Strictly Come Dancing is a British television show, featuring celebrities with professional dance partners competing in Ballroom and Latin dances.The title of the show suggests a continuation of the long-running series Come Dancing, with an allusion to the film Strictly Ballroom.The format has been exported to 30 other countries and has also inspired a modern-dance themed spin-off Strictly Dance Fever.
The show has run on BBC One since 2004. A sixth series finished in December 2008, and there have been five stand-alone Christmas Specials - 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008. Series four was also shown as part of the BBC's line-up on its trial High Definition channel, BBC HD.
The final of the fourth and fifth series in December 2006 and December 2007 respectively attracted audiences of over 12 million viewers , while the 2008 final had 13 million viewers.

There are six Series are completed.

The show pairs a number of celebrities with professional ballroom dancers who each week compete against each other in a competition to impress a panel of judges and the viewing public in order to survive potential elimination. Through telephone voting, viewers vote who they would like to stay, the results of the poll being combined with the ranking of the panel of judges.

As of series four, coaches are Jaclyn Spencer and Chris Marques (aka Cuban Groove) for Salsa and Mambo, and Jenny Thomas and Ryan Francois for Swing and Jive. The Argentine Tango coaches in Series three were Flavia Cacace and Vincent Simone, both of whom have subsequently competed in the show.