Superstars of Dance
By Christopher Rocchio, 11/26/2008
NBC has announced Superstars of Dance, a new dance-themed reality competition series fromAmerican Idol creator Simon Fuller and former Idol executive producer Nigel Lythgoe, will premiere on Sunday, January 4 at 9PM ET/PT.
Following its Sunday night debut, Superstars of Dance will air two-hour episodes in its regular Mondays at 8PM ET/PT time period beginning January 5. Its finale is currently scheduled to air January 26 at 8PM ET/PT.
Superstars of Dance -- which NBC had ordered under the title Superstar Dancers of the Worldearlier this month -- will pit skilled dancers of various genres from different countries against each other.
The eight countries currently scheduled to participate are Ireland, India, USA, Argentina, China, Russia, South Africa and Australia. Each team will be comprised of two soloists, one duo and one larger group.
Lord of the Dance star and recent Dancing with the Stars guest judge Michael Flatley will host the series, which is being produced by 19 Entertainment with Fuller and Lythgoe serving as executive producers.
Lythgoe -- who also co-created Fox's So You Think You Can Dance with Fuller -- confirmed in August that he would be stepping down as Idol's executive producer after previously serving in that role for all of the Fox mega-hit's first seven seasons.
Instead, Lythgoe said he planned on devoting his time to both So You Think You Can Dance and also "a new venture with Simon Fuller" -- which has come to fruition in Superstars of Dance.
Superstars of Dance's premiere was announced as part of an overall January 2009 programming announcement in which NBC also announced premiere dates for two other reality series: The Biggest Loser: Couples and Howie Do It, a new Howie Mandel-hosted series.
The Biggest Loser: Couples' second edition -- the reality weight-loss competition's seventh overall edition -- will premiere on Tuesday, January 6 at 8PM ET/PT while Howie Do It, a new unscripted comedy series that Mandel will both star in and produce, will debut on Friday, January 9 at 8PM ET/PT.
Noticeably absent from NBC's January 2009 primetime programming schedule is The Celebrity Apprentice's second season, which was ordered last winter and filmed this fall. Instead, The Celebrity Apprentice's second-season premiere is expected to formally announced when NBC reveals its post-January midseason schedule.
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By John Bracchitta, 12/30/2008
Superstars of Dance:
NBC has announced the identities of the teams and judges that will be participating in Superstars of Dance, the new international dance competition series the network will premiere on Sunday, January 4 at 9PM ET/PT.
Superstars of Dance will pit eight teams of dancers from eight different countries against each other. The eight countries participating in the show are Argentina, Australia, China, Ireland, India, Russia, South Africa, and the United States. Each team -- which will be comprised of two soloists, one duo and one larger group -- will showcase dances that are "unique to their nation."
Argentina's team will consist of a sensual cabaret artiste soloist, a contemporary Tango dancer soloist, an Argentinian Tango duo and a group performing Gaucho style dance. They will be coached by Sandar, a Tony-nominated choreographer and principal dancer in the original cast of Forever Tango.
Australia's team will feature a tap dance soloist, a contemporary dancer soloist, a Latin ballroom duo and a group performing contemporary dance. They will be coached by Jason Gilkison, an international ballroom champion who currently oversees choreography and artistic direction for the FloorPlay version of Burn the Floor.
China's team will be comprised of a traditional Chinese ribbon dancer soloist, a double whip soloist, an acrobatic ballet duo and the Shaolin Monks Kung Fu group "Shaolin: Wheel of Life." They will be coached by Matthew Ahmet, who went to China and found his way by becoming a Shaolin Monk.
Ireland's team will feature a team of Irish step dancers assembled from different groups currently performing all over the globe who will perform together as a team for the first time on Superstars of Dance. They will be coached by Marie Duffy Pask, the dance director and associate choreographer for Michael Flately's Lord of the Dance and Feet of Flames.
India's team will consist of a Bharantanyam dancer soloist, a Kathak soloist, a Bollywood duo and a group dancing in the Bhangra style. They will be coached by Nakul Dev Mahajan, the founder and artistic director of the premiere Bollywood dance company in the United States.
Russia's team will consist of a ballet dancer soloist from the world famous Bolshoi Ballet, a contemporary dancer soloist from the world famous Bolshoi Ballet, a ballroom duo and a group performing Cossak style of dance. They will be coached by Stanislav Issaev, a longtime principle dancer with the Moscow Ballet Theater who has been named the People's artist of Russia, the highest artistic honor in the country.
