Episode 50's review is very late so sorry about that but it has been a very busy couple of days, with the start of the festive period and various festive activities on my schedule.

I actually watched this weeks episode over a week ago but it has taken until now to sit down and write up this weeks episode so if you haven't seen it yet please click here and select episode 50 to watch the show,

Episode 50

This weeks episode opened with an old favourite of mine which I have not danced in years. The dance was "Drip Droppin' "by Kate Sala, which has also featured on the show before. I remember when this dance came out a few years ago it was one of several dances to Alexandra Burke songs which were popular back then. Do you remember dancing "Playing with fire" or "Broken Heels" ? I'm ashamed to admit that I don't think I could do any of these now :-(

The next dance seen was "Is it over?" by Fred Whitehouse & Niels Poulsen to a track by Wynona Judd, this looks like a great dance beautiful to watch so I'll keep my eyes peeled for this one as I've not come across this yet.

"Dream lover" was the next dance we saw. Choreographed by Daniel Whittaker, this dance is great for Improvers and goes really well to the music. (I particularly like the touch steps in the dance). The music is good fun to sing along to as well as long as you remember to keep on dancing!

We've seen "Alcazar" quite a few times recently by Robbie McGowan-Hickie & Karl-Harry Winson, Karl Harry Winson is very popular at the moment with several of his dances in the linedancer magazine charts and no fewer than 6 nominations in the CBA Awards for 2016. My favourite of his is currently "Get up get down" but I don't think this has featured on the show yet, possibly a suggestion for a future episode.

"Please me" is an interesting dance with a "Bridge" which you don't see in line dancing very often, I've not done this one but one of my classes has just taught this on a weekend away so I'm sure I'll get the opportunity soon. "Please me" is a Dee Musk & Kate Sala dance. Dee Musk is someone who we've been seeing a lot of recently of on Live Laugh Line Dance and her dances have been doing very well lately. I'm looking forward to learning this one.

The floorfiller, "Uptown Funk" was next which is still a great dance to dance to - It's been around for a year now as we were dancing this after I had my little boy, and this little dance has also received a CBS nomination in the Intermediate category. I still enjoy doing this and hope it's around for a bit longer. That is something I've noticed with the majority of today's selection. Few of these are very recent which is a shame with so many great dances around at the moment.

The final dance of the evening was "Wave on wave" - our blast from the past of the week. We've seen this one on the show before but it is an absolute classic and still one I enjoy doing (if I can remember it!)

That's it for today's review - I'll upload a review for the latest episode 51 later this week, for now here are the scripts from this weeks episode. Enjoy!

Drip Droppin - Kate Sala (Adv)
Is it over? - Fred Whitehouse & Niels Poulsen (Int)
Dream Lover - Daniel Whittaker (Imp)
Alcazar - Robbie McGowan Hickie & Karl Harry Winson (Int)
Please me - Dee Musk & Kate Sala (Int)
Uptown Funk - Rob Fowler (Int)
Wave on Wave - Alan Birchall (Imp)

Welcome to this weeks review of Live Laugh Line Dance! - If you haven't watched Episode 48 the please click here to watch  Episode 48, otherwise please keep reading.

Episode 48

Before I discuss this week's episode I just want to say that I usually really enjoy watching Live! Laugh! Linedance! It's great to see what other clubs are doing across the country and beyond, to see the great line dance personalities on our screen, and the latest dances with the odd classic thrown in which makes you go 'ooh I used to do that etc.' But I have to say I was very disappointed with this weeks episode.

Classics

This was the theme of this weeks show, but all of the video clips shown have been broadcast in previous episodes and this was just a mismatch of old clips. The classics shown were: (Scripts linked in title)

Vertical Expressions - Vera Fisher & Teresa Lawrence (Int)

Shania's moment - Nathan Easey (Int)

Red hot salsa - Christina Browne (Beg) (to the longest track ever I swear)

Lamtarra Rhumba - Tony Chapman (Int)

Swamp Thang - Max Perry (Int)

Just a Memory - John Dean & Maggie Gallagher (Int)

Scotia Samba - Liz Clark & Bev Clarke (Int)

Now, before anyone gets on their high horse to defend the classics, I love all of the dance's above and I actually think a classics episode is a brilliant idea, but it would have been nice to see some of the other classic dances we do like Into the Arena & Shakatak (You can probably think of many others) and new clips - not clips recycled from previous episodes - Just a Memory was from Christmas last year (either that or someone has had a very early Christmas social this year), 

The other issue is that we only had a 'recap' show a few weeks ago, which yet again was a compilation show of previously shown clips. I could even understand if these episodes were broadcast over Christmas or the Summer holidays, perhaps if the crew wasn't available but to have this show now at a time when there are a lot of line dance weekends going on, the crystal boot nominations have been announced and dancing is very popular with the return of Strictly - it just seems silly to me, particularly with new video's being uploaded on file sharing websites like youtube and facebook week on week.

If it was to be a compilation show, why not all the CBA nominees so we can be reminded as to what we're voting for with voting details for each one 'a la' tv talent shows. Why not a current chart playlist (although how you'd work that out at the moment I wouldn't have a clue!), a compilation of up and coming choreographers or even a classic episode showing different footage and more dances rather than wasting 5 minutes of screen time on Red Hot Salsa!

I miss the line dance chat and interviews - yes Nicki Sharon spoke to Alison Biggs about the up and coming live laugh line dance! party's but they've been promoting those for a while now and I want to know more about what is going on on the line dance scene in general not just when they are filming next.

I know they filmed at Bracklesham bay and I'm sure there has been filming since then so where is the rest of the footage from this as we've seen next to nothing.

Come on Live Laugh Line Dance! You can do better than this!

Do you agree with me? Please comment below whatever your opinion