In 2004, a re-launched celebrity version entitled Strictly Come Dancing, hosted by Bruce Forsyth and Tess Daly, debuted on BBC One, and became a popular hit on Saturday evenings.

Celebrity dancing show Strictly Come Dancing ( 2004 – present ) was also a popular success on Saturday nights, although another Saturday night entertainment series, Fame Academy, faced accusations of being too derivative of the output of commercial rivals, and during Heggessey's era the channel frequently came under attack for being too populist and not providing enough serious programming.

Since then she has written a host of highly-acclaimed and popular television drama serials, including Band of Gold ( 1995 ), Playing the Field ( 1998 ) for BBC One, Fat Friends ( 2000 ), Between the Sheets ( 2003 ) and Strictly Confidential ( 2006 ) for ITV.

In February 2009, the popular ABC series Dancing with the Stars announced that the Argentine tango would be added to the list of dances for its eighth season, following the initiative by its British parent show Strictly Come Dancing the previous year.

In 2007 she participated in the fifth series of the popular BBC dance competition, Strictly Come Dancing.

It was, in many ways, similar to the BBC's popular Strictly Come Dancing, a celebrity based dance contest also broadcast on Saturday evenings.

Strictly speaking, these were pirated recordings, but because the work required to clear all the copyrights and publishing of every track for an official release was considered to be prohibitively expensive, the bootlegs became popular.

In June 2009, it was announced that Gayle would be one of several celebrities competing in Dancing on Wheels, BBC's spin-off show to the popular reality television competition Strictly Come Dancing.

The station also hosts several popular music festivals each year including the Humbug Hoedown in December, and is the radio volunteer for the free music festival each October in Golden Gate Park called Hardly Strictly Bluegrass.

As the state has Germany's longest coastline and some of its largest islands, it is a popular place for sailing, e. g. the Hanse Sail event, and windsurfing.

Although fore-and-aft rigs have become more popular on modern yachts, square sails continued to power full-rigged ships through the Age of Sail and to the present day.

Sail boats and motor boats are a popular way to get around the lake.

Seafaring has long been the most popular trade, but farming and eventually tourism became the most important economic factors after the end of the Age of Sail.

In the Age of Sail Dutch and West Frisian forms became popular.

The square rig is the aerodynamically most efficient running rig ( i. e. sailing tailwind ), and stayed popular on ocean-going sailing ships until the end of the Age of Sail.

Widow's walks are in fact a standard decorative feature of Italianate architecture, which was very popular during the height of the Age of Sail in many North American coastal communities.

There are numerous popular tour bus companies and boat tours running throughout the year.

A big popular form of transportation is by boat!

While sailing groups organize the most active and popular competitive yachting, other boating events are also held world-wide: speed motor boat racing ; competitive canoeing, kayaking, and rowing ; and navigational contests ( generally a test of celestial and landmark-based navigation skills where GPS and other electronic navigation equipment is disallowed ) are among the events which are organized around the world.

It includes notable tunnels south of Crick 1528 yd ( 1397 m ) and north of Husbands Bosworth 1166 yd ( 1066 m ) The village of Crick is home to a popular annual boat show.

By the end of the 18th century, the town had become a popular centre for visitors undertaking the " Wye Tour ", an excursion by boat through the scenic Wye Valley taking in the picturesque sights of Ross-on-Wye, Goodrich, Tintern, Chepstow and elsewhere.

Trolling ( towing a fairy or bait behind a moving boat ) is a popular technique.

File: A lone boat on Lake Bruin IMG 1250. JPG | Boating on popular Lake Bruin in Tensas Parish near St. Joseph

A popular tourist destination, the cove offers several lodges and cabins and the only way to get around the cove is by boat.

Contrary to popular belief, the town does not sit on a barrier island but on a narrow peninsula which resembles a barrier island ( unless one considers a narrow man-made boat canal well inland that connects White Creek to Little Assawoman Bay ).

Its location on the Shrewsbury River makes Little Silver a popular destination for boaters and water sports enthusiasts, with a public boat ramp at the Dominick F. Santelle Park off Riverview Avenue.

The Colonial Belle is a popular tour boat that offers canal cruises from Packett's Wharf-on the south bank of the Erie in downtown Fairport.

Trolley parks like Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, or Reading's Carsonia Park were initially popular natural leisure spots before local streetcar companies purchased the sites, expanding them from picnic groves to include regular entertainments, mechanical amusements, dance halls, sports fields, boat rides, restaurants and other resort facilities.

In 1954, the state acquired of land around the lighthouse and made it into a state park, including a popular boat ramp.

Though boating and fishing are popular in the area, there is only one boat launch with two seasonal docks and no marina in the city.

Fajardo is popular among tourists, especially local tourists, because of its seafood, hotels, closeness to the small islands of Palomino, Icacos and Palominito, and the many daily trips that are available to Vieques and Culebra, both by boat and by the four airlines that served Fajardo Airport ( recently closed ): Air Culebra, Air St. Thomas, Isla Nena Air and Vieques Air Link.

Today, Damme is a popular side trip for tourists who are visiting Bruges and is a popular venue for eating out, and a destination for boat trips.

