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Michael Jackson's Executors Have Poor Taste in TV Dance Shows

Thu., Oct. 15, 2009 4:10 PM PDT by Jennifer Godwin

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Hey, remember earlier this summer when Michael Jackson died and So You Think You Can Dance producer Nigel Lythgoe asked Janet Jackson's old choreographer Paula Abdul to participate in a Jackson-dance-tribute episode of SYTYCD, but then someone in the Jackson conglomerate put the kibosh on the whole thing?

No, you don't remember? Well, that happened, and at the time of the rejection, Lythgoe told reporters, "We put the music through to Sony and said, 'Sony, can we clear this music?' Yesterday, we got a note back—whether it's Sony or the [Jackson] family estate, I don't know—but they would not clear the music for us. It's very sad...for some reason, we can't do the show."

Well, it turns out that the kibosh was just temporary, because next week another popular TV dance series, ABC's Dancing With the Stars, is putting on a show dedicated to Jackson's fancy footwork. Read on to find out why Jacko's team went with DWTS instead of with SYTYCD (the show that totally called first dibs!) and why that was the wrong call...

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Could Paula Abdul Bring Michael Jackson's Moves to So You Think You Can Dance?

Fri., Jun. 26, 2009 2:00 PM PDT by Jennifer Godwin

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Could Paula Abdul finally be crossing over from American Idol to So You Think You Can Dance?

SYTYCD and American Idol share a production company, so there has long been chatter that Idol judge Paula, who was a Laker Girl and choreographed many of Janet Jackson's "Control"-era videos, would bring her dancing feet to SYTYCD. So will it really happen?

Earlier this afternoon SYTYCD producer Nigel Lythgoe tweeted, "People please use Twitter-Power. Ask @PaulaAbdul to choreograph a Michael Jackson tribute on SYTYCD."

Well, Twitter got the message through. Paula just tweeted back, "Have your people call my people and let's do it lol."

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