After being blissfully absent from competitive reality TV for more than a year now, Paula Abdul returns to host, judge, produce, and clean the windows on Live to Dance, which debuts tonight at 8 p.m. with a two-hour audition episode. It continues tomorrow at 8, in Survivor‘s timeslot (which it will vacate by mid-February).
The stylish preview is engaging enough, but the previews showing Paula all but weeping over contestants and telling them how special they are, never mind clapping at them like she’s wearing oven mitts, makes me grateful that it only has a limited run.
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