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Take your partners for a Strictly Come Dancing showdown

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Stepping up … ITV plans to launch its own Saturday night dance show to rival Strictly Come Dancing. Photograph: Guy Levy/BBC/PA

ITV is getting ready to rumba in a battle with the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing with plans to launch its own Saturday night dance show, according to a report in the Daily Mirror. A "top secret" pilot has been commissioned with a TV insider saying that it will be a cross between Strictly Come Dancing and Mr and Mrs. While it will not be scheduled against Strictly, it seems ITV is looking for a little tit-for-tat payback for the Beeb launching X Factor rival The Voice.

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