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Get ready for some great performances, your favorite ABC stars, mouth watering food, show giveaways and lots of down home fun as the 2013 CMA Musical Festival rolls out the welcome mat at the ABC Summer Block Party

Forget the mirrorball trophy. Tonight's finale wasn't a competition; it was a master class in movement and expression. No gimmicks necessary, no drama drawn out of thin air (despite Brooke Burke-Charve's best efforts), just really fantastic dancing.

After 10 weeks of entertaining, stylized dancing from Jacoby Jones & Karina Smirnoff, Kellie Pickler & Derek Hough, Alexandra Raisman & Mark Ballas and Zendaya & Valentin Chmerkovskiy, only one couple will be crowned 'Dancing with the Stars' Champions. These four remaining couples will have one last opportunity to impress the judges and viewers on MONDAY, MAY 20, concluding with the Season Finale, TUESDAY, MAY 21 on the ABC Television Network.

The region's premier social event just added two big doses of style, elegance and star power.

Tonight's semifinal spectacular struck the perfect balance between gimmicks and knock-your-socks-off, wow performances. But at the heart of this heated competition for the mirrorball trophy is a naturally occurring spring of dramatic tension no amount of half-tone montages or hyperbolic metaphors could ever replicate: the hordes of soap-loving middle-aged women who could very well put Ingo through to the final despite his cringeworthy lack of coordination, leaving one of his wildly talented competitors out in the cold.

On this week's episode of ABC's DANCING WITH THE STARS, the judges felt 'The Bachelor' Sean Lowe took a step backwards in the Performance Show. Fan votes couldn't save him after this critique and he was eliminated from the competition.

Six remaining couples take to the dance floor, MONDAY, MAY 6 (8:00-10:01 p.m., ET) on ABC. For the first time this season, each couple will perform two routines in an effort to impress the judges and earn America's votes. In the first round, the couples will perform a traditional ballroom dance in a style that they've not yet done. In the second round, the couples will dance as part of a trio, featuring an eliminated pro or troupe member. In addition, viewers will be called to action on Twitter to choose new dance styles for each couple for the following week of competition. The new styles will include, Afro-Jazz, Disco, Flamenco, Hip-hop, Lindyhop and Charleston.

Saucy shimmying? Booty shaking? Piñata breaking? That flamboyant combo can only mean one thing: it's Latin week on DANCING WITH THE STARS once again.

Derek Hough and Kellie Pickler freestyle-rap their elation over getting three nines, Sean Lowe discusses his "amazing" and "magical" time on the dance floor with…Tristan??, and Val Chmerkovskiy gets tough with dance partner Zendaya and big brother Maks Chmerkovskiy in an all new installment of ABC.com's "Dancing with the Stars: Pre-Show" web series.

Nine remaining couples hit the dance floor and face an exciting new challenge MONDAY, APRIL 15 (8:00-10:01 p.m., ET). In another first for "Dancing with the Stars," a new twist called "Len's Side By Side Challenge" tasks each couple to perform a portion of their individual dance alongside a pro dance couple. The pro couples will include returning favorites Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Anna Trebunskaya, Tristan MacManus, Tony Dovolani, Gleb Savchenko and Chelsie Hightower. This new twist will allow the audience as well as judges to compare the celebrity's dance technique in real time to a professional's. Monday will also feature a show stopping opening number with the entire cast, returning pros and dance troupe.

No week of DANCING WITH THE STARS is complete without at least one gross hyperbole, so thank goodness this week's results show opened with a tacky montage of the stars warning that "last night they celebrated the best year of their lives, but for one start tonight will be the worst night."

At an upfront presentation held this morning at New York City's Sony Club, GSN announced plans to greenlight two new series and unveiled an impressive development slate representing GSN's ongoing commitment to originals.

How do you follow up the delightful, glittering spectacle of nostalgia and shirtlessness that is prom night, you ask? With a heavy dose of sappy sentimentality, of course - and when that doesn't work, a bit more shirtlessness.

Andy Dick shares the secret behind those abs, Sean Lowe -- destined to be Prom Queen?! -- and Derek Hough schools Kellie Pickler in the vernacular of Samurai swords in an all new installment of ABC.com's "Dancing with the Stars: Pre-Show " web series.

The competition continues as the 10 remaining celebrities celebrate "The Best Year of Their Life" through dance, MONDAY, APRIL 8 (8:00-10:01 p.m., ET). Each couple will dance to a song of the celebrities' choosing that represents a memorable time or experience in their life. In addition, each celebrity is challenged to perform a brief solo during their performance.

Wynn Las Vegas' Johnny Avello predicts the odds to win ABC's DANCING WITH THE STARS. Below, see how your favorites fared!

Wynn Las Vegas' Johnny Avello predicts the odds to win ABC's DANCING WITH THE STARS. Below, see how your favorites fared!

Picture, if you will, the most cringe-worthy walk down memory lane imaginable. I'm talking tacky dresses, bad hair and middle-aged men and women gyrating on the dance floor all in the name of reliving their glory days. By all counts, DANCING WITH THE STARS' prom night should have been just that train wreck. But ABC had the last laugh this April Fool's, because it was actually kind of awesome.

WYNN Las Vegas' Johnny Avello predicts the odds to win ABC's DANCING WITH THE STARS. Below, see how your favorites fared!

It may only be week two, but DANCING WITH THE STARS is already in full swing with enough walk-outs, breakdowns and resolve-shaking injuries to fuel a finale. This season's crop of B-listers and has-beens certainly know how to bring the petty drama. Unfortunately, that's about all most of them have to offer.