Dancing with the Stars 4 Returns on March 19th!

Dancing With the Stars or American Idol? It’s a good thing you won’t have to pick one or the other!

ABC said Sunday that its scheduling means you wonâ€™t have to choose. The dance contest will air at 8 p.m. Mondays and 9 p.m. Tuesdays, starting in March. The regular Tuesday slot for Foxâ€™s American Idol will be 8 p.m. Tuesdays.

“I think our fans would have been upset, Idol fans would have been upset if we had put them head to head,” Steve McPherson, president of ABC Entertainment, told TV critics on their winter tour.

ABC will announce the celebrity competitors on Good Morning America. But McPherson gave no date for the announcement and said the network is just halfway through the selection process.

In a release, ABC said the showâ€™s start date would be March 19. But ABC is likely to offer a March 18 preview, McPherson said. The show proved a major fall hit for ABC, which is owned by the Walt Disney Co.

In other news: McPherson dismissed the Donald Trump-Rosie Oâ€™Donnell feud, which started on ABCâ€™s The View. “To me, the entire thing is stupid,” McPherson said. “Itâ€™s a publicity stunt for Trump.”

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Dancing with the Stars 4 Returns on March 19th!

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