Strictly Come Dancing 2026 Final: Saturday 19 December, and Every Live Show Left

Strictly Come Dancing’s 2026 live final is set for Saturday 19 December 2026, according to the entertainment site TV Zone UK and the audience-ticket agency Donaheys, with seven live Saturday shows left before the series ends. TV Zone UK, citing the series, says the run will “conclude with its live final on Saturday 19th December”, and Donaheys lists the same date. The British broadcaster’s own pages were not reachable for this story, so every fact below carries two independent sources that agree.

The weekly live shows, the Blackpool special and the final are set out in the table below and in a one-page printable you can keep by the sofa.

Strictly Come Dancing 2026 final date and remaining live shows

Donaheys, which sells tickets to the studio audience, lists every live Saturday of the 2026 series: “26th September, 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th & 31st October, 7th, 14th & 28th November, 5th, 12th & 19th December 2026”, plus Blackpool Week on 21 November. From 6 November 2026, seven of those Saturdays remain. The week numbers below count from the first live show on Saturday 26 September, which TV Zone UK and the streaming guide Freely give as the launch weekend’s live night; the day counts are our calculation from 6 November 2026.

Live show	Date	Week	Days from 6 Nov
Week 7	Saturday 7 November	7	1
Week 8	Saturday 14 November	8	8
Blackpool Week	Saturday 21 November	9	15
Week 10	Saturday 28 November	10	22
Week 11	Saturday 5 December	11	29
Week 12	Saturday 12 December	12	36
Grand Final	Saturday 19 December	13	43

Start times for the remaining shows have not been announced in these sources, so we give none; our December 2026 printable calendar and November 2026 printable calendar are a place to mark the Saturdays.

Strictly Blackpool 2026 date

Blackpool Week is on Saturday 21 November 2026, the series’ only show away from its usual studio. TV Zone UK says the show will “head to Blackpool for its annual special on Saturday 21st November”, Donaheys lists “Blackpool Week: 21st November 2026”, and the tourism site Live Blackpool says the Blackpool Tower Ballroom special is on “Saturday 21 November 2026”. It is Week 9 of the run.

Ahead of Blackpool, our guide to Children in Need 2026 covers that appeal night for readers following the autumn schedule.

Strictly Come Dancing 2026 final compared with 2025

The 2026 final lands one day earlier in the month than last year’s. In 2025 the final was on Saturday 20 December, and Karen Carney and her professional partner Carlos Gu lifted the Glitterball Trophy, the Shropshire Star and the Express & Star reported. That is last year’s result and says nothing about who will win in 2026.

Series	Final date	Winners
2025	Saturday 20 December 2025	Karen Carney and Carlos Gu
2026	Saturday 19 December 2026	Not yet danced

Free printable: the Strictly Come Dancing 2026 remaining live shows sheet lists every live Saturday left, from Week 7 to the final, with a column to pick your winner.

Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour 2027 dates

If you want to see the dancers after the series, the Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour 2027 opens on Friday 22 January 2027 at the Utilita Arena Birmingham, according to WhatsOnStage and the Yorkshire Evening Post. The tour is a separate ticketed arena show, not the televised series.

Who hosts and judges Strictly Come Dancing 2026

The 2026 hosts are the presenter Emma Willis, the professional dancer Johannes Radebe and the comedian Josh Widdicombe, per TV Zone UK, Freely and the radio site Hello Rayo. The judges are Shirley Ballas, Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse and Anton Du Beke, the same three sources say. For the American version of the format, see our guide to the Dancing with the Stars 2026 schedule.

What Strictly Come Dancing has not announced for the 2026 run

Start times for the remaining live shows and the results shows have not been published in these sources, and nor have the theme weeks for the rest of the run or the running order of couples. We will not guess any of them. The dates above come from TV Zone UK, Donaheys and Live Blackpool; check them again for changes, and compare the final’s date with Christmas Day in the UK, which falls the following Friday.