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Step It Up & Dance FINALE Part 1 tomorrow night. This week, watch as the last five dancers are battling it out and the guest choreographers are two people that have been judging them throughout the season: Vincent Paterson and Nancy O’Meara.

Here’s the video preview of the Step It Up and Dance Finale part 1:

This week, with Oliver back in the game, the contestants work with Tina Landon to try out for a Music Video. Who is going step it up and have the chance to be cast in Tina Landon next video?

Pop sensation Rhianna and famed choreographer Tina Landon make a special guest appearance on tomorrow’s episode.

On Thursday, May 22 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT, GRAMMY® award-winning artist Rihanna drops by to discuss the importance of choreography in music videos, while the remaining dancers meet with world-renowned choreographer and guest judge Tina Landon. Landon has worked with the biggest stars in the industry including influential work with Janet Jackson, Ricky Martin, Britney Spears, Tina Turner and Shakira, and most recently choreographed Rihanna’s award-winning music video “Umbrella.” The remaining five dancers must work together on this challenge and create their own version of the Rihanna’s video. Although they are working as a team, only one dancer will be chosen the winner as one dancer takes their final bow.

Here’s a video preview of the next Step It Up and dance.

Tomorrow is a brand new episode of Step It Up and Dance. This week, the challenge is latin dancing… Cody, after winning two challenges, has to beat Miguel out in his preferred genre. Can he do it? Mochi, after being sent to the hospital for previously hurting her knee, is asked to perform a dance that requires deep lunges. Will this injury be enough to send her home?

Tomorrow, the dancers are asked to use a set of different props to portray a story on Step It Up and Dance. Miguel and Michael are put on the same team again but will their differences hinder the success of their performance?

This Thursday, the dancers challenge is to perform in a musical. Will the fact that two of the dancers have Broadway performances on their resume give them that leg-up in the performance or will the other dancers be the rising star in this episode?

You can also download Bravo’s Shows online so you can watch Bravo episodes right on your computer.

Did anyone catch the premier of Workout 3 on Bravo. I saw about it on the Today show and it looked pretty interesting. I usually think that workout people are pretty kooky. However, they made one really good point about the show. There is something really sexy about people working out. Not sure what it is. Here’s a 10 minute preview of Workout 3 on Bravo.

I’d love to hear people’s thoughts if you caught the show.

You can also download Bravo’s Shows online so you can watch Bravo episodes right on your computer.

Don’t you love the supermodel pose in the middle?

Bravo’s new creative dance competition series “Step It Up & Dance” will showcase what it takes to make it big in the cutthroat dance industry as the 12 finalists compete in weekly challenges in a variety of dance styles to get the final “call back” and the chance to become the ultimate dancer, winning $100,000. Celebrated actress and dancer Elizabeth Berkley will host the series and Emmy Award nominee and Tony Award-winning director and choreographer Jerry Mitchell (”Hairspray,” Legally Blonde”) will mentor the dancers. In addition, world-renowned director and choreographer Vincent Paterson (Madonna’s “Blond Ambition” Tour, Michael Jackson’s “Bad” Tour, and choreographer Nancy O’Meara (”Hannah Montana,” “High School Musical Tour”), will serve as judges for the competition.

Here’s a preview clip of the show:

You know I love dancing reality TV shows. I’m just sad that it’s on Bravo. Is Hulu streaming video for bravo?

I should have added this list of videos that will be initially available on my previous post about Hulu, but here’s the pretty extensive list. Granted, a lot of these videos were already being streamed on NBC.com, but nothing to this magnitude.

Videos Initially Available on Hulu

* 24
* 30 Days
* 30 Rock
* The A-Team
* Adam-12
* Age of Love
* Airwolf
* Alfred Hitchcock Hour
* Alfred Hitchcock Presents
* American Dad!
* Andy Barker P.I.
* Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?
* Arrested Development
* Back To You
* Battlestar Galactica
* Battlestar Galactica Classic
* Big Ideas for a Small Planet
* Bionic Woman
* The Blues Brothers
* The Bob Newhart Show
* Bones
* The Breakfast Club
* Breaking Away
* Buck Rogers
* Buffy the Vampire Slayer
* Bulworth
* Chicago Hope
* Chuck
* The Comebacks
* Conan the Barbarian
* Cops
* Death Sentence
* Doogie Howser, M.D.
* Dr. 90210
* Dragnet
* Family Guy
* Firsthand
* Flipping Out
* Fox Movie Channel presents “Casting Session”
* Fox Movie Channel presents “Making a Scene”
* Fox Movie Channel presents “World Premier”
* Friday Night Lights
* Heroes
* Hill Street Blues
* House
* Inside the Actors Studio
* It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
* The Jerk
* Journeyman
* K-Ville
* King Of The Hill
* Kitchen Confidential
* Kitchen Nightmares
* Kojak
* Las Vegas
* Late Night with Conan O’Brien
* Life
* The Loop
* Lost in Space
* Lou Grant
* The Mary Tyler Moore Show
* Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
* McHale’s Navy
* Miami Vice
* Monk
* Murder One
* My Bare Lady
* My Name is Earl
* Night Gallery
* October Sky
* The Office
* Over There
* Picket Fences
* The Practice
* The Pretender
* Prison Break
* Psych
* Queer Eye
* The Riches
* Rob and Amber: Against the Odds
* Saturday Night Live
* Scrubs
* Sideways
* Simon & Simon
* The Simpsons
* Solitary
* St. Elsewhere
* Stacked
* Standoff
* Talkshow with Spike Feresten
* The Tonight Show
* Vanished
* Weekend at Bernie’s
* WKRP in Cincinnati
* Woody Woodpecker

Today I read on techcrunch about Hulu finally being launched into Beta. I must admit that I hadn’t been interested in Hulu before, but I think it was because Techcrunch’s previous coverage was entertaining, but crappy. Techcrunch should have just said that this is NBC’s and Fox’s method of streaming their TV shows. Essentially competing with ABC (and many others) that are using Move Networks’ technology.

Anyway, I went and checked out Hulu. I hope they release this into beta soon, because everyone knows I love streaming TV on my computer. In fact, I think I’m almost to the point where I watch more TV on my computer than I do on my TV. Just today I was thinking that I need to find a way to connect my computer to my TV since it’s more fun to watch it on my TV.

The latest Hulu blog post has an embedded video of The Office. Here’s the full episode of The Office streamed online

This is going to be pretty cool to watch. Techcrunch said the following about content on Hulu

As for the content on Hulu, TV shows will come from Fox and NBC, and over fifteen cable channels including Bravo, E!, FX, SciFi, Sundance, and USA. Movies will come from Fox and Universal, and following a deal signed just this Friday, from Sony and MGM as well. Hulu says many of its short clips will come from independent content providers, and it’s also signing licensing deals with others such as Smithsonian and the WWE.

That’s a pretty powerful lineup. The video streaming is really interesting too. I don’t mind watching a bit of ads in order to get free tv streamed online.