Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team is an American reality television series that premiered in 2006 on Country Music Television. The series follows the auditioning process and the forming of the annual Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders squad. The series features director Kelli McGonagill Finglass and choreographer Judy Trammell (both of whom are former cheerleaders from the 1980s). Hundreds of young women audition each year and are put through the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders training camp system before being cut down to the final 36 squad members for the first home football game of the NFL preseason.