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Dancing with Stars is Strictly a hit  By Duncan Kennedy BBC News
correspondent in Los Angeles  Dancing With the Stars The show
matches professional dancers with celebrities  Just imagine,
offering the country that gave the world Ginger Rogers, Fred
Astaire and Gene Kelly, a television show that teaches people
how to dance.  It would never happen, right? Wrong. It has
happened and it is sweeping Americans off their feet.  It's
called Dancing With the Stars, and up to 20 million people are
being dazzled by its fancy footwork every week.  But the show
comes from the United Kingdom, where it's called Strictly Come
Dancing.  Simple formula  All the Americans have done is to
change its name, add a bit more pace and - quicker than you can
say "paso doble" - have produced a hit for the ABC Television
network.  Executives from ABC fell in love with the programme
after it aired in Britain on the BBC.  Its simple formula of
matching professional ballroom and Lat