LIVING Commissions New Dieting Series

LONDON, February 14: Virgin
Media Television-owned entertainment channel LIVING has picked up a new
competition reality series, Strictly Come Dieting, from Mentorn.

The eight-part series
watches ten amateur dancers, who are in need of losing a few pounds, pair up
with dance professionals to get in shape and lose the weight through dancing.
They will be judged by a panel of dance, health and fitness professionals on
the areas of weight loss, technical style and panache. In addition, there will
be costume challenges each week, finding outfits that work for each dance, to
help the participants conquer their fears of revealing outfits.

Commissioning editor for
LIVING is Mark Sammon, and from Mentorn, Kat Lennox is series producer, with
Hannah Wyatt and Dan Barraclough as executive producers.

Claudia Rosencrantz, the
director of television for Virgin Media Television, said: “Dance dieting is
currently the hottest way to
slim down and, in an age where people will go to unbelievable lengths to lose
weight, it’s certainly the most fun! Strictly Come Dieting is totally LIVING: feel-good, hugely entertaining
and, of course, uplifting!”

—By Kristin
Brzoznowski