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What the Move to Disney+ Means for Dancing with the Stars
Season 31 of Dancing With the Stars is bigger and amended than ever.
The newest play of the deed world contention is premiering Sept. 19—but not connected its longtime ABC home. Instead, the amusement volition aerial connected Disney+ arsenic the first-ever unrecorded world amusement connected the streamer, a determination that hosts Tyra Banks and Alfonso Ribeiro think is simply a bully one.
Why? Well, the streaming format means nary commercials—which means much dancers.
"No commercials...gave america the quality to person much contestants due to the fact that of that clip that we present have," Ribeiro explained exclusively to E! News. "We don't person to alert done the amusement arsenic rapidly arsenic we utilized to. We tin fto this happening unrecorded and enactment a small spot longer."
This year, determination are a grounds 16 contestants competing for the Mirrorball Trophy, including Real Housewife Teresa Giudice and Jersey Shore star Vinny Guadagnino. But due to the fact that of that other time, Ribeiro added that the amusement volition get to dive into these contestants' stories adjacent deeper.
"One of the things that I deliberation is truthful important that radical don't admit connected this amusement is it's really a amusement astir a journey," the big noted. "It's a story, and we're telling 16 idiosyncratic stories weekly. And our extremity is to marque definite that we get to archer their story. What are they going through? What is that week like?"
Behind the scenes, the determination to Disney+ takes the unit disconnected the hosts arsenic well. Banks explained that she wears an earpiece during filming, and producers archer her erstwhile to chopped the judges disconnected from talking and spell to a commercialized break.
And even though determination won't beryllium commercials anymore, Banks said enforcement producers volition still advise her to determination on the show.
"They were like, 'Tyra, we're inactive gonna accidental that. We're inactive gonna marque you archer the judges to necktie it up, but they're gonna person much time,'" she said. "It hurts my psyche to person to chopped the judges disconnected due to the fact that of this time, but by not having the commercials, we're gonna beryllium capable to spot a spot much enactment and air."
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Watch each 16 contestants duke it retired when Dancing With the Stars premieres Sept. 19 connected Disney+.
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