VIP Dance is the first season of the reality show Strictly Come Dancing

Strictly Come Dancing

Strictly Come Dancing is a British television show, featuring celebrities with professional dance partners competing in Ballroom and Latin dances. The title of the show suggests a continuation of the long-running series Come Dancing, with an allusion to the film Strictly Ballroom...

 in Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

. It launched on 8 September 2009 on Nova Television. The show is a co-production between Nova Television and Old School Productions.

VIP Dance airs on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays (eliminations) at 20:00. It has been announced that the season finale will be on 30 November.

Format

The show is aired under the license of Endemol

Endemol

Endemol is an international television production and distribution company based in the Netherlands, with subsidiaries and joint ventures in 23 countries, including the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Mexico, Spain, Italy, Germany, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Dominican Republic, Poland,...

. It has been broadcasted in a number of other countries, including Australia

Australia

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, Brazil

Brazil

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, Chile

Chile

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, France

France

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, Portugal

Portugal

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, South Africa

South Africa

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, Spain

Spain

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, and Turkey

Turkey

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.

Similarities with Dancing Stars

Its first season was produced by Old School Productions in 2008, when it beat Nova Television's Big Brother 4

Big Brother 4 (Bulgaria)

Big Brother 4 was the fourth season of the reality show Big Brother in Bulgaria. It was aired on Nova Television and Nova+. The show launched on 22 September 2008, 20:00 h and continued for 3 months , ending on 14 December 2008, lasting for 84 Days - the shortest regular Big Brother season so far...

 in ratings. Apart from the producers, Dancing Stars 1s jury members Neshka Robeva

Neshka Robeva

Neshka Robeva is a Bulgarian former Rhythmic Gymnast and coach.Born in Rousse, Robeva graduated from the Bulgarian State Choreography School in "Bulgarian Dances" in 1966 and since then had been a member of the Bulgarian national rhythmic gymnastics squad until 1973. She took part in four World...

 and Galena Velikova are also part of VIP Dance.

Many of the participants in bTV's show are now competing in VIP Dance:

• • Orlin Pavlov (now a jury member)
  • Yana Akimova (Orlin and Yana were the winners of Dancing Stars 1)
  • Rangel Spirov
  • Svetlin Dimitrov
  • Atanas Mesechkov
  • Elena Dobrikova
  • Petya Dimitrova

VIP Dance will be competing with bTV's Dancing Stars 2, which launches on 1 October 2009 and will be produced by Slavi Trifonov.

Presenters

The main presenters of VIP Dance are Ivan and Andrey. They became popular in bTV, where they hosted the talk show Sblusuk and the three seasons of Music Idol

Music Idol

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 (they were also producers of the second and the third ones).

Judges

There are four members of the jury - Neshka Robeva

Neshka Robeva

Neshka Robeva is a Bulgarian former Rhythmic Gymnast and coach.Born in Rousse, Robeva graduated from the Bulgarian State Choreography School in "Bulgarian Dances" in 1966 and since then had been a member of the Bulgarian national rhythmic gymnastics squad until 1973. She took part in four World...

, Galena Velikova, Orlin Pavlov and Ivailo Manolov. Orlin was a participant in Dancing Stars 1.

External links

• The official website of VIP Dance