A HALLMARK WEEK FOR SYTYCD

This is the week -- the week that So You Think You Can Dance host, Cat Deeley, and judges Nigel Lythgoe and Mary Murphy have been billing as the big one! It is the week that Fox chose to air SYTYCD instead of President Obama's 8 p.m. press conference, delegating Obama's talk instead to Fox's cable outlets! It is the week of SYTYCD's 100th episode!

Talk show host and dance fan Ellen DeGeneres will sit at the judges' table -- and on the Thursday elimination show, actress Katie Holmes will perform her much-touted Judy Garland tribute! Holmes, a founding member of the Dizzy Feet Foundation, will with her song and dance routine draw attention to the Foundation. And there are all of the rumors, the so-called "spoilers." Among the rumors -- appearances by Mark Kanemura and Joshua Allen, and perhaps Ivan Kooumaev and Allison Holker.

But with all of the fanfare, it is unlikely that the real focus of the show will be lost -- because this is, in fact, a dancing competition with high stakes for the still-in-it dancers.

And with only eight dancers remaining, another two will be sent home this week -- moving fans ever closer to the crowning of a new So You Think You Can Dance champion! Who will it be? Remaining are Jeanine Mason and Jason Glover, who have already been called "stars" by the shows regular judges Lythgoe and Murphy. There are Melissa Sandvig and Ade Obayomi who narrowly escaped elimination when placed in the bottom two last week -- but have previously garnered some exemplary reviews. And there are Kayla Radomski and Evan Kasprzak who have also gotten their fair share of high praise.

In discussing the show on Twitter, DeGeneres revealed that the show's audience will not get to experience her dancing moves, but instead fans will see her sitting at the judges' table. She wrote, "I'm a guest judge on 'So You Think You Can Dance' this Wednesday night on Fox. They don't call me the Polka Queen for nothing!" Perhaps quite amazing is the fact that as SYTYCD observes its 100th episode this week, DeGeneres' own show just filmed its 1000th episode last Friday!