Just the Two of Us (TV series)

Just the Two of Us was a British television reality singing contest hosted by Vernon Kay and Tess Daly. The first series of the BBC show saw eight celebrities team up with professional singers and sing each night in duets, with one pair being eliminated every night. After each performance they were judged by a panel of industry experts. The basic format of the show was first used in another BBC programme, Strictly Come Dancing. It was cancelled in April 2007, after 2 series.

Format

During the week-long run each day all the celebrities perform a duet with a professional singer. The judges then give comments on each performance. Once the contestants have returned to the "Green Room" (Backstage), the judges each then each give the couple a score from 1 to 10. The scores create a leaderboard which forms 50% of the final result, the other half comes from the public vote via telephone and text entries.

Once the scores and votes are combined to form the final leaderboard for that day's show, the two couples at the bottom compete in a final "Sing Off", where they perform their duet again. Once both couples have performed their song for the judging panel, the four judges decide on who deserves to stay and cast their votes. The couple with the most votes from the judges leaves the show that day.

So far there have been two series, the first won by Russell Watson and Sian Reeves and the second was won by Hannah Waterman and Marti Pellow.

Only four professionals have performed in both series - Natasha Hamilton, Alexander O'Neal, Jocelyn Brown and Beverly Knight.

The panel of judges were seen as four industry professionals. The judges for series one were singer Lulu, singer and musician Stewart Copeland, celebrity vocal coach CeCe Sammy and radio DJ Trevor Nelson. In 2007 for series two, Lulu was replaced by Jackson Five star Tito Jackson. Sammy, Nelson and Copeland all returned for series two. Tara McDonald the well known UK dance vocalist was on backing vocal duty for both series.

Series 1

The first series began on 24 February 2006 and ended on 5 March 2006.

Notes

• ^ Note 1: Watson replaced Rick Astley after the latter abandoned Reeves on the eighth day of practice/rehearsals.

Series 2

The second series began on 2 January 2007 and ended on 7 January 2007.

Singer Russell Watson was originally supposed to be participating on the series with Hollyoaks actress, Loui Batley. However, after having had surgery to remove a tumour from his brain, he decided to pull out of the competition. Unlike the previous year, however, he was not replaced, so Batley was also dropped from the show.^[1]

Jo O'Meara did not participate in the second series as she was taking part in Channel 4's Celebrity Big Brother at the time.

Contestants received vocal coaching by Joshua Alamu.

International versions

These versions of the format are distributed by BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC.

Country	Name	Channel	Hosts	Judges	Air date
Australia	It Takes Two	Seven Network	Grant Denyer Terasa Livingstone (2006) Kate Ritchie (2007) Erika Heynatz (2008)	Marina Prior James Valentine Ross Wilson Amanda Pelman	28 May 2006 – 22 April 2008
Belgium	Just the Two of Us	vtm	Staff Coppens Evi Hanssen	Dirk Blanchart Hilde Norga Sofie Zaki	21 October 2006 - ?
China	名声大震	湖南卫视
Croatia	Zvijezde pjevaju	HRT	Barbara Kolar Duško Čurlić	Ksenija Erker Rajko Dujmić Martina Tomčić (2007–2009, 2011) Husein Hasanefendić (2007–2010) Vanna (2010–present)	7 April 2007 – present
Czech Republic	Duety… když hvězdy zpívají	Czech Television	Tereza Kostková (2009) Aleš Háma (2009)	Michael Prostějovský (2009) Ota Balage (2009) Linda Finková (2009) Lubomír Brabec (2009)
Estonia	Laulud tähtedega	TV3	Marko Matvere (2008) Karin Rask (2008) Eda-Ines Etti (2010) Madis Milling (2010)	Jaanus Nõgisto (2008) Anu Tali (2008) Jüri Makarov (2008) Mihkel Raud (2010) Maarja-Liis Ilus (2010) Peeter Rebane (2010)	5 October 2008 – 16 May 2010
Germany	It Takes 2	RTL	Daniel Hartwich Julia Krüger	Conchita Wurst Álvaro Soler Angelo Kelly	15 January 2017 – 12 February 2017
Greece	Just the Two of Us[2]	Mega Channel	Giorgos Kapoutzidis (2010) Doukissa Nomikou (2010) Zeta Makrypoulia (2014) Dimitris Ouggarezos (2014)	Stefanos Korkolis (2010) Kostas Tournas (2010) Athinais Nega (2010) Lydia Papaioannou (2010) Giorgos Theofanous (2014) Roula Koromila (2014) Dimitris Arvanitis (2014) Krateros Katsoulis (2014)	17 October 2010 – 2014
Netherlands	Just the Two of Us	Tien	Linda de Mol Gordon Heuckeroth	Cornald Maas Margriet Eshuijs Rob Stenders Esther Hart	11 March 2007 – 30 April 2007
Poland	Tylko nas dwoje	Polsat	Katarzyna Cichopek Mariusz Kałamaga	Irena Santor Tomasz Karolak Dorota Rabczewska	13 March 2010 – 15 May 2010
Turkey	Şarkı Söylemek Lazım	Show TV	Behzat Uygur Zeynep Tokuş	Olcayto Ahmet Tuğsuz (Season 1) Erol Büyükburç(Season 1) Fuat Güner (Season 1) İnci Çayırlı (Season 1) Oray Eğin(Season 1) Eyşan Özhim (Season 1) Zeynep Talu (Season 2) Özdemir Erdoğan (Season 2) Ayşe Özyılmazel (Season 2)	2007-2008
Vietnam	Cặp đôi hoàn hảo	VTV3	Thanh Ngọc (season 1-2) Phan Anh (season 1-3) Trấn Thành (season 2) Vy Oanh (season 2) Cát Phượng (season 3)	Lê Hoàng (season 1-2) Siu Black (season 1) Lê Minh Sơn (season 1-2) Lưu Thiên Hương (season 2) Thanh Bạch (season 3) Quang Linh (season 3) Bảo Lan (season 3)	9 October 2011 – 18 January 2015

References

External links

• Just the Two of Us at BBC Programmes
• Just the Two of Us on IMDb