South Africa's team will feature a hip/hop dance soloist, an Afrofusion dance soloist, World Champion jive-inspired dance duo and a group performing in the Gumboot style of dance. They will be coached by Tandi Bhengu, a lifelong dancer and singer who founded the S.A.G.A. (South African Girls Abroad) program and dance troupe.
The United States' team will consist of a popping dancer soloist, a tap dancer soloist, World Champion cabaret style ballroom duo and a group performing hip hop. They will be coached by Marguerite Derricks, an Emmy-Award winning choreographer all three of the Austin Powers films and is currently choreographing the new version of Fame.
The teams will be judged by an eight-person judging panel that will feature one judge from each team's country, however each judge will not be allowed to score the performances of the team from their home country.
The judges will be Maria Pogee, an Argentinian who attended the world-famous school of the Theater Colon and has directed, staged and choreographed dance productions throughout the world; Kelley Abbey, an Australian dancer, actor, singer and choreographer; Master Haiyang Wang, the natural successor to become the next Abbott of the Shaolin Temple and a senior Buddhist in China; Daire Nolan, a Irish dancer who has previously performed as the "Dark Lord" in Lord Of The Dance; Shirish Dayal, who has produced, directed and choreographed Indian stage shows for the past 15 years; Mikhail Smirnov, the director and founder of Barynya, a successful Russian folk dancing company; Harold Van Buuren, a Ballroom and Latin American championship dancer who has represented South Africa internationally on numerous occasions; and Tony Selznick, a longtime dancer who represents some of the biggest names in American dance.
Lord of the Dance star and recent Dancing with the Stars guest judge Michael Flatley will host the series along with former Miss USA Susie Castillo, who will serve as the show's co-host. FollowingSuperstars of Dance's two-hour debut Sunday, January 4 at 9PM ET/PT on NBC, the show will air two-hour episodes in its regular Mondays at 8PM ET/PT time period beginning January 5. The show's finale is scheduled to air January 26 at 8PM ET/PT.
NBC had ordered Superstars of Dance under the title Superstar Dancers of the World in November. It is being produced by Big Red 2 Entertainment, a new production entity formed by American Idol creator Simon Fuller and former Idol producer Nigel Lythgoe, who are executive producing the series.
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GDI Business Review:
by: Alastair HARRIS
If you have been on the internet for any length of time looking at business options you will eventually come across someone promoting GDI to you. So this article is to answer some of the basic questions about GDI. Is this Business opportunity a scam? Do they have a product or service that is worthwhile? What is the potential of this opportunity? I will seek to answer these questions as objectively as possible.
Scam!?
If you have come to this article you are probably already considering whether GDI is a serious business opportunity or a scam! To determine if GDI is a scam the first question one must ask is are they marketing a worthwhile product or service or are they just another MLM or pyramid designed to take your money without giving you anything other than promises of great rewards and riches? The answer yes they have a genuine product/ service. In this case web hosting.
The Service Outlined
They provide a web hosting service. It is true you can get free website hosting on the net, in fact this very article is an example of a free web host and you can get good results from them, but there are a number of things you sacrifice.
Firstly if you are using a free web host provider there is always some form of cost, normally they require you to carry free ads on your site. (web1000 is an exception but you can't even put banners on it and its editor is painful to use).
While having ads on your website at first this may not seem to be a problem, consider this, if you want this site to be your main business portal and hub, you may end up advertising your biggest competitor, not a smart move. You don't have ownership of your site. You may own the intellectual material but if the free web hoster changes their rules, goes out of business or just updates the way their system works there is not a thing you can do about it. Even with blogger you have to share your adsense revenue with them 50-50. That's why I recommend if you are serious about having an online business your main site be one that you own and that means paying for it. Also after I lost 48 blogs overnight because blogger felt they didn't all fit with their terms of service you learn - you get what you pay for.
In the case of GDI this means $10 a month. That's US Dollars, so if you are in Australia like me, thats not so good, if you operate in Euro's or pounds, thats great for you. For that you get a web site, 10 pages (plus a feedback and guest page 12 total), 10 e-mail addresses and a domain name, its also includes a domain/site builder, domain and e-mail forwarding, use your own web builder, parking service. However each page can have a huge amount of data. The 10 e-mail address means if you have 10 different businesses, affliliates programs or whatever you can devote an individual e-mail to each one and can with the forward even arrange to have them forwarded to a single box.
