The 1st series of So You Think You Can Dance premiered on 2 January 2010, beginning with one audition show which showed the auditions, choreography camp and introducing the top 14. Five elimination rounds were followed by a final, with performances and results shown on the same night. The winner's prize was the title "Britain's Favourite Dancer", ã100,000 and a trip to Hollywood, where the winner would perform in the US series finale.
The finale of the first series was held on 13 February 2010. Robbie White was injured, and could not perform. Lizzie Gough coming third, Tommy Franzén was the season runner-up, but female jazz contestant Charlie Bruce ended up as the winner.
It was also the first series were each contestants have been in the danger zone.
Former Strictly Come Dancing judge and choreographer Arlene Phillips and executive producer and creator of the show Nigel Lythgoe made up the original judging panel for series one. Louise Redknapp, Sisco Gomez and Priscilla Samuels were guest judges during the audition stages, alongside Phillips and Lythgoe.
Singer and dancer Louise Redknapp joined the panel as a permanent judge during the 'choreography camp' stage.
Choreographer and dancer Sisco Gomez became the fourth permanent judge. He joined the panel for the live shows, alongside Redknapp, Phillips and Lythgoe.
The preliminary auditions for the first series of the show were held in major cities throughout the UK in October 2009. Participants for the show had to be aged between 18 and 35 and could be amateur dancers or professionals who are not currently engaged in a professional contract. The BBC promoted auditions for the show via its official website.
On 2 January 2010, they aired an audition episode. Audition guest judges were Priscilla Samuels, Sisco Gomez and Louise Redknapp. They showed different dancers all the time, good and bad. First, they showed auditions from London, and then from Manchester.
The choreography camp is just like the Vegas week in the US. For this part, Louise Redknapp joined Lythgoe and Phillips as a main judge, and the choreographers were judging when the contestants were dancing their choreography. 100 contestants were invited to the Choreography Camp, and after the group choreographies, there were only 26 contestants in the end, and then, they picked out their top 7 female contestants and top 7 male contestants (each gender).
Overnight ratings are taken from Digital Spy and official ratings are taken from BARB.