Three judges have been lined up for new US competition show Your Mama Don't Dance.

The eight-part series will begin on Lifetime this week and see ten young professional dancers paired with amateur "mamas" to compete for a $100,000 prize.

The channel today said top dancer Ben Vereen, choreographer and actor Cris Judd and actor-singer Vitamin C would be the judges. It will be hosted by Ian Ziering.

Producers originally told the young dancers it would be a regular competition called Dance Nation before revealing they would be paired with a "mama".