Up to 670,000 saw the "Dancing Stars" semifinals on ORF 1

2023-05-06 10:08:05

Lilian Klebow and Florian Gschaider retired after injury

Vienna (OTS) – Up to 670,000 people were there on Friday, May 5, 2023, live at 8:15 p.m. on ORF 1 in a different than expected semi-final of “Dancing Stars”. After professional dancer Florian Gschaider dropped out due to injury, his celebrity partner Lilian Klebow decided not to continue dancing with another professional, but also to drop out of the competition. This was announced at the beginning of the show, the usual second show part “Dancing Stars – The Decision” was omitted. On average, 584,000 viewers followed the ninth live show of the 15th season with a market share of 25 percent.

Lilian Klebow and Florian Gschaider are not in the final

Lilian Klebow: “We had an incredibly beautiful trip and experienced so much together. We laughed, cried and danced a lot. I was able to learn an incredible amount from an incredibly wonderful person.” On the decision not to continue without Florian Gschaider: “The moment I heard Florian’s voice on the phone, I knew the answer in my heart – I won’t keep going no matter what others tell me. I’ve won a long time. I’ve won every training session with the Flo, gained a friend – and that counts more.”

On Friday, May 12, the following couples will be in the grand final live at 8:15 p.m. on ORF 1: Corinna Kamper & Danilo Campisi, Missy May & Dimitar Stefanin and Alexander Pointner & Manuela Stöckl.

“Dancing Stars” online and in ORF TELETEXT

Exciting stories, exclusive interviews and backstage information, the best photos and the “Ballroom Talk” with social media postings (#dancingstars23), which becomes a live ticker and entertaining program accompanying the show every Friday evening – that’s what dancingstars.ORF offers .at. A comprehensive streaming package with live streams and videos-on-demand of all shows will also be put together on the website and the video platform ORF-TVthek. The “Dancing Stars” Facebook page also provides news, presents snippets and snapshots and is the ideal forum for postings/comments and likes. The show is also followed on the Facebook and Instagram channels of ORF and ORF 1. The ORF TELETEXT offers a quick overview of what is happening in the magazines “Kultur und Show” and “Leute” and on its program pages. Anyone who wants to cook the favorite recipes of the “Dancing Stars” can find them on ORF extra (extra.ORF.at).

“Dancing Stars” on the ORF – barrier-free for the visually and hearing impaired audience

As with the previous seasons, the “Dancing Stars” 2023 will also be broadcast fully barrier-free on ORF 1: For blind and visually impaired people, all episodes are available in an audio version on the second audio track. The emotions in the ballroom can be experienced live by a dedicated commentator, including for people with visual impairments. Juliana Kühberger, Sandra Spick, Sebastian Aster, Gregor Waltl and Johannes Karner accompany their audience from the premiere to the finale with their special live commentary. The task of the audio commentators is to transport everything that remains hidden from their audience through acoustic image descriptions: such as the appearance of the costumes and the choreography of the dances, gestures, facial expressions and show effects. The audio commentaries spoken live can be heard by switching to the second sound channel on the remote control and on the ORF TV library. In addition, live subtitles are available for deaf and hearing-impaired viewers in ORF TELETEXT on page 777 and on the ORF-TVthek. The barrier-free programs can be accessed seven days a week as video-on-demand on the ORF-TVthek.