El Gran Show

El Gran Show ("The Amazing Show") was a dance reality show airing since 2010 on América Televisión in Peru. The show is the Peruvian version of the Mexican television series Bailando por un sueño, and is also based on the British reality TV competition Strictly Come Dancing, the originator of the Dancing with the Stars franchise. The show is hosted by Gisela Valcárcel, alongside Miguel Arce, who became co-host in season sixteen. Cristian Rivero was co-host in seasons one through five, Óscar López Arias co-hosted seasons seven through eight, Paco Bazán in seasons nine through fourteen and Jaime "Choca" Mandros in seasons fifteen, and Miguel Arce beginning with the sixteen season.

El Gran Show
Genre	Reality competition
Based on	Bailando por un Sueño Strictly Come Dancing
Presented by	Gisela Valcárcel Aldo Díaz Cristian Rivero Óscar López Arias Paco Bazán Jaime "Choca" Mandros Miguel Arce
Judges	Morella Petrozzi Pachi Valle Riestra Carlos Cacho Michelle Alexander Tilsa Lozano Alfredo Di Natale Max Suffrau Phillip Butters Rosanna Lignarolo Alexis Grullón Stuart Bishop Carlos Alcántara
Country of origin	Peru
Original language	Spanish
No. of seasons	21
No. of episodes	215
Production
Executive producer	Percy Bozzetta Soldevilla
Production locations	Santa Beatriz, Lima, Peru Pachacámac, Lima, Peru
Running time	150 minutes
Production company	GV Producciones S.A.C
Original release
Network	América Televisión
Release	May 15, 2010 (2010-05-15) – December 9, 2017 (2017-12-09)

Every season, celebrities and amateur dancers (Dreamers) are paired up. Celebrities have included actors, models, singers, athletes, television hosts, and comedians. The format is similar to Bailando por un sueño and El Show De Los Sueños: 11 participants called "Dreamers" star in a dance competition in which the winner will realize a dream that becomes public knowledge, either to resolve a personal problem or to help someone else. The program focuses on social assistance that can be provided to talented people who have no economic means to achieve certain goals. The tool that these dreamers have to overcome adversity is their talent for dancing. Eleven couples (dreamer and hero) compete over 10 weekly galas, in which the couple who received the fewest telephone votes from viewers is eliminated. At the final gala, two couples compete to determine who will win the fulfilment of their dream.

Cast

Hosts

Gisela Valcárcel has been the host since the program's premiere in 2010. In season one through five, her co-host was Cristian Rivero. The season six, no did have co-host. Óscar López Arias was co-host for seasons seven through eight (2012), who was then replaced by Paco Bazán from seasons nine through fourteen (2013–15). In the 2016' season, Jaime "Choca" Mandros (who had participated in the season nine) was co-host in season fifteen and Miguel Arce in season sixteen.

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Host

Co-host

Contestant

Cast member	Seasons
	2010			2011			2012		2013			2015			2016			2017
	1	2	K	1	2	K	1	S	1	2	K	1	2	K	1	2	K	1	2	3	K
Gisela Valcárcel
Aldo Díaz
Cristian Rivero
Óscar López Arias
Paco Bazán
Gachi Rivero
Jaime "Choca" Mandros
Miguel Arce

Judging panel

The regular judges are Morella Petrozzi and Pachi Valle Riestra, both are judges in all seasons, and Carlos Cacho who entered the eight season to present. They were also members of the judging panel, but shorter periods: Carlos Alcántara (winner of the first season of Bailando por un Sueño), Stuart Bishop, Alexis Grullón (who later would participate in the show), Rosanna Lignarolo, Phillip Butters, Max Suffrau, Alfredo Di Natale and Michelle Alexander. Other celebrities, most often those who are associated with the world of dancing, music, acting or TV, and past contestants have appeared as a judge or in absence of one of the main judges, including Marco Zunino, Vania Masías, Johanna San Miguel, Abel Talamantez, Federico Salazar, Fiorella Rodríguez and Bettina Oneto. In the 2016 the format change, each week was a guest judge, who give couples 1 or 2 points more, even they could refuse to just granting it.

