Eurovision song contest 2018
 

I won't be watching it, but will be supporting our entry as she was born in my town Harlow.

Also the late Rik Mayell was born here.

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No point. It's all political voting and we'll be screwed for the temerity of voting to leave the EU.

Song is crap anyway but that's the penalty of letting the PC BBC run the show. :mad:

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Yes funded by our license fee.

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Personally i think Eurovision is a load of political bollocks.

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Didn't realise this was still going guess that show's whether I'll be watching it or not lol.

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As soon as someone in our family watches it then it is off to the other room.

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I skip the actual main contest and just watch the point allocation process. It's really funny watching neighbours vote top points, for their neighbours.

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Harmless mush

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We have the popcorn in and will be having our usual laugh over the whole thing. Watching it with my kids is priceless. Their disbelieving, open-mouthed amazement is entertaining in itself. :D

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You're corrupting them for life! :D

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Really despair that there was is such interest in this crap.
BBC 4 has some good stuff on ( really !) .

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UK had their/our song destroyed mid performance. Amateur level security.

In protest, someone breached the stage and every other layer of security to grab her mic mid performance and scream Nazis of the UK media. Great job on the protest though :rolleyes: making someone feel so small and embarrassing her on Live TV watched by millions, way to make yourself look like a gigantic asshole.

Could now work in favour, just seen the UK's odds drop from 200/1 to 12/1

She's decided not to perform again, as above this may go in favour. Then again performing again may shorten those odds further.

Aussie TV take on it: https://twitter.com/tibutler/status/...849183744?s=21

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The EUROvision song contest has been won by a country from the middle east...... :rofl:

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I do that, always have since I was a kid.

Bit like when kanye west did it to that young girl/woman at that award ceremony. I did laugh though, doughnut tonight was protesting about a lack of freedom only to be arrested immediately after, what a buffoon

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The European Broadcasting Union has had members from far beyond continental Europe for decades. Apparently a number of Arab middle eastern countries are also eligible to participate due to their EBU membership, but they don’t because Israel does.

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I think it should renamed as the voting has very little do do with the actual songs. Might as well have a bunfight..I've only ever purchased one winning song which still remains the best winner ever.

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The only decent song l can remember is the song that won it in 1974?.

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Don't care, haven't watched it for YEARS! I can't even remember when I last watched it it's that long ago.

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We watched Star Wars IV. Extended version.

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We watched tropic thunder probably less comedy then eurovision but tom cruise cracks me up in that film.

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I only knew it was even on becasue of this topic.

I watched Agents of SHIELD, Gotham, and Once Upon a Time. :)

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Waterloo!

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isn't it funded by the country that wins so we've not had to cough up for it for a long time. This is why Father Ted featured the attempt by Ireland to lose it by coming up with a terrible song. :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzYzVMcgWhg
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/f...mand/21521-005

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Participants make a contribution to the funding regardless of where its held, and Germany, Spain, France, Italy and the UK make the biggest contribution of all. That’s why they always get a free pass to the Saturday night final.

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https://eurovision.tv/about/faq

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I actually think it’s counterproductive for us to get a free pass to the final. We already have a problem with complacency around our Eurovision entry (goodness knows why, we haven’t won it for 20 years, which means we haven’t won it at all in the modern era with expanded participation and semi finals). Guaranteeing our final spot removes one of the key incentives to produce something good. It also reduces our exposure to the voting public. For years now, this competition hasn’t been about first impressions of a song nobody’s heard until Saturday night. Many countries promote their song extensively in the months leading up to the competition and in the week itself, all bar six of the songs have been broadcast live, and voted upon, already. Not being part of one of the midweek live broadcasts is causing all of the big five (plus the host) to miss a major promotional opportunity.

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At least they are trying to change and improve the voting systemto try and give others a better change of scoring points.

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Should be put out to pasture IMO

I'm just glad that Simon Cowell doesn't have a finger in the pie otherwise it would be on twice a week :D

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A reasonable number of people seem to enjoy it (I'm not amongst their number) - it seems harmless enough, and entertains some people (in the UK, 6.9 million people watching was the average figure, with a peak of 8.1 million).

Better viewing figures than Britain's Got Talent (which I don't watch either).

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Yeah several of my family watch both these programmes so l am certainly not going to upset them even though l don't watch them.:D

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I think the Eurovision Song Contest is totally politically motive and total bollocks.

I simply cannot understand why the BBC waste so much of OUR money. But there again each time we enter, we might as well bet on where will finish from BOTTOM

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That's why they have introduced changes to the voting in recent years.

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Israel would have to be counted "in Europe" as they would stand no chance in a middle eastern competition. Quite what Australia has to do with it other than their flag still having the Union Flag in it.

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The reason for Australia now being part of Eurovision. They were first included in 2015 as part of the 50th anniversary event.

SBS have been broadcasting Eurovision in Austrailia for over 30 years.

Also same reason that Is real and some other non EU countries take part.

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I think the problem is the mindset that attempts to categorise any entrant as a “non-EU” country. The European Broadcasting Union is nothing to do with the EU and never has been. The membership of the EBU is made up of public service broadcasters, not nation states. The broadcaster may or may not be state owned and there may be more than one member in any given country.

The EBU’s name is a historical artefact. The organisation was founded in Europe and Europe is where its centre of gravity still is, but it has long since spread to have a reach into every populated continent on earth.

The Eurovision Song Contest is its flagship event and this has retained a European bias for practical reasons. It’s a live, evening event (ok, now actually a series of events) whose audience and participants mostly come from within a couple of time zones of Central Europe. There would be serious difficulties in transplanting it too far from there. Indeed, should Australia ever win, they’re not allowed to host the next year. They have to choose a European country to do it for them. Some might say that’s the UK’s best hope of ever hosting it again ...