Dancing with the Stars moving back to ABC – Deadline

Do we now have Bob Iger to thank for this? Dana Walden? Whoever made the determination, the fringe followers thanks: Dancing with the Stars is moving back to ABC, Deadline has discovered.

Last yr, Disney made the determination to transfer their fashionable (however loss chief) present to its digital platform. The present acquired a two-year pickup at the similar time. DWTS turned the first stay collection to debut on the service and the first stay streaming actuality present in the U.S., marking one other milestone for direct-to-consumer platforms.

While DWTS hasn’t been a moneymaker for years, it was an enormous motive for viewers to keep tuned to a broadcast community. Finding a big-tent actuality present like DWTS, Survivor and The Voice has lengthy been the holy grail to broadcasters, so its departure had an influence on ABC and its associates.

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