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SERBIA WIN...."it's their turn". (March 2007)

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NG
noggin Founding member
Spencer For Hire posted:
satellitetvtalk posted:
TBH - Most see Eurovision as some harmless fun I think.... After all, it's difficult to take it any other wat with Terry's commentary!


And every year the BBC has complaints about Terry's commentary 'spoiling the music'.

Some people just don't get it.


Some of the complaints are about Terry "interrupting" the music with the odd comment mid song - which does annoy people who are trying to watch the contest.

Love his acerbic asides between songs - would rather he didn't crash into them.
NG
noggin Founding member
Spencer For Hire posted:
It really gets me the way some people take Eurovision way too seriously. The whole point is it's a bit of silly, camp fun and is not by any means a method of deciding the best musical writing and performing talent in Europe.


Yep - that is the case in the UK and some other Western European countries. However to other entrants it REALLY is important. If you are a small European country - it really does put you on the map in a huge way - and now there are corporate sponsors it needn't bankrupt your state broadcaster either...
BR
Brekkie
Random thought - do you think the UK might have a better chance (or at least choose a respectable song) if we had a negative voting system so viewers voted for the song they award"nilpwar" too and the song with the least (negative) votes is the winner!

16 days later

TT
Tumble Tower
tvarksouthwest posted:
So the BBC insist Terry isn't to blame, and I must agree.

If Terry announced the wrong name it was unfortunate but not unforgiveable. It was Fearne stepping in with her size tens and immediately correcting him that turned it into such a farce - you had two acts stood there not knowing who was going to Finland!

The best way to deal with the unfolding situation would have been to stop transmission for a couple of minutes - not literally, just throw the camera on the crowd so the floor manager could brief the presenters. Then Fearne, as the non-errant presenter, to announce in full apology mode:

"Ladies and gentlemen, I'm sorry but because of a mistake in the final results, the winner is NOT as declared a few moments ago. The actual winner of Making Your Mind Up 2007 is...Scooch! Congratulations Scooch - many, many apologies Cyndi, we're so very sorry."

Yes, that would have drawn more attention to the situation, but if you screw up you should be prepared to grovel!

Well I was glad it wasn't Cyndi, I wanted it to be Scooch. I voted for Scooch. As far as I was concerned, I liked Scooch best and Cyndi second.
RM
Roger Mellie
Spencer For Hire posted:
satellitetvtalk posted:
TBH - Most see Eurovision as some harmless fun I think.... After all, it's difficult to take it any other wat with Terry's commentary!


And every year the BBC has complaints about Terry's commentary 'spoiling the music'.


The entrants do a good enough job of spoiling the music themselves! A lot of the songs deserve to be interrupted by Terry.

500 Miles or Amarillo would do better, except they had have been released before! AIUI only original (i.e unreleased) songs can be entered in Eurovision.
JR
jrothwell97
Terry should be told by management to ramble on about TOGs and flying breakfast cereal (or whatever he feels about, like he does on Radio 2) just so we can avoid hearing Scooch for three and a half minutes.
RM
Roger Mellie
jrothwell97 posted:
Terry should be told by management to ramble on about TOGs and flying breakfast cereal (or whatever he feels about, like he does on Radio 2) just so we can avoid hearing Scooch for three and a half minutes.


Laughing As Margaret Thatcher said about John Major, Scooch was the best of a very bad bunch!
TT
Tumble Tower
Roger Mellie posted:
jrothwell97 posted:
Terry should be told by management to ramble on about TOGs and flying breakfast cereal (or whatever he feels about, like he does on Radio 2) just so we can avoid hearing Scooch for three and a half minutes.


Laughing As Margaret Thatcher said about John Major, Scooch was the best of a very bad bunch!

Well actually I quite like Scooch's song "Flying the flag (for you)". During the reprise in Making Your Mind Up, I was singing along to it. Smile

I'm not saying it's overly wonderful. It's hardly a good song, but it's a good Eurovision song. I wasn't that impressed with any of the six, but Scooch was, in my opinion, the best of six fair to bad songs. The only half hopeful contender in the six.

All will be seen on the night how well or badly we do. Wouldn't it be a surprise if we won. A few weeks ago I listened to most of the foreign songs online, and wasn't that impressed with a lot of those either, so there is a hope for us.
WI
william Founding member
Anyone know anything else about the Eurovision Dance Contest?
YO
yogibarney
Love Shine A Light was a song that anyone could relate to, some of the rubbish that we've put forward as been well surprising!!
Scooch is turning pop that was popular with groups such as Bucks Fizz into the 21st century.
I've only the heard the song a couple of times, and I know all the words to Flying The Flag off by heart its a catchy song!
We will have a better chance this year than we've ever had since Katrina and The Waves
PT
Put The Telly On
With regards to last years entrant, Daz Sampson, how odd is he..?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVQkPpyug4I

And didn't we finish 19th last year? He didn't even want to finish 17th! Shocked
TR
trivialmatters
Incidentally, where does the popular catchphrase "nilpoints" come from? In Eurovision, nobody gets awarded "0 points", it starts at "1 point". So is the popular saying "nilpoints" a bit of a faux-pas, because the Eurovision presenters would never have to say "nilpoints" during the contest?

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