Primetime Preview: Dirty Dancing Reality Show and Grease Prequel Make Everything Old New Again

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Is somebody trying to put Baby in the corner again?

Ready to have the time of your life all over again? Because on Tuesday, February 1, at 9 p.m. EST, Fox is taking us all back to Kellerman’s Lodge as eight celebrities recreate some of the most iconic scenes and dances from the movie Dirty Dancing.

Sure, sure, Kellerman’s was a fictional location, but it was filmed at Virginia’s Mountain Lake Lodge, as was the new reality series The Real Dirty Dancing. Over the course of four episodes, the celebs — including Corbin Bleu, who played Jeffrey on the One Life to Live reboot — will be paired up and judged by the likes if Jane Brucker, whom you’ll recall played Baby’s glamtastic older sister, Lisa. (And yes, Entertainment Weekly confirms that the actress will be performing Lisa’s talent show number, “Hula Hana,” which in and of itself is reason enough to watch.)

The other celebrities featured are Brie Bella, Tyler Cameron, Cat Cora, Howie Dorough, Antonio Gates, Annielah Johnson-Reyes and Loni Love. And even if, like us, you’re not sure who most of them are, the idea of watching folks try to recreate Baby and Johnny’s famous movie-capping lift guarantees we’ll be tuning in. Still not sold? Check out the promo below and we suspect you might be!

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And if that’s not enough of a flashback for you, Paramount+ announced this week that they’ve started production on the 10-episode series Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies. According to our sister site TVLine, the series takes place in 1954, four years before the movie in which Sandy and Danny fell in love.

Storyline wise, Pink Ladies focuses on “four fed-up outcasts who dare to have fun on their own terms, sparking a moral panic that will change Rydell High forever.” No word yet on when the series will debut.

Are you as stoked about these new takes on classic films? Share your thoughts in the comments section, then flip through the gallery below in which we look at soap characters from the past who are as beloved by daytime fans as Baby and Johnny are by movie buffs.

ALL MY CHILDREN, Susan Lucci, 1970-2011 (1985 photo). ©ABC/courtesy Everett Collection

DAYS OF OUR LIVES, Joseph Mascolo joe mascolo stefano dimera NBC EC

THE GUIDING LIGHT, Kim Zimmer (ca. 1980s), 1952-2009. © CBS / Courtesy: Everett Collection

ONE LIFE TO LIVE, Philip Carey, Gene Rayburn, (1982), 1968-. © ABC / Courtesy: Everett Collection

Victoria Rowell drucilla young restless gallery jp

RYAN'S HOPE, Roscoe Born, 1975-89. ©ABC/Courtesy Everett Collection

sally THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL, Darlene Conley, (1997), 1987-. © CBS / Courtesy: Everett Collection

GENERAL HOSPITAL, noah Rick Springfield, (1982), 1963- , ph: Mario Casilli/©ABC /Courtesy Everett Collection

ANOTHER WORLD, Robin Strasser, (ca. late 1960s), 1964-99.

Darnell WilliamsDarnell Williams Photo ShootJPI StudiosWest Hollywood03/27/10©sean smith/jpistudios.com310-657-9661

THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS, Jeanne Cooper, 1997, 1973-, ph: Cliff Lipson /© CBS /Courtesy Everett Collection

todd ONE LIFE TO LIVE, Roger Howarth, (1995), 1968-2013. ph: Robert Milazzo/©ABC/courtesy Everett Collection

Susan Flannery"The Bold and the Beautiful" SetCBS Television CityLos Angeles9/25/06©Sean Smith/jpistudios.com310-657-9661Episode # 4923U.S. Airdate 10/26/06

ANOTHER WORLD, Charles Keating, 1998, 1964-1999. ph: Jim Antonucci /© NBC /Courtesy Everett Collection

ALL MY CHILDREN, center, from left: James Mitchell, Gillian Spencer, 1984, 1970-2011. /© American Broadcasting Company /Courtesy Everett Collection

THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS, Brenda Dickson, season 1, 1973

GENERAL HOSPITAL, Tristan Rogers, 1963-. © ABC / Courtesy Everett Collection

DAYS OF OUR LIVES, Frances Reid Alice Horton gallery

ALL MY CHILDREN, Michael Knight, (1993), 1970-2011. © ABC / Courtesy: Everett Collection

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<p>Copycats have come and gone, but none have matched the fearsome intensity of the late, great Joseph Mascolo’s original supervillain.</p>

<p>Kim Zimmer’s self-proclaimed “slut of Springfield” wore her sins less like a scarlet letter than a badge of honor — and by God, we loved ’er for it!</p>

<p>Rare is the character who, like the late Phil Carey’s Llanview counterpart, was tougher than the leather from which his saddles were made.</p>

<p>Victoria Rowell’s much-missed alter ego could mix it up with Genoa City’s rich and famous — and take off her earrings to throw down at a moment’s notice.</p>

<p>Before <em>General Hospital</em> had Sonny make a viable career option of “mafioso,” the late Roscoe Born actually played the inner conflict that came with a life of crime.</p>

<p>To say that the late, lamented Darlene Conley’s bodacious character was larger than life would be to altogether underestimate the magnitude of her appeal — <em>and</em> her impact.</p>

<p>Stethoscope be damned, Rick Springfield’s smooth operator was more interested in playing doctor than being one.</p>

<p><em>Mean Girls</em> got nothin’ on the deliciously vicious schemer to whom Robin Strasser gave that unforgettable nasty streak.</p>

<p>Streetwise heroes like the one Darnell Williams played are hard to come by — although <em>General Hospital</em>, we have to admit, comes pretty close with the estimable Donnell Turner’s Curtis.</p>

<p>A superstar among soap stars, the late Jeanne Cooper’s blinged-out character sparkled like a diamond — and had just as many facets.</p>

<p>In his breakout daytime role, Roger Howarth (now Austin on <em>General Hospital</em>) managed to bring a shocking lightness to what started out as an incredibly dark villain.</p>

<p>“What? Hello? No matriarch has ever packed as big a punch as the one that I, Susan Flannery, played? Well, duh!”</p>

<p>You bet, sir. We <em>will</em> raise a glass to the late Charles Keating’s alter ego, an anti-hero as sophisticated and articulate as he could be cruel and remorseless.</p>

<p>Helen Gallagher’s matriarch didn’t need glamtastic clothes or pithy one-liners to draw attention; she got it by loving every bit as harshly as she judged.</p>

<p>The villain that James Mitchell (RIP) brought to life could leave you shaking in your boots before he’d even ordered the hounds released. Then again, who doesn’t love hounds?</p>

<p>No disrespect to the amazing Jess Walton, but Brenda Dickson gave us in her version of the manicurist from hell a camp classic drenched in as much wickedness as jewelry.</p>

<p>We know Tristan Rogers is still a part of Port Charles. But we can’t help but yearn for the days when he was a superspy bringing to our screens both romantic intrigue and the regular kind.</p>

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