So You Think You Can Dance News, Recaps, Spoilers, Results, Gossip

Ratings: So You Think You Can Dance Up From Last Week, Down From Last Year

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The two hour So You Think You Can Dance finale scored a 2.1 rating with adults 18-49 that’s up 24% from last week’s one hour telecast and its best numbers since June 16, but down 13% from last year’s finale that scored aa 2.4 adults 18-49 rating on August 12, 2011.

So You Think You Can Dance 8 – The Finale – Videos & Recap

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AND THE WINNER IS Melanie Moore:

4th Place Dancer: Tadd Gadduang
3rd Place Dancer: Marko Gemar
2nd Place Dancer: Sasha Mallory

I would have been OK with any of the Top 4 taking the crown tonight, so a heartfelt congratulations to Melanie Moore for her win, and to the rest of the finalists for making this season one of the best. Well, one of the best up until Finale week. Wednesday night found an exhausted group of dancers tackling too many dances. It didn’t help that some of those routines were real stink bombs, and it all added up to an underwhelming end to a fine season. At least tonight we were reminded, by reprises of some of the best dances of the competition, why Season 8 was so awesome.

Ratings: So You Think You Can Dance Up From Last Week

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Last night’s So You Think You Can Dance averaged 5.67 viewers. SYTYCD’s 6% gain over last week would be expected–last night was the final performance show of the season. The finale tonight should see some gains as well.

More ratings news after the jump.

So You Think You Can Dance 8 – The Final Four!

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Ugh Nigel. What’s with the choreography tonight? You complained halfway through tonight’s show that the performances were disappointing, but the problem was not your fine dancers, who did their best with what was handed to

Ratings: So You Think You Can Dance Semi-Final Down From Last Week

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Ratings are in from TVByTheNumbers CBS won the night with both adults 18-49 and total viewers, paced by a Big Brother that was up a tenth to a 2.7 adults 18-49 rating. ABC was second

So You Think You Can Dance 8 – Top 6 Results

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I don’t know if it’s a last minute decision of Lord Nigel Lythgoe, but he tweeted today that tonight’s results will be decided by AMERICA. The top vote getters will not be revealed…

Also, American Idol’s Pia Toscano taped a performance of her single “This Time” this morning with Michael Orland before she took off to join the rest of the Top 11 in Milwaukee tonight for Idols Live. Stay tuned for Pia, not-live, later in the show…

In the meantime, stay right here while I live blog the results!

Ratings: So You Think You Can Dance & America’s Got Talent Both Fall

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Last night’s ratings via TVByTheNumbers:

So You Think You Can Dance fell 14% but Fox still eked out a win with adults 18-49. America’s Got Talent was also down 14% from last week to a summer low 2.4 adults 18-49 rating, though NBC was still tops for the night with total viewers. CBS’s Big Brother was up a tenth from last Wednesday to a 2.5 adults 18-49 rating and was the highest-rated broadcast program of the night with adults 18-49.

So You Think You Can Dance 8 – Top 6 – Videos and Live Blog

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Live blogging tonight’s So You Think You Can Dance right here! The Top 6 takes the stage with 2 routines and a solo. Tomorrow night, Pia Toscano performs her single, “This Time” Tonight’s guest judges

Nigel Lythgoe Wants to Change American Idol Voting System

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Nigel Lythgoe met with advertisers in New York City today, and Zap2it.com caught up with him to discuss American Idol and the current season of So You Think You Think You Can Dance which has its Season finale Thursday August 11.

Nigel wants to change the Idol voting system to “one device, one vote”–whatever that means. This isn’t the first time Nigel has mentioned changing the voting. He’s also expressed an interest in allowing the judges more control over who gets sent home.

Ratings: Not Much of a Gaga Bump for SYTYCD

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So You Think You Can Dance did not receive much of a bump from Gaga this week. Check out last night’s ratings after the jump.

ETA: FOX_Research tweets: “Last night’s #GLEE encore was its most watched in seven weeks (3.5m viewers)”