Rock and disco is not a good pairing — in fact, I think this show probably needs to just concentrate on one genre at a time. There’s not the technicality of scoring that leads Dancing With The Stars to do this kind of thing, so why they need to double up with this (or next [...]

As I suspected, keeping up with It Takes Two has proved something of a challenge, and I haven’t had a chance to watch episodes 2 and 3 at all. I did catch Week 4, but I’m only just going to get to post my remarks before Week 5 comes on air.

I’m not too upset with [...]

Last year, I tracked the fortunes of the contestants on Seven’s It Takes Two to an obsessively scary degree (click here for the damning archival evidence, including proof that I chucked a sulk in the last week because Rachael Beck got voted out and subsequently ignored the final). I’m going to be travelling throughout Series [...]

Those judges should be shot. You’d have to have tin ears to presume that Sarah & Guy’s tune-free performance of ‘I Want You Back’ was better than Mark & Rachel’s rendition of ‘Can’t Take My Eyes Off You’ — but that’s what the scores (33 versus 31) suggested. And while it’s perfectly OK to acknowledge [...]

Apparently, Grant Denyer’s desire to be a major TV host has not yet overpowered his desire to race V8 supercars. Sure, Larry Emdur’s head might look like a wine cask, but he slipped effortlessly into the role. Teresa slipped effortlessly into her usual hopelessness.

The bigger shock of the night, however, was Kate & Troy heading [...]

If you leave out the exiting Champs & Wendy, there was really nothing to differentiate the scores this week, with a none-too-diverse range of 33 to 35. While this adds to the unpredictability and makes the public vote especially critical, it suggests that the judges are getting complacent, lazy or (in the case of Amanda) [...]

While standards should be higher at this stage of the competition, the logic of Amanda Pellman’s scores this week eludes me utterly. While Kate & Troy did a fine job of AC/DC, I didn’t see it as a 10-ranked performance. Even more confusing was giving Sarah’s enthusiastic, but ultimately off-pitch, rendition of ‘Your Song’, a [...]

Kate Ritchie must be packing shit. While the Home & Away teenybopper vote will probably ensure her survival, her and Troy’s bottom-ranked score makes them a definite eviction contender next week, a scenario that hasn’t looked at all likely so far. Richard & Wendy will also probably be there, though for them it’s slightly more [...]

Well, we’ve gotten rid of Katie & David and about time too. I’d have been quite pleased to see them go before Judy & Glenn, as it had become quite clear that, whatever other charms she possesses, Ms Fischer is simply not a singer, with her effective range probably not topping three notes.

Erika & David [...]

It was no great shock to see Judy & Glenn get the boot last night, but it was a big shock that the couple standing beside them was Richard & Wendy, rather than — as everyone expected — Katie & Dave. While I don’t think Richard & Wendy were the best performers this week, I [...]