 On February 20, 2020, the show was renewed for a seventeenth season, that was set to air in the summer of 2020, but, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, the season was indefinitely postponed on June 18, 2020, however, Fox has stated that the show could return in summer 2021.A typical season of "So You Think You Can Dance" is divided between a selection process, during which expert judges select competitors from a wide pool of applicant dancers, and a competition phase, during which these 'finalists' (more typically referred to as the 'Top 20') compete for votes from home viewers.Though it is produced over the course of months, the selection phase is highly edited and usually constitutes only the first 2 to 4 weeks of aired episodes, with the competition episodes forming the remaining 7 to 9 weeks of the season.