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Judge

Contestant

Cast member	Seasons
	2010			2011			2012		2013			2015			2016			2017
	1	2	K	1	2	K	1	S	1	2	K	1	2	K	1	2	K	1	2	3	K
Morella Petrozzi
Pachi Valle Riestra
Carlos Alcántara
Stuart Bishop
Alexis Grullón
Carlos Cacho
Rosanna Lignarolo
Phillip Butters
Max Suffrau
Alfredo Di Natale
Michelle Alexander
Tilsa Lozano

Series overview

Season	Contestants	Episodes		Originally aired		Winners	Runners-up	Third place
				First aired	Last aired
1	11	13		May 15, 2010 (2010-05-15)	August 7, 2010 (2010-08-07)	Gisela Ponce de León & Rayder Vásquez	Jesús Neyra & Cindy Tello	Maricarmen Marín & Diego Alza
2	12	12		August 14, 2010 (2010-08-14)	October 30, 2010 (2010-10-30)	Belén Estévez & Gian Frank Navarro	Karen Dejo & Edward Mávila	Miguel Rebosio & Fabianne Hayashida
3	8	7		November 6, 2010 (2010-11-06)	December 18, 2010 (2010-12-18)	Miguel Rebosio & Fabianne Hayashida	Belén Estévez & Gian Frank Navarro	Gisela Ponce de León & Rayder Vásquez
4	8	11		May 14, 2011 (2011-05-14)	July 23, 2011 (2011-07-23)	Raúl Zuazo & Dayana Calla	Leslie Shaw & Kevin Ubillus	Vanessa Terkes & Andy Sandoval
5	12	14		July 30, 2011 (2011-07-30)	October 29, 2011 (2011-10-29)	Jesús Neyra & Lucero Clavijo	Belén Estévez & Waldir Felipa	Maricielo Effio & Elí Vela
6	7	7		November 5, 2011 (2011-11-05)	December 17, 2011 (2011-12-17)	Belén Estévez & Waldir Felipa	Maricielo Effio & Elí Vela	Jesús Neyra & Lucero Clavijo
7	13	13		August 25, 2012 (2012-08-25)	November 17, 2012 (2012-11-17)	Jhoany Vegas & Pedro Ibáñez	Denisse Dibós & Eduardo Pastrana	Macs Cayo & Diana Follegati
8	8	6		November 24, 2012 (2012-11-24)	December 29, 2012 (2012-12-29)	Karen Dejo & Oreykel Hidalgo	Micheille Soifer & Christian Navarro	Alexis Grullón & Stephanie Palacios
9	12	13		May 18, 2013 (2013-05-18)	August 10, 2013 (2013-08-10)	Emilia Drago & Sergio Lois	Víctor Hugo Dávila & Lindathay Valero	Claudia Portocarrero & Joel Velázquez
10	12	12		August 17, 2013 (2013-08-17)	November 2, 2013 (2013-11-02)	Gino Pesaressi & Jacqueline Alfaro	Sheyla Rojas & Emanuel Colombo	Carolina Cano & Eduardo Pastrana
11	6	7		November 9, 2013 (2013-11-09)	December 21, 2013 (2013-12-21)	Carolina Cano & Eduardo Pastrana	Gino Pesaressi & Jacqueline Alfaro	Emilia Drago & Sergio Lois
12	12	12		May 16, 2015 (2015-05-16)	August 1, 2015 (2015-08-01)	Melissa Loza & Sergio Álvarez	Franco Cabrera & Pierina Neira	Brenda Carvalho & Irving Figueroa
13	12	13		August 8, 2015 (2015-08-08)	October 31, 2015 (2015-10-31)	Ismael La Rosa & Michelle Vallejos	Erick Elera & Andrea Huapaya	Milena Zárate & Anselmo Pedraza
14	8	7		November 7, 2015 (2015-11-07)	December 19, 2015 (2015-12-19)	Yahaira Plasencia & George Neyra	Brenda Carvalho & Pedro Ibáñez	María Grazia Gamarra & Sergio Álvarez
15	12	12		April 30, 2016 (2016-04-30)	July 23, 2016 (2016-07-23)	Milett Figueroa & Patricio Quiñones	Fiorella Cayo & Jimy García	Christian Domínguez & Isabel Acevedo
16	10	13		July 30, 2016 (2016-07-30)	October 22, 2016 (2016-10-22)	Rosángela Espinoza & Lucas Piro	Leslie Shaw & Oreykel Hidalgo	Melissa Paredes & Sergio Álvarez
17	8	8		October 29, 2016 (2016-10-29)	December 17, 2016 (2016-12-17)	Rosángela Espinoza & Lucas Piro	Thiago Cunha & Thati Lira	Fiorella Cayo & Jimy García
18	10	10		April 1, 2017 (2017-04-01)	June 3, 2017 (2017-06-03)	Diana Sánchez & Maylor Pérez	Christian Domínguez & Isabel Acevedo	Andrea Luna & Marlon Pérez
19	10	12		June 10, 2017 (2017-06-10)	August 26, 2017 (2017-08-26)	Brenda Carvalho & Kevin Ubillus	Lucas Piro & Maru Piro	Belén Estévez & Waldir Felipa
20	9	7		September 2, 2017 (2017-09-02)	October 14, 2017 (2017-10-14)	Anahí de Cárdenas & George Neyra	Vania Bludau & Oreykel Hidalgo	César Távara & Alexa Montoya
21	8	8		October 21, 2017 (2017-10-21)	December 9, 2017 (2017-12-09)	Brenda Carvalho & Pedro Ibáñez	Diana Sánchez & Sergio Álvarez	Karen Dejo & Oreykel Hidalgo
22	7	6		July 6, 2019 (2019-07-06)	August 10, 2019 (2019-08-10)	Vania Bludau & Diego Cornejo	Korina Rivadeneira & Sergio Álvarez	Natalie Vértiz & André Lecca
23	10	10		June 26, 2021 (2021-06-26)	August 28, 2021 (2021-08-28)	Korina Rivadeneira & Sergio Álvarez	Milena Zárate & Oreykel Hidalgo	Leslie Moscoso & Anthony Aranda
24	10	10		September 4, 2021 (2021-09-04)	November 6, 2021 (2021-11-06)	Isabel Acevedo & Jimy García	Gabriela Herrera & Jorge Valcárcel	Brenda Carvalho & Sergio Álvarez
25	12	TBA		October 1, 2022 (2022-10-01)	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA

