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Aired fall 2016 · Post-Rio Olympic cast, built-in competitive edge

Fall 2016

Season twenty-three opened weeks after the Rio Olympics, drawing cast members whose performances were still fresh in the public mind. The post-Games casting angle gave the fall run an energy that standard celebrity lineups rarely generate from the start.

Filmed
Los Angeles, California
CBS Television City, Los Angeles
Premiered
Sep 12, 2016
ABC · September 2016
Episodes
13
Format
Celebrity ballroom · 13 episodes
Post-Rio Olympics cast; 13-episode fall run
Host
Tom Bergeron
twenty-third season with Tom Bergeron at the helm
On this page
  1. 01The take
  2. 02The shape of the season
  3. 03Where it sits in the canon
  4. 05Adjacent in the canon
  5. 06Also appears in
01The take

Fall 2016.

A cast arriving straight off the Olympic stage carried a competitive credibility that the format's early episodes could actually use.
02The shape of the season

A rhythm worth tracking.

Season twenty-three aired immediately after the Rio Olympics with a cast whose athletic achievements were still widely discussed. That timing gave the casting a built-in frame — viewers arrived with real context. Thirteen episodes gave the elimination arc room to develop back-half tension. The season delivered the fall format at a reliable level, with the Olympic casting thread giving it a sharper edge than most neighboring entries.

03Where it sits in the canon

The #25 slot.

Slot #25 of 34 in the Dancing with the Stars Editor's Canon. The seasons on either side show what I ranked it against.

No spoilers. Every page is reviewed before it goes live.
06Also appears in

Cross-references.

Dancing with the Stars — Editor's CanonEditor's Canon · #25
Dancing with the Stars S23 — Fall 2016 — tiered.tv