Thursday night was a rough night on "So You Think You Can Dance," as four incredible dancers--ballroom goddess Iveta, tapper Nick, jazz sexpot Missy, and B-boy Wadi--were all sent home at once. In any other season, contestants this excellent might've easily sailed through to the top 10. But Season 8 is so fiercely competitive, it's a whole other game.

It should be pointed out that none of these dancers were up for elimination last week, when the flip-flopping judges decided at the last minute not to cut anyone. Did the fanbases of last week's bottom seven contestants, who were all given another chance, mobilize and vote in droves this Wednesday, leading to an entirely new result this week? Would Iveta, Nick, Missy, and Wadi still be around this week if two dancers HAD gone home last week? Well, at least two of them would be...as for the other two, it could just be that the "SYTYCD" race really is too close to call this year.

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There'd be "blood on the dance floor" by the night's end, warned "So You Think You Can Dance" hostess Cat Deeley. And she was barely exaggerating. OK, maybe there was no blood, but there was a whole lot of sweat and especially tears on Thursday night, when the first four dancers of Season 8 were sadly sent home.

Yes, there were four castoffs, not the usual two, due to last week's controversial decision (when the judges couldn't decide who to eliminate and instead opted to have all 20 dancers stay on for another week). But interestingly, none of the three couples who were up for elimination last week were in this week's bottom three. Last week Ryan and Ricky, Iveta and Nick, and Wadi and Missy were all safe...but this week, they were in trouble. This development indicates just how tight a race it is this year. No one is 100 percent safe on this show.

Wadi and Missy were probably the least surprising dancers to see on the chopping block this week, given that Nigel Lythgoe and Mary

Last night, the final eight competed on "The Voice," plus we found out which contestants from Team Adam and Team Cee Lo (who competed last week) made it through to this crucial round. There were no huge surprises--America voted through Adam Levine's Javier Colon and Cee Lo Green's Vicci Martinez, while those judges' respective picks were Casey Weston and Nakia--but there was still plenty of drama, and today, there is much for my Yahoo! colleague Matt Whitfield and I to discuss.

Is Adam Levine REALLY unfamiliar with Adam Lambert's "Whataya Want From Me," or (conspiracy theory alert!) was he just trying to slip in a playful jab at "The Voice's" rival show (or even trying to sabotage Nakia, who covered "WWFM")? Could Vicci Martinez or Dia Frampton steal the title next week from Javier Colon? And which bald diva will prevail from Team Xtina, Beverly McClellan or Frenchie Davis?

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Yet again, this week "The Voice" set itself apart from its biggest competition, "American Idol," with results that made it clear that this show attracts an entirely different, perhaps more enlightened audience. Last week, America voted through soft-spoken singer-songwriter girl Dia Frampton (from Team Blake) and bald, neck-tattooed rocker Beverly McClellan (from Team Xtina), and this week viewers voted for another rock chick with raw style, Vicci Martinez (from Team Cee Lo), along with smooth soulman Javier Colon (from Team Adam). Additionally, this week Cee Lo Green's own pick for his team was bear-like bluesman Nakia, while Adam Levine went with another guitar-strumming songstress, Casey Weston, for his pick.

The above-mentioned singers, combined with Blake Shelton's sweet teen crooner Xenia and Christina Aguilera's fierce diva Frenchie Davis, now comprise "The Voice" semifinals' top eight. And these are the types of contestants who, frankly, rarely stand a chance on "Idol." Three of