And presumeably, ITV don't have
too
much to lose by showing what the BBC didn't want. Unless cute little Tom Morley wins of course.
Actually, I think that ITV was the driving force behind Junior Eurovision, so it wasn't offered to the BBC in the first place.
Really? I didn't know that. As I understood it, the BBC declined Junior Eurovision.
IIRC, that is correct.
In regards to this programme... how bad can it be - we're always asking for more 'glitzy, live, variety' type shows and the Eurovision songs certainly class as 'variety' - most countries have a distinct type of music.
Indeed it will definally be variety.
Even though your'll all slagging it off here (and having your hourly go at ITV1) no doubt you'll all watch it and give regular 'isn't this a load of rubbish' updates throughout the evening. Just like what happened with the music awards the other night. If you don't want to watch it, watch BBC1 which has such delights as Celebrity Dog School and National Lottery Wright Ticket at the same time
I note they *do* have subtitles, but *not* in English - surely the whole point of Eurovision (apart from the aforementioned Wogan, political voting, scoring etc.) is the ability to mock the lyrics of the various countries.
Looks like they didn't do a proper camera rehearsal for song 4...