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Lloyd Webber Makes The Wrong Call for the UK’s Eurovision Hope

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I’m still at a loss to explain away the final decision on Your Country Needs You, the United Kingdom’s national final to decide the act we shall be sending to Moscow and the Eurovision Song Contest in May. The public vote places two contestants in “The Danger Zone” (with not a shot of Kenny Loggins in site – have we finally found someone too cheesy for Eurovision in the Log-meister?), and Andrew Lloyd Webber decides which one to take through to next week, and which one to send away with just their BFH. Damian and Charlotte were up this week.

Liveblog: UK Eurovision, Your Country Needs You

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My thoughts on the second episode of the BBC’s series of National Finals for the Eurovision Song Contest, Your Country Needs You. This will be the first show where we really see the contestants – after last week’s almost documentary like view of the initial auditions and selections, tonight we’ll be seeing them all sing love. For one act, the end of tonight will see them going home with BFH – their Bus Fare Home. 1950: And there we go. The BBC tend not to release full votes, but they’ll now know how close the voting is between all six

The Country Gets Back Up To Speed

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One of the problems of the festive period is just how much a Freighter at sea the working population is. About two weeks before Christmas, every office across the land starts to put the brakes on and slow down so ‘no work is left over Christmas.’ That’s not to mention all the office parties that go on as well. So you get the Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and Boxing Day. And then you have this fallow period where some companies just stop completely, because there’s little point working for three days. Or the other horrible option – companies working with

Thoughts on Graham Norton and the Eurovision Song Contest

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Right, I’m not sure how I feel on this one… this one being Graham Norton confirmed as the new commentator for the BBC’s coverage of the Eurovision Song Contest, replacing Terry Wogan. This isn’t the first time the commentator has changed – before Wogan the mighty Dave Lee Travis was the voice from the contest to the people of the UK – but after 35 years in the seat, Wogan was regarded as the man, much as Murray Walker was for Formula 1 coverage in the UK. And like Walker, perhaps people were a bit more forgiving of Wogan in