a pro dancer that has been with Strictly since the first season and actually on this season (2020) was moved to be a judge as Bruno was stuck in America. Anton has since stayed as a judge and it’s preferable that way. This routine was shown in full in the first show of the series but was also used for the teasers and trailers before that. It worked really well. You can see that each pro dancer has a clear moment, even though Nadiya is the lead. The 2020 season of Strictly had huge viewing figures: we were in and out of lock down here and it was grim. So many people lost in the winter Covid wave 20/21. Strictly gave a much needed boost of cheerfulness on our screens and so pleased that they managed to produce a series in the middle of Covid, obeying all the protocols with the dancers isolating themselves for weeks to make it happen. Strictly is continuing to provide sparkly joy in dark times and I very much appreciate it, although I do really miss Oti.

i think you can get a VPN or something or download the bbc iplayer app and watch it :)

Joshua Keefe and Kai Widdrington

Jumpin' Jack

Joshua Keefe

@@_dianaf__ thanks. Looked up the name and found that he was the pro partner of courtney act in the Aus version of dancing with the stars.

The song is dance monkey but a different version of it

Well the first bit

@@erinmonroe951 Jumpin Jack!

Joshua Keefe and Kai Widdrington

@@RVandergeld thank you

@@Hannah-fc9jc no little longer with the Marcel wavy hair

I found it quite sad and flat, I know they are great for doing this but its such a shame, whats happening now

They should have left it for this year. Its horrible.

Mark if it’s that horrible then no one is forcing you to watch

@@grey9941 get lost then

@@vallee3140 What do you think is different?

You’re thinking of ‘Hey, Pachuco!’ Love the Mask!!

What do u mean ?

@@harryfreegard6250 He always gets old ladies and he has no chance most of the time! 🙄

@@simpsundae Not always. He has had some good partners over the years: he finished third with Lesley Garrett, Laila Rouass was really good and got him to week 12, Katie Derham got him in the final in their series, and got to the final last year with Emma Barton. I

@@MsGrockle I know that but most of the time, probably because he's getting old now too, he gets all of the old people and can't show off what he can do.

@@simpsundae He carved out his own niche for most of Strictly, as the one who could keep the 'no-hoper' women in for a fair number of weeks, on comedy value alone. Made a rod for his own back really.

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