Dancing with the Stars (American TV series) season 17
Season seventeen of Dancing with the Stars premiered on September 16, 2013, on the ABC network.[1]
Dancing with the Stars
12
September 16 –
November 26, 2013
On November 26, actress Amber Riley and Derek Hough were crowned the champions, while actor Corbin Bleu and Karina Smirnoff finished in second place, and Jack Osbourne and Cheryl Burke finished in third.
This is the first season since season one to not have a Tuesday results show.[2] The sky box where host Brooke Burke Charvet interviewed dancers after their performances was also eliminated. Instead, the couples were accommodated in a new seating area near the judges' table, which had also been shifted to the opposite side of the ballroom. A make-up room and rehearsal room were added where Charvet could chat with the couples before and after their performances.[3]
This season also introduced a new format of voting. Each week, the judges would give each couple a score. Since there was no results show, those scores would be added to the public votes from the previous week, and the couple with the lowest combined score from judges and viewer votes would be eliminated from the competition at the end of that week's episode.[4]
Cast[edit]
Couples[edit]
This season featured twelve celebrity contestants. The cast and their professional partners were announced on September 4, 2013, on Good Morning America.[5][6][7] Tyne Stecklein, Emma Slater, and Sasha Farber joined the cast of professional dancers, while Gleb Savchenko and Lindsay Arnold joined Henry Byalikov and Witney Carson in the dance troupe.
The couples performed the following each week: