‘Dancing With the Stars’ Still Has Legs

Here’s a fun history tidbit to wrap your head around: When Dancing With the Stars premiered on ABC in June 2005, the first iPhone was still two years away from being released. “There was no Twitter, there was [barely any] social media,” recalls showrunner Conrad Green. “The celebrity landscape has changed enormously [since Dancing premiered]. Even television has changed, but the core concepts of what makes a good contestant and what makes someone relatable are the same now as they were 20 years ago.” So it tracks that, two decades later, the dance competition persists, despite the drastic cultural shifts in the world around it. And as Dancing enters its 34th season this fall on ABC and Disney+,…