'Dancing with the Stars. Taniec z gwiazdami' (previously simply Taniec z gwiazdami ) is a Polish light entertainment reality television series broadcast by Polsat. It is the Polish version of the British reality TV competition Strictly Come Dancing and is part of the Dancing with the Stars franchise. The show first aired on TVN in the spring of 2005. Since then, a new season has aired every autumn and spring, except for a break between 2012 and 2013. Every Sunday, ratings average more than 7 million viewers for the first airing. The highest-rated episode was the second-season finale when ratings were around 8 million people. Since the beginning of the show, there have been four different presenters. Magda Mołek was the female host only during the show's first season. Hubert Urbański, hosted initially with Mołek during the first season, stayed with the show until mid-2007 after the fifth season. Katarzyna Skrzynecka, an actress and singer, was the female co-host in seasons 2–12. Piotr Gąsowski was introduced in 2007 as the new host to replace Hubert Urbański. He is an entertainer and an actor. In season 13, Katarzyna Skrzynecka was replaced by Natasza Urbańska as the female co-host. In season 14, both hosts were replaced by Krzysztof Ibisz, a well-known television host, and Anna Głogowska, a dancer, television host, and the winner of the 13th season. She was the female co-host in seasons 14–17. In season 18, Anna Głogowska was replaced by Paulina Sykut-Jeżyna as the female host. In season 25, Izabela Janachowska, a former professional dancer, joined the host team. Izabela Janachowska left the show after the 26th season. The judging panel is composed of Iwona Pavlović, a retired professional dancer and currently a dancing judge; Ewa Kasprzyk, theater, television and film actress; Rafał Maserak, dancer, choreographer, dance instructor and television personality and Tomasz Wygoda, dancer, actor, choreographer, teacher.

Format

The show pairs several celebrities with professional dancers who each week compete against each other to impress a panel of judges and the viewing public to survive potential elimination. Through a telephone poll, viewers vote on who should stay in the competition. The poll results are combined with the ranking of the panel of judges. The couple with the lowest number of points drop out from each episode. Each judge performs a mark out of ten, giving an overall total of forty (thirty in seasons 22-24).

Cast timeline

Color key:

Professional dancers

Color key:

Series overview

Dances

Color key: Group Dance Chart

Records

Number of perfect scores

The scores below represent the perfect scores the celebrities gained in their original season.

Highest-scoring celebrities

The scores presented below represent the best overall accumulative average scores the celebrity gained each season. Seasons where the scores were out of 30 have been rounded out of 40.

Lowest-scoring celebrities

The scores presented below represent the worst overall accumulative average scores the celebrity gained each season. Seasons where the scores were out of 30 have been rounded out of 40.

Professionals with the Most Wins

Specials

The All-Time Final

Couples

Scores

Opening: "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" – Solomon Burke (Group VOLT)

Dance Chart

Dancing on Tour

In May and June 2006, Seasons 1-3 participants went on a tour around Poland with a specially prepared dance show. The gig was called Dancing with the Stars – Dancing in your city (Taniec z Gwiazdami – Taniec w twoim Mieście). The pairs featured in the tour:

'Best Of' episode

On 13 May 2007, TVN aired a special episode of Taniec z Gwiazdami – Najpiękniejsze tańce. This time, the audience was choosing the best dance from previous seasons. The jury went dancing too and was being judged by a special one-night panel of Kuba Wojewódzki (TV personality), Szymon Majewski (comedian and TV host), and Kazimiera Szczuka (literary critic and historian, feminist, writer, host of the Polish version of The Weakest Link). The pairs performing in this episode were:

Po prostu taniec (Just Dance!)

On 9 December 2007 TVN aired a special episode of Po Prostu taniec - So You Think You Can Dance and Taniec z Gwiazdami. 4 participants of 6th season of Taniec z Gwiazdami and four dancers of 1st season of So You Think You Can Dance have danced. Audience voting results

Guinness World record

On 31 August 2008 in Kraków, the Guinness World Record was achieved. Augustin Egurolla (You Can Dance judge) and Iwona Pavlović (DWTS judge) were teaching 1635 people how to dance cha-cha-cha. Stars from Dancing with the Stars Dancers from So You Think You Can Dance"

Taniec kontra Dance (Dance vs. Dance!)

Rating Figures