And I have never been less excited.
Semi 1 – Tuesday, 8pm BBC Four
The UK votes in this one.
Semi 2 – Thursday, 8pm BBC Four
Grand Final – Saturday, 8pm, BBC1
Join Scott Mills and Rylan for the live semi-finals on BBC Four and Graham Norton on Saturday for the Eurovision Grand Final to watch Surie finish about 14th, all LIVE from Lisbon.
Don’t know what it is but I’m really not feeling it this year. Might be because I have so much stuff to catch-up with the prospect of seven plus hours of Eurovision on top doesn’t appeal, but I’m going to watch the final with friends anyway, not sure I’ll bother with the semis.
But the problem here is me. Do feel free to discuss anything Eurovision 2018 related here.
Avanti Un Altro! Primetime! Again! Coming soon!
Losing Azerbaijan AND Greece AND Armenia in the semi, and getting Albania AND the Czech Republic AND Ireland to qualify? We truly did not deserve these excellent results.
LOL at Belgium being the favourite to win for a while there though.
And now Russia and Romania are gone.
What is this timeline!?
I’m mostly posting this to spark discussion about something other than Millionaire; but in case anyone happened to miss this piece of Eurovision / political news because they have more important things going on:
The Eurovision Broadcasting Union has officially banned China’s state broadcaster, Mango TV, from broadcasting any of the rest of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, after it emerged that during Tuesday’s Semi-Final, the broadcaster deliberately hid Ireland and Albania’s entries in order to comply with a Chinese governmental ban on broadcasting depiction of same-sex relationships on television.
Actually that’s really interesting given they made a big thing of China broadcasting it not so long ago.
Only the Irish entry was censored because of the same-sex issue.
The Albanian entry was removed because of the singer’s tattoos. Not that they were offensive, but because he had some.
Here’s the singing order tonight:
01. Ukraine
02. Spain
03. Slovenia
04. Lithuania
05. Austria
06. Estonia
07. Norway
08. Portugal
— break
09. United Kingdom
10. Serbia
11. Germany
12. Albania
13. France
14. Czech Republic
15. Denmark
16. Australia
— break
17. Finland
18. Bulgaria
19. Moldova
20. Sweden
21. Hungary
22. Israel
23. The Netherlands
24. Ireland
25. Cyprus
26. Italy
And the oddsmakers have Cyprus, Israel, Ireland, France, and Lithuania (in that order) as the favorites…
So this year’s top 3 according to bookmakers are from block 3. Hoping they get it completely wrong as it shows the fresher the song the better chance it can win.
Portugal was in block 2 last year if memory serves correctly.
And a stage invasion during the UK song, of all things…
UK now gets to sing last due to the mishap…
Or not….
Personally I think a good choice. Covers her back for when we do really bad as expected can blame the stage invader.