America's Best Dance Crew: Season 3
tonight on MTV at 10 p.m. ET/PT (9 p.m. C)

LOS ANGELES, January 15, 2009 ? It?s a happy new year for fans who have been eagerly
awaiting the return of "Randy Jackson Presents America's Best Dance Crew. MTV
premieres Season 3 of the hit reality dance competition series on Thursday, January
15, 2009, at 10 p.m. ET/PT (9 p.m. C), in a special 90-minute episode.

Nine talented new crews will take to the stage as an awaiting national audience
tunes in to see which ones have the best moves, the most heart and the swagger of
champions. America's Best Dance Crew will feature brand-new challenges all
designed to make this the most physically demanding season yet. As crew choreography
and teamwork are tested like never before, Season 3 promises to deliver more of the
incredible stories and heart-stopping routines viewers have come to love, all
culminating in a live season finale showdown.

Follow up:

Show devotees can log onto DanceCrew.MTV.com to catch up on Season 2 through full
episodes, cast bios and flipbooks for Season 2 winners SuperCr3w and their fellow
competitors, the Remote Control blog for show-related info and exclusive
behind-the-scenes video interviews. Fans eager for more can head over to
Dance.MTV.com to watch and vote on user-uploaded dance videos from fans across the
country.

The Season 2 finale of America?s Best Dance Crew served the competition in August,
ranking #1 across all of cable among P12 34 and delivering a 1.8 rating. For the
season, the competition series delivered a 1.8 rating among P12-34 and averaged 1.9
million total viewers (P2+) with an average of 1.4 million from our P12 34 core.
The full season of ?America?s Best Dance Crew? reached more than 76.7 million total
viewers (P2+) with 35.5 million from the core P12-34 demographic.

The show's online area averaged nearly 470 thousand visits a week and averaged at
390 thousand weekly unique visitors a week, with weekly unique usage that grew +63%
from the second season premiere to the finale. Additionally, nearly 23 million page
views and more than 6 million streams for content were generated for the second
season to date. The show has had 45 million streams since the Season 1 premiere to
date.

America's Best Dance Crew is hosted by Mario Lopez and shot on location in Los
Angeles as dance crews of five to seven members perform their hottest moves for
dance supremacy and a $100,000 cash prize. Every performance-themed episode gives
insight into the crews emotion, spirit and inspiration as they step up to the
challenge and showcase their innovative choreography and skills. Viewers from around
the country choose their favorite crews via text messaging, phone and online voting
(http://dancecrew.mtv.com). The two crews with the least number of votes will be up
for elimination with judges JC Chasez, Lil Mama and Shane Sparks making the final
call on which crew will be sent home. Correspondent Layla Kayleigh covers all the
backstage reactions as one crew is eliminated each week, ultimately revealing the
nation's best dance crew.

Randy Jackson Presents America's Best Dance Crew is executive produced by
American Idol judge Randy Jackson, Joel Gallen (Tenth Planet Productions), Hip Hop
International's Howard Schwartz and Karen Schwartz (the creators of the USA & World
Hip Hop Dance Championships), Rob Lee (Bayonne Entertainment), Harriet Sternberg and
Abe Hoch (both of Dream Merchant 21 Entertainment). Craig Erwich, Brooke Karzen and
Drew Tappon are the executives overseeing the project for Warner Horizon Television
(The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, "High School Reunion," ?Here Come the
Newlyweds). Tony DiSanto, Liz Gateley and Lauren Dolgen are the executives
overseeing the project for MTV.

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