Scoring and voting procedure

The first season of the Peruvian reality show “El Gran Show” was dedicated only to dance. Eleven couples, consisting of a celebrity (called a "hero") and an amateur dancer (called a "dreamer") would dance each week, and all couples would dance the same style of dance. At the end of the show, Gisela revealed who was the winning couple of the week and the bottom two couples with the lowest scores who would go into judgment.

• Scoring and the secret score: Each judge gives a 1 to 10 score, for a total score of 4 to 40. One of the scores are not shown in the same airing, it will be revealed in the end of the show with intent that couples can not add or predict final scores and keep tensions and expectations until the time of "The Case"
• The Case: The bottom two couples are automatically in risk of being eliminated. The audience members have the entire week (Saturday to Saturday) to vote for their favorite couple. The sentenced couples must induce people to vote for them. On Saturday the bottom two couples are sent to duel.
• The Duel: The bottom two couples must dance a different dance style than all the non-sentenced couples with professional dancers. While the show is airing, the represented cities of the couples are connected live to the show, to illustrate the support of the family and sometimes of the mayor. At the end of the show, before the Judgment, Gisela reveals the percentages of the two couples. The couple with lowest percentage is eliminated and their score is void.
• Faith Balls: The use of "Faith Balls" was introduced in the sixth gala of the first season, but was also used in the second season of "El Show de Los Sueños". Before Gisela revealed the percentages of the bottom two couples, a big glass cup with eight secret balls inside was brought onstage. Six balls have the El Gran Show's logo and two have an "X". Both couples choose one ball. If the chosen ball has the El Gran Show's logo, Gisela cancels the percentage and the two couples are automatically safe. But if they choose the "X", Gisela must read the results and one couple is eliminated.

See also

• Bailando por un Sueño, which contains a full list of international versions.
• Strictly Come Dancing, the original British version of the program.
• Dancing with the Stars, which contains a full list of international versions.

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