I assume the two-ways with Graham ‘Mr’ Norton, Diodato and Michael Schulte were essentially the bribes to ensure the UK, Italy and Germany broadcast it live?
I don't see that would make any difference, they could have done their two-way even if their broadcasters were showing it at a different tme
I assume the two-ways with Graham ‘Mr’ Norton, Diodato and Michael Schulte were essentially the bribes to ensure the UK, Italy and Germany broadcast it live?
I don't see that would make any difference, they could have done their two-way even if their broadcasters were showing it at a different tme
As those three broadcasters were among the holdouts from showing it on their main channels I thought it might have been a sweetener.
I rather enjoyed that, but a large element of that was that I had a Zoom open with various friends and we were making the kind of sarcastic comments to each other that we usually would at a Eurovision party (along with downing our drinks at every key change - I think I was the only one to do it when the background music behind the Rotterdam 2021 announcement modulated up a tone!)
The BBC programme was rather fab, too, and very nicely done. I agree that the EBU programme was a bit melancholy and I think that the 30 second clip of each performance format will have led to very low viewing figures from the casual audience, much like how the 60th Anniversary special rated atrociously back in 2015. Roll on Rotterdam 2021. Hopefully the various insurance considerations can be made at this stage to ensure that some kind of contest can be staged next year, even if it is a scaled-down affair (I am still very pessimistic about what our world will look like in a year’s time)
I assume the two-ways with Graham ‘Mr’ Norton, Diodato and Michael Schulte were essentially the bribes to ensure the UK, Italy and Germany broadcast it live?
Germany did not air it live. Indeed, this caused confusion over on the Eurovision reddit thread that the entire show was prerecorded, as Michael was live performing on German television as his interview was going out on Shine A Light.
It's marvellous that RUV the Icelandic broadcaster has picked up TV rights to Daði Freyr's YT hour long 'concert' a few days ago and premiered it last night. It currently headlines their RUV player page. Available online and on AppleTV.
What a fabulous night of entertainment the BBC have provided. Eurovision Come Together was a wonderful nostalgic trip with some very interesting facts. The Shine A Light production was incredible, hit the right tone, gave a brief look at every song that would have competed and was incredibly touching. Rylan's A-Z continued to provide a lot of fun and facts, with the repeat of TOTP2 continuing the look down memory lane (the programme from 2007 still had the line about it being ten years since Katrina & The Waves won for the UK).
Tonight has been the perfect evening for any new fan to experience a whirlwind history of Eurovision's past. Well done to all involved.
Is this Come Together thing live or pre-recorded? It feels like a mixture but I'm not too sure.
I was waiting until the result was announced to answer that.
Now it has been, it’s clearly pre-recorded. Graham will have just recorded all the different versions. It was short and vague enough to allow that.
The show was live from the point you saw Graham in-vision and the voting lines open.
Doing 19 versions of a show - plus all the inevitable contingency versions for a failed vote etc. would be next to impossible to do as a pre-recorded kit of parts.
On BBC One it was on 8-10 and RTÉ One it was 8-10.05, same (in BST) on TVE Internacional
On Das Erste in Germany it is on 8.55-10.55 BST - apparently according to Wikipedia it was delayed there.
But in Italy (on Rai 1) it is scheduled 7.35-10.35 BST. Where did the extra hour come from? SMTv in San Marino is also Currently simulcasting Rai 1 including ads. On RTPi (Portugal) it is being shown 9-11.15 which is also longer.
Is there a longer version which some channels are broadcasting? Or are they just using local filler material?
My guess is that Germany delayed their broadcast, and some other broadcasters did what S4C sometimes do on JESC, and took longer ad breaks and then time shifted the following parts.
There were only three 2'00" ad breaks in a 2 hour show (the NikkieTutorials stuff was the break filler) - for some commercial broadcasters 3'00" an hour wouldn't have been enough...
The show picked up a bit of pace in the last half hour and I think the hosts, who I guess will be back next year, did fairly decent job - though then again presenters have generally been of a better quality in recent years and the Netherlands has a strong history in television entertainment of course.
The show picked up a bit of pace in the last half hour and I think the hosts, who I guess will be back next year, did fairly decent job - though then again presenters have generally been of a better quality in recent years and the Netherlands has a strong history in television entertainment of course.
It definitely felt like Graham both lifted it and gave it a bit of heart in his interview.