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America's Best Dance Crew
Intertitle
Genre	Competitive dance Interactive Reality Game show
Directed by	Michael Simon
Presented by	Mario Lopez Layla Kayleigh
Judges	JC Chasez Lil Mama Dominic "D-Trix" Sandoval Omarion (season 5) Shane Sparks (seasons 1–4)
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	6
No. of episodes	41
Production
Executive producers	Joel Gallen Abe Hoch Randy Jackson Rob Lee Howard Schwartz Karen Schwartz Harriet Sternberg Austin Wagner
Cinematography	Scott Hylton
Running time	60/90 minutes
Production company	Warner Horizon Television
Original release
Network	MTV
Release	February 7, 2008 (2008-02-07) – present
Related
MTV's Top Pop Group

America's Best Dance Crew, often abbreviated as ABDC, is an American competitive dance reality television series that mainly features street dance crews from the United States; however, the show also occasionally features dance crews from around the world. It is produced by American Idol judge Randy Jackson, who has admitted to using the show as a platform for his banner-making company, and airs on MTV.

The show is hosted by former teen actor, two-time game show host, and Dancing with the Stars runner-up Mario Lopez, and features television personality Layla Kayleigh as the backstage correspondent. For its sixth season, the current judges include hip-hop artist and dancer Lil Mama, former *NSYNC member JC Chasez, and So You Think You Can Dance and America's Best Dance Crew alumnus Dominic "D-Trix" Sandoval. Former judges include hip-hop choreographer Shane Sparks and R&B singer Omarion.

The series was originally developed for NBC, initially titled World Moves.

Overview

America's Best Dance Crew is a reality show where dance crews from all over showcase their talent and compete for a $100,000.00 (USD) grand prize. Each week, the crews are given a challenge. The challenge is different for each crew but has the same general concept. For example, one challenge included a set of a school gym, and each crew had to incorporate beats with the props on stage (lockers, bleachers, jump ropes, etc.). Every week there is a performance/results show. Mario Lopez reveals which crews are in the bottom two. These two then do the performances they were planning on doing if they were safe and then the judges choose which crew's performance was better, and that crew stays while the other crew is eliminated. Since the first season, the winning crews also received the Golden B-Boy Trophy, a golden statue of a B-Boy doing a freeze, with the legs moving like a bobblehead. Another unique aspect of ABDC is the crew banner. The logo on a banner represents that crew, appearing on merchandise and the background for interviews, and is also used as a transition effect. When a crew is eliminated, its banner falls off the top of the stadium where the banners of the crews still in the running stand. They get to dance one last time on the stage as they "walk it out" to the song of the same name. If a crew is eliminated from the sixth place mark (fifth in Season 4 and Season 5), they will have a compilation video showing its journey on the show.

On August 2, 2009, as a prologue for season four, the show premiered a special hosted by Randy Jackson called "The Top 10 Performances of All Time," where Randy showed his top 10 picks of the first three seasons:

Season summary

International distribution

In Canada, the show airs on both MuchMusic and Musique Plus. In Italy ABDC airs on MTV Italy. In Portugal, the show airs on MTV Portugal, MTV Argentina in Argentina, MTV Russia in Russia (by the alias of "Короли Танцпола", lit. "Kings of the Dancefloor"), and the Warner Channel in Latin America. In Germany and Austria, ABDC airs on MTV Germany, VIVA, MTV Ukraine in Ukraine (by the alias of "Танцювальні бої", lit. "Dance battles"), MTV Finland in Finland, MTV Hungary in Hungary, MTV NL in the Netherlands, MTV Norway in Norway, and MTV UK in the United Kingdom. The show also airs on MTV France, where it is called Dance Crew USA. ABDC airs on Solar TV and Jack TV in the Philippines, Fiji One in Fiji and YAN TV in Vietnam for the first three seasons, and MTV Romania in Romania.

Additional Notes

• The opening title sequence created by Framework Studio won a Telly Award in 2009

References

1. The Live Auditions Special (aired on January 26, 2008) was not the season premiere of America's Best Dance Crew.
2. ^ "Dominic “D-Trix” Sandoval, Season Three Winner Of MTV’s “Randy Jackson Presents America’s Best Dance Crew,” Returns As The New Judge When Season Six Premieres April 7" TV by the Numbers; March 31, 2011
3. Ghosh, Korbi (2010-01-11). "'America's Best Dance Crew' exclusive: Is Shane Sparks being replaced?". Zap2it.com: Korbi TV. Retrieved 2010-01-11.
5. "Randy Jackson is executive producer of 'America's Best Dance Crew.'". Associated Press. Boston Herald. 2008-02-06. Retrieved 2008-02-25.
6. Rocchio, Christopher (2008-01-16). "MTV to debut Randy Jackson's 'America's Best Dance Crew' on Feb. 7". Reality TV World. Retrieved 2008-02-25.
7. Rocchio, Christopher (2008-01-24). "Rapper Lil Mama to serve as 'America's Best Dance Crew's third judge". Reality TV World. Retrieved 2008-02-25.
8. Rocchio, Christopher (2007-11-15). "MTV begins production on former NBC Randy Jackson reality series". Reality TV World. Retrieved 2011-05-23.
9. ^ "MTV - Americas Best Dance Crew". iota. March 3, 2011. Retrieved March 3, 2011.
10. "MTV.ru: Короли танцпола / Программы / Эфир" (in Russian). MTV.ru. Retrieved 30 May 2010.
11. "MTV.ua: TV / MTV Шоу /Танцювальні бої" (in Ukrainian). MTV.ua. Retrieved 8 April 2011.
12. MTV Francais.
13. "TELLY Awards / Winners". Retrieved 2011-02-03.

External links

• Official website
• America's Best Dance Crew at IMDb
• Template:Tv.com

• 2008 American television series debuts
• 2000s American television series
• 2010s American television series
• American reality television series
• Dance competitions
• Dance television shows
• English-language television series
• MTV television series