Skating with Celebrities

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Season 1
  • Network: FOX
  • Series Premiere Date: Jan 23, 2006
Season #: 2, 1
Metascore
49

Mixed or average reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 14
  3. Negative: 4 out of 14

Critic Reviews

  1. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Matthew Gilbert
    30
    What makes a cloney-baloney reality show such as the new ''Skating With Celebrities" bearable? For me, it's the constant awareness of how ''Saturday Night Live" might milk its silliness.
  2. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Storm
    30
    A genius idea so diluted by imitation that it becomes hard to watch.
  3. Variety
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    30
    "Fox attitude" in this genre demands that if a show's worth producing, it's worth overproducing, from the music to the faux tension to the various back stories (injuries, struggles, pain) designed to gin up drama.
  5. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Jose Antonio Vargas
    30
    The result is rarely funny, often humdrum, surprisingly predictable fare.

Awards & Rankings

74
#74 Best TV Season of 2006
91
#91 Most Discussed TV Season of 2006

User Reviews

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User Score
5.6

Mixed or average reviews- based on 22 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 22
  3. Negative: 9 out of 22
  1. EricE.
    Jan 18, 2008
    6
    I enjoyed this series but can see why it wasn't renewed. Was a bit of a dangerous/difficult sport to try to teach "C" level celebrities. I enjoyed this series but can see why it wasn't renewed. Was a bit of a dangerous/difficult sport to try to teach "C" level celebrities. Not nearly as good as Dancing with the Stars.… Full Review »
  2. zoroflop
    Jul 22, 2006
    0
    Possibly THE worst show ever concieved. Rips off a horrible show (dancing with the stars), to make an even more despicable one. To think, Possibly THE worst show ever concieved. Rips off a horrible show (dancing with the stars), to make an even more despicable one. To think, Arrested Development was replaced by THIS?… Full Review »
  3. cr
    Mar 2, 2006
    8
    i love this show!
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