Strictly Come Dancing is back with a bang, but can you spot the difference? Series 23 unveils a game-changing twist in the dance-off that could shake up the competition!
This year, the power shifts as the casting vote rotates among the judges. Discover how this new rule will impact eliminations and create nail-biting moments on the dance floor.
Find out how the bottom two couples are determined, the role of judges' scores and public votes, and why the casting vote change is the only major update this season. Get ready for more drama, dazzling performances, and unpredictable results!
00:00Strictly Come Dancing has made one of its biggest ever changes to the dreaded dance-off.
00:07But, what is different for 2025?
00:09I'm a TV and tech writer, Matt Monix, and this is all you need to know.
00:13Strictly Come Dancing is waltzing onto our screens every Saturday night to make it far more fabulous this autumn.
00:22The show will be continuing over the coming weeks through to December, when the final tradition takes place.
00:28And, you will have maybe noticed a change to how the dance-off works.
00:35Ever so slightly, it's nothing too big that I haven't done anything really wild, but the casting vote, which used to go exclusively to the head judge, goes instead to all of them.
00:47So, it's been rotated round, so a different judge on the panel will have the casting vote each week.
00:52It came into play for the first time in week four, with the third elimination, as the previous ones have been unanimous decisions, so casting vote wasn't required.
01:04But, it's probably going to feature more over the coming weeks, especially as there's only four judges.
01:09So, it's quite easy to get tied up, you know, just needs two votes either way for one, either of the bottom two, for it to end up needing the casting vote.
01:18So, yeah, it's going to be a big change over the course of Series 23, or for Strictly Come Dancing.
01:25It will rotate around the panel every week, so every four weeks they will get the chance to have the casting vote.
01:32And, yeah, it's, everything else is the same, really.
01:38You know, the bottom two, it's based on a combination of judges' scores and also the public votes.
01:44So, the scores from the judges on Saturday night, you get the leaderboard for the week, and then the public votes, and those are tottened up, combined together,
01:52and they're the two who fall to the bottom of that combined table, won't face the dance-off.
01:59And, yeah, the audio-reel change is the casting vote change, and that's all you need to know for Series 23.
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