Season 16

As you've probably heard by now, Dancing With the Stars is facing a huge change come fall: There will no longer be a results show. Is this change ill-advised, or a great call?

We can certainly see why ABC took this tactic. Dancing With the Stars has been dropping in the ratings, and fast; to change nothing would be willfully stupid. For a while, there were rumors that the show was going to be......

Given how predictable Dancing With the Stars Season 16 has been, no one was surprised that bottom scoring Ingo Rademacher went home on the Semifinals Results show (May 14, 2013) — not even Ingo himself! 

Ingo admitted to E! that he "expected" Tuesday's results show to be the end of the line for him.

"My talent was just a little bit below [the other contestants]," he explained. "I'm...

What’s better: A season, like Dancing With the Stars All-Stars, filled with shocking eliminations or one like Season 16, which has been steady as the rain in terms of following the scores?

You could argue that Season 15 was more exciting, because every Tuesday night we held our breath to see who would go home. It was rarely based on scores and just seemed tied to fan bases — or...

Whether you, personally, have loved Dancing With the Stars Season 16 or have found yourself bored by the predictable season, there's no question that the magic has worn off for America. While the show is still doing well enough relative to the bleak landscape of network TV numbers, it keeps hitting series low ratings, and ABC has cut the Tuesday Results Show going forward. What went wrong?

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