The other great advantage is the ability to choose a domain name. Most of the good .com names are long since gone. Further in the case of many of the other endings like .au, .us, .uk, etc many companies exist solely in buying up the best domain names to make a killing selling them to someone else at highly inflated prices. GDI with the .ws avoids this pitfall by ensuring the domain name is not sold as a separate entity, but only with the web hosting service. This stops domain name hording in its tracks. .ws is still new and now is the time to get the domain name you want. No additional $20 yearly fee for just the domain name registration.
The Business Opportunity
The fact is not everyone out there needs a web host. Let's examine why one has a website. Normally one either has a website for one of two reasons - BUSINESS or PERSONAL.
In the case of personal websites many people want their own personal e-mail addresses and have a website for a number of reasons, stay in touch with family with an open letter, express their beliefs or opinions on a world stage, to satisfied their own ego and sense of importance, create photo albums, join a community, etc. Some people will pay the $10 a month to have a website. As time progresses I think this will increase as more and more people become web aware and want to have their own address/ place on the web.
With the highly transitive nature of the human population with greater movement than ever before in the history of the world one of the best ways people will be able to stay in contact with friends will be via the net. Consider how many people from school do you know twenty years later. Have you moved city, state, country, if you have you probably have lost contact with them. If you wanted to track them down how would you? I know I would do it via the web. This will be increasingly easy as people have personal web pages.
In the case of a small first time business wanting their own website with six pages GDI is not a bad option as it also gives them a source of secondary income.
It has the potential to be a good source of income as each person you bring in gets you $1 a month. Not a huge amount really, you would need 10 people just to pay for you hosting fee, but the winner here its that you get a $1 for each person they introduce down to five levels, the power to leverage the work of those below you is what appeals here. That can result in some good returns. You won't become a millionaire over night, but you can have a great income stream.
Brian's Income Proof...
.You might be thinking, I'm too late and missed the GDI wave. No I don't think so, not at this time this article is written. GDI members now are in the tens of thousands, not until its reaches 100's of millions will the wave subside. I don't think new customers will ever complete dry up either, because each year more and more tech. savey students finish school, and they brought up to believe they each need their own modern gadgets, including mobile phones, e-mailing, and even their own personal website.
For kids who are spending $50 plus a month on mobile phones alone, $10 a month for their own website is nothing. I'm waiting for the day you no longer send in a resume into a prospective employer but just give them your web address and they can look up your life themselves.
There are numerous ways to advertise GDI online. I myself am no great saleman. I hate cold calling, I hate door knocking, I hate feeling like I am invading someone personal space or coming across as pushy. That's why I love internet advertising. The buyer is in total control, no pushie saleman, don't like the sales pitch go to another site. There are several program set up to advertise GDI for you, programs like turbo GDI and Hits2U, both are cost effective.
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Web Prosperity Pre-Launch Opportunity
What is Web Prosperity? It's a brand new company that is just launching at the beginning of 2009. Started by experienced and highly successful entrepreneur David D'arcangelo, Web Prosperity has a very ambitious and unique goal --to make financial prosperity through internet marketing achievable for average people who don't have a large advertising budget, list of subscribers or connections in the industry.
Web Prosperity is not going to be simply another "matrix" or MLM program, though it is incorporating these elements into its pay plan. More importantly, it is going to offer a wide array of useful products to help educate people and give them the tools to succeed in their online businesses. Some of the tools that will be included are autoresponders, audio creation software and webinar functions.
Anyone who has been around internet marketing for any length of time is used to hyped-up launches and "pre-launches." It would be easy to dismiss Web Prosperity as yet another program that starts off with a bang and gradually fades into the background as newer launches steal the spotlight. But there are good reasons to believe that Web Prosperity is something different --a company that has been planned for a long time by people who really know what they are doing.
David D'arcangelo is the author of several books, including Wealth Starts At Home. His goal in starting Web Prosperity is to create a vehicle whereby ordinary people can learn to succeed with their own home based business. This company is likely to fill a vacuum in the internet marketing industry, where it is actually quite difficult for most people to get off the ground. Web Prosperity is designed to give people the tools, information and support needed --without having to make a large financial investment-- for them to achieve success in a relatively short time.
It is free to join Web Prosperity, so it is possible to sign up and look it over before you decide if you want to get seriously involved. As of now, positions are filling up fast. Since the launch of Web Prosperity is prospone to January 13, 2009, it is definitely a ground floor opportunity for people who want to start their own online business.
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