Eurovision 2013 - 14/16/18 May 2013

How backwards this lot are doing the winner and then doing more voting.

Yes I think they messed it up. They shouldn't have asked the winner to come to the stage before finishing voting even though they know who will win.

anyway, tacky talk show is about to continue here, on russian telly

Strange for the BBC to show the full credits...I thought they usually cut it before all the sponsors appeared?

Oooh, the whole show has been fantastic - we probably won't see another quite as good for a few years, but oh dear that voting sequence was very under rehearsed and it showed. I'm not sure if there were some technical issues in the first few countries, then the running order issue after the commercial break meant and then the odd winner announcement.

Anyway, it shouldn't detract from what was a brilliant effort by SVT.

Things were going far to well for SVT. Something had to give at some point and it showed in the results.

That aside, we can't forget that SVT have put on one of the best Eurovision's I've seen in a very long time.

Excellent contest ... the winner announcement strange, but welcome, as it saved time from an already overrunning show.

Shame about the few but noticeable hiccups, great fun though as expected.

Hated the BBC Opt-out midway though.

As a technicality, the result is known even before you see the presenters give their votes from around Europe. All that last hour of voting is just a show.

I agree, it flowed well apart from Eric Saade and the results. But there was no lengthy 'please laugh at my joke!' pauses like there usually is.

Bar the handling of the voting after Denmark had won, that was easily one of the slickest, professional Eurovision's I've watched for a long time.

Can we have Petra back next year in Copenhagen please?

The only opt out I saw was the Bonnie Tyler press interviews when the opted out of something. Other than that I thought they had shown the whole thing.

[quote:0479557060="nok32uk" pid="876868"][quote:0479557060="Gary McEwan" pid="876865"]That aside, we can't forget that SVT have put on one of the best Eurovision's I've seen in a very long time.[/quote:0479557060]

I agree, it flowed well apart from Eric Saade and the results. But there was no lengthy 'please laugh at my joke!' pauses like there usually is.[/quote:0479557060]

I think just having the one presenter made a whole lot of difference as well. Petra managed to do the whole thing comfortably on her own.