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America's Best Dance Crew
"America's Best Dance Crew"
Format	Interactive reality game show
Written by	Jordan Allen-Dutton Erik Weiner
Directed by	Michael Simon
Presented by	Mario Lopez Layla Kayleigh
Judges	JC Chasez Lil Mama Omarion (season 5) Shane Sparks (seasons 1–4)[1]
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	5
No. of episodes	41
Production
Executive producer(s)	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(s)	Warner Horizon Television
Distributor	MTV
Broadcast
Original channel	MTV
Original run	February 7, 2008[2] – Present
Chronology
Related shows	MTV's Top Pop Group
External links
MTV.com Official website

America's Best Dance Crew, often abbreviated as ABDC, is an American television show featuring street dance crews from the United States. The show 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.^[3]

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 the fifth season, the current judges are hip-hop artist and dancer Lil Mama, former *NSYNC member JC Chasez and R&B singer Omarion. Former judge is hip-hop choreographer Shane Sparks.^[4][5] The series was originally developed for NBC.

Overview

America's Best Dance Crew is a reality show where dance crews from all over the U.S. 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 crews 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 two 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 was better and that crew stays while the other crew is eliminated. Since the first season, the winning crews also receive 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 are the crew banners. The logo on the banner represents that crew, appearing on merchandise, appearing in the background for interviews, and also just as a transition effect. When a crew is eliminated, their banner falls off the top of the stadium where the banners of the crews still in the running stand.

In August 2, 2009, as a prologue for the season four, the show premiered a special hosted by Randy Jackson called "The Top 10 Performances of All Time" where Randy son 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 Portugal, the show airs on MTV Portugal, in Argentina it airs on MTV Argentina and in Finland it airs on MTV Finland. In the Philippines, this show was aired on Solar TV.

References

External links

• Official website
• America's Best Dance Crew at the Internet Movie Database
• America's Best Dance Crew at TV.com