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Cheer Perfection

television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ5089325
Source-derived summary

Cheer Perfection is an American reality television series that debuted on December 19, 2012, on TLC. TLC announced on February 6, 2013, that it had ordered an eight-episode second season, which premiered on August 28, 2013. Alisha Dunlap, Cassadee, R.D. Dunlap, Bonnie Crow, Alana, Ann Robinson, Torann and Robinson's husband Torey originally appeared on Toddlers & Tiaras. Dunlap owns Perfection Studios, which appeared in episodes of Toddlers & Tiaras.

After Andrea Clevenger, who appeared on Cheer Perfection, was arrested on charges relating to rape of a 13-year-old boy, TLC released a statement that the show had already been canceled and no repeats will be aired.

Synopsis

Cheer Perfection follows a group of young cheerleaders at Cheer Time Revolution, located in Sherwood, Arkansas, as they endure the world of competitive cheerleading.

Episodes

Series overview

Season 1 (2012–13)

Season 2 (2013)

Reception

David Hinckley of New York Daily News said the parents are not an endearing bunch. Brian Lowry of Variety said the show is not original. Verne Gay of Newsday said the show is dull, trivial and never, ever outrageous. Melissa Camacho of Common Sense Media gave the show 2 stars out of 5.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Cheer Perfection” is television series. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Cheer, Perfection and television, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012, 2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Cheer, Perfection and television is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “television series” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5089325. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2012 and 2013.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Cheer Perfection”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Cheer Perfection primary sources, Cheer Perfection archive and Cheer research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from Cheer Perfection” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.