The most popular ways of travelling to Damme are by canal boat that runs during the summer high season or all year round by bus or bicycle.

She received a major refit in the 1970s and her popular fish and chip cafe-which earned her the name " the fish and chip boat "-was removed and replaced with a steak bar.

Applications for jetboats include most activities where conventional propellers are also used, but in particular passenger ferry services, coastguard and police patrol, navy and military, adventure tourism ( which is becoming increasingly popular around the globe ), pilot boat operations, surf rescue, farming, fishing, exploration, pleasure boating, and other water activities where motor boats are used.

Another popular American vacation spot is the Wellesley Island State Park on Wellesley Island, which sports hundreds of camping sites, both powered and not, and several boat ramps and docking facilities for a boater-friendly park.

The Maritime Museum ( accessible by boat trip ), the comprehensive City Museum and the Norwegian Horticultural Museum, are all popular among tourists, as are the wealth of exhibitions and concerts that the town hosts.

One popular saying goes that every family in Rauma owns a boat – this is not true, though the city has room for ca.

As a consequence, the goat has become a popular college mascot and can be found on the front of the boat house, on the boat club flag, and in various places around the college.

Past polls of public opinion show popular favor for this policy.

But for all the manifest intention to `` show off '', this was a circus with a difference, for instead of descending in quality to what is known as a popular level, it added further to the evidence that this is a very great dancing company.

* 1957 – American Bandstand, a show dedicated to the teenage " baby-boomers " by playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuts on the ABC television network.

One popular verse is 3: 5, " Behold, I am against thee, saith YHWH of hosts, and I will uncover thy skirts upon thy face ; and I will show the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.

He became a popular game show panelist, appearing mostly on Password and The Hollywood Squares.

On November 20, 1955, he appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, a popular television variety show, where he infuriated the host.

It was popular with audiences and Chaplin became the star of the show.

From 1936 to 1944, DeMille hosted and acted as pitchman for Cecil B. DeMille's Lux Radio Theater, a popular dramatic radio show of the time.

Three new families were also introduced into the show: The Connors, The Mortons and The Windasses, the Mortons and Windasses being not as popular as the Connors when introduced, and the Mortons being written out by the next year, with the Windasses being brought in to replace them

Crochet has been utilized many a time by designers on the popular reality show Project Runway.

He did some studio work for RCA that year but had relocated to Knoxville again where he worked with Homer and Jethro on WNOX's new Saturday night radio show The Tennessee Barn Dance and the popular Midday Merry Go Round.

Breeders may also breed a piebald dapple brindle ; and although dogs with this coloring are increasingly popular due to their unique markings, they are not considered standard and are not allowed to show.

Under the name Uxbridge English Dictionary making up daffynitions is a popular game on the BBC Radio 4 comedy quiz show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.

Market research indicated, however, that this scenario would not be popular, so Jess Oppenheimer changed it to make Ricky Ricardo a struggling young orchestra leader and Lucy an ordinary housewife who had show business fantasies but no talent.

The show was hugely popular, catapulting him to stardom as he toured the UK over the course of the next six months and creating, as described by Buckley, a " cult of Bowie " that was " unique — its influence lasted longer and has been more creative than perhaps almost any other force within pop fandom.

Devo remained popular in countries such as Australia, where the nationally broadcast 1970s – 1980s pop TV show Countdown was one of the first programs in the world to broadcast their video clips.

Coleman became the most popular fixture of the show, enhanced by his character's catchphrase " What ' choo talkin ' ' bout, Willis?

The show proved a huge hit, being one of the most popular on television by the mid-1950s.

During the 1970s and early 1980s, this show was probably the best-known showcase for popular country music on commercial television, aside from other half-hour performer-hosted syndicated shows ( most notably The Porter Wagoner Show, which is perhaps the only other weekly country music show of this era to approach Hee Haws longevity.

His plot failed in a matter of days, Jane Grey was beheaded, and Mary I ( 1516 – 1558 ) took the throne amidst popular demonstration in her favour in London, which contemporaries described as the largest show of affection for a Tudor monarch.

Ebbinghaus was determined to show that higher mental processes could actually be studied using experimentation, which was in opposition in the popular held thought of the time.

Heather McNamara calls a popular radio show one night while Veronica and Heather Duke are listening and talks of depressing aspects in her life ; the next day, Heather Duke tells the entire school about Heather McNamara's radio call ; McNamara attempts to take her life by overdosing on pills in the girls ' bathroom but is saved by Veronica.

The popular 1970s television variety show Hee Haw starred several well-known country and western singers and regularly lampooned the stereotypical hillbilly lifestyle.

Other luminaries include Keith Johnstone, the British teacher and writer – author of Impro, who founded the Theatre Machine and whose teachings form the foundation of the popular shortform Theatresports format, Dick Chudnow, founder of ComedySportz which evolved its family-friendly show format from Johnstone's Theatersports, Stan Wells, creator of the " Clap-In " longform style and founder of The Empty Stage Comedy Theatre in Los Angeles, and Bill Johnson, creator / director of The Magic Meathands, who pioneered the concept of " Commun-edy Outreach " by tailoring performances to non-traditional audiences, such as the homeless and foster children.