Dancing with the Stars: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Dancing with the Stars pairs celebrities with professional ballroom dancers who each week compete against each other in a dance-off to impress a panel of judges and ultimately the viewing public in order to survive potential elimination. Through a telephone and SMS voting, viewers vote for the duo they think should remain in the competition. Judges' scores are combined with the viewer votes when determining which duo is eliminated.

Series details

• Title: Dancing with the Stars
• Format: Reality
• Language: English
• Genres: Family
• Premiere date: 2004-10-05
• Status in TVmaze: Running
• Network listed by TVmaze: Seven Network
• Network country: Australia
• Typical episode runtime: 65 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 5.5/10
• TVMaze ID: 12967
• IMDb ID: tt0434676
• TVDB ID: 153231

Cast and credited roles

• Sonia Kruger — Host
• Dr. Chris Brown — Host
• Craig Revel Horwood — Judge
• Sharna Burgess — Judge
• Mark Wilson — Judge
• Helen Richey — Judge

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2004-10-05; final listed air date 2004-11-23; episode order: 8.
• Season 2: premiered 2005-02-08; final listed air date 2005-04-26; episode order: 10.
• Season 3: premiered 2005-09-06; final listed air date 2005-11-08; episode order: 10.
• Season 4: premiered 2006-02-21; final listed air date 2006-05-09; episode order: 10.
• Season 5: premiered 2006-09-26; final listed air date 2006-11-28; episode order: 10.
• Season 6: premiered 2007-02-20; final listed air date 2007-05-01; episode order: 10.
• Season 7: premiered 2007-09-25; final listed air date 2007-11-27; episode order: 10.
• Season 8: premiered 2008-09-07; final listed air date 2008-11-09; episode order: 10.
• Season 9: premiered 2009-07-05; final listed air date 2009-09-06; episode order: 10.
• Season 10: premiered 2010-06-27; final listed air date 2010-08-29; episode order: 10.
• Season 11: premiered 2011-05-08; final listed air date 2011-07-10; episode order: 10.
• Season 12: premiered 2012-04-15; final listed air date 2012-06-17; episode order: 10.
• Season 13: premiered 2013-10-01; final listed air date 2013-11-26; episode order: 11.
• Season 14: premiered 2014-09-30; final listed air date 2014-11-25; episode order: 10.
• Season 15: premiered 2015-07-19; final listed air date 2015-09-07; episode order: 9.
• Season 16: premiered 2019-02-18; final listed air date 2019-04-22; episode order: 10.
• Season 17: premiered 2020-02-09; final listed air date 2020-04-05; episode order: 9.
• Season 18: premiered 2021-04-11; final listed air date 2021-04-25; episode order: 7.
• Season 19: premiered 2022-02-20; final listed air date 2022-04-03; episode order: 7.
• Season 20: premiered 2023-06-18; final listed air date 2023-07-23.
• Season 21: premiered 2024-07-07; final listed air date 2024-08-12; episode order: 7.
• Season 22: premiered 2025-06-15; final listed air date 2025-08-04.

Source and licence

Adapted from Dancing with the Stars on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.