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Bad news that we will have to suffer it all again next year.
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That is pretty much a given for as long as the BBC remains a member of the European Broadcasting Union.
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Bad news that we will have to suffer it all again next year.
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Are people strapped into a chair and forced to watch it then? I always thought that Eurovision viewing (and commenting) was voluntary.
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The #Eurovision peak audience came at 11pm, when 10.60m (55.8% of the TV audience) were watching. |
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Fantastic for Eurovision. A stonking performance there. Be interesting to see how low ITV went!
BGT did pretty well too considering it had quite a lot working against it last night. It was its earliest ever slot with the hour long length not really working for 7pm and Eurovision denting its same day timeshift (I suspect the 7 day timeshift will be a bit larger than normal) but the average was still solid and it hit a great peak. Glad the touching ending got a massive audience. |
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Well, that was predictable regarding the winner. And to all the Eurovision defenders saying the voting is not biased, tonight proves for once and all how biased the voting was. The UKs performance wasnt great but wasnt bottom 10 worthy. It must be absolutely deflating for the hardcore Eurovision fans seeing the UK do so badly every year even when a good song is sent. I expect the rating will be lower than last year's due to all the factors which went against this year's contest. The whole show is a farce. If it wasnt for the high ratings and cheap as chips rights cost, I doubt the BBC would be showing it.
How do you explain that Austria and Netherlands - who have an even worse track record than us in the last decade - came Top 2? Seriously, how do you Samuel? The simple fact is a song that connects in terms of performance and music, as well as a nice position, will do well. Some slip by the wayside, as in any competition ever, but by and large popular ones take home the points whether you like them or not. Molly deserved better but failed due to: -Being on last which is not ideal -Many, many better performances than hers. Hers was restrained and possibly nervous. -The song did not translate as well in the arena as others -By the end people had already made up their minds who they wanted to win, I certainly had. We had a great performance in 2009 - and came 5th for our efforts. Every other year we've been utterly dreadful or dull and forgettable. The UK needs to stop acting so entitled, if we make the effort we'll do well, end of story. And no, Samuel, it is not "deflating" for hardcore Eurovision fans to see the UK do so badly - it is deflating that we send utter crap and so most of us EXPECT to do badly as a result and don't jump on the totally ill informed biased voting bandwagon. Last night Molly deserved more because the UK actually bothered to turn up this year, but not on any grand scale, so people need to stop acting so entitled and realize we need to make more effort next time. Edit: Regards to ratings, brilliant! People love the show regardless of the result
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"@TVRatingsUK: Against Eurovision, ITV's audience fell to just 0.88m/3.9% for Prey at 9pm and 0.52m/2.5% for The Americans at 10pm."
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Both about the same as last week, in fact I think The Americans went up!
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Brill rating for Eurovision. My social media feeds were absolutely rammed with it, so I thought that might be an indicator of a big audience
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Have not some countries stop entering though?
I take your point that with these ratings, the day when the UK fails to send an entry is as far off as ever. |
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Looks like it was the right result to keep BGT out of the way, to avoid it being dented like it was when it clashes with Eurovision.
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Yes, e.g. Italy for several spells, and they cited lack of interest at home for some of them. They came back, most recently from 2011 onwards.
I take your point that with these ratings, the day when the UK fails to send an entry is as far off as ever. Countries that only have 1 broadcaster as an EBU member can withdraw from the contest because there are no other broadcasters to take over. That's why there was no Italian entrant for so long. |
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Thanks, great rating but it had zip competition of course.
Wow, I think I was pretty close in the RPG! Glad I took no heed of sourpuss Dancc! ![]() But yeah, I'll hold my hands up. Got that one very wrong! |
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Surely it's obvious why Eurovision was up - the UK was on last, therefore longer to wait for those interested especially as on paper we had more of a chance this year. That and crap weather of course but the high share is more to do with the first point.
next year it's guaranteed to be lower already unless we send an obvious winner |
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Great ratings for Eurovision, although it was bound to be over 8million with the lack of any competition. In fact I think ITV shut down after 8pm. ITV couldn't really have made it any easier for the BBC, and some moan when the BBC roll over for ITV's big shows. Well ITV have just smashed that record for easiest programmes to go up against.
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Surely it's obvious why Eurovision was up - the UK was on last, therefore longer to wait for those interested especially as on paper we had more of a chance this year. That and crap weather of course but the high share is more to do with the first point.
next year it's guaranteed to be lower already unless we send an obvious winner The exceptionally weak ITV opposition was a major factor, I feel. Speaking of which, anything for Amazing Greys? |
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next year it's guaranteed to be lower already unless we send an obvious winner
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Great figure for Euriovision.
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Have not some countries stop entering though?
BBC Moscow correspondent on Breakfast was suggesting Russia may pull out next year as the various remarks about gay freedoms did not go down well in the Kremlin (although they did go out on Russian TV). |
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Well, that was predictable regarding the winner. And to all the Eurovision defenders saying the voting is not biased, tonight proves for once and all how biased the voting was. The UKs performance wasnt great but wasnt bottom 10 worthy. It must be absolutely deflating for the hardcore Eurovision fans seeing the UK do so badly every year even when a good song is sent. I expect the rating will be lower than last year's due to all the factors which went against this year's contest. The whole show is a farce. If it wasnt for the high ratings and cheap as chips rights cost, I doubt the BBC would be showing it.
Did you predict that the uk televote would award 12 points to the cleavage show that was Poland. ![]() Seriously - if that's how the uk vote, how can you criticise the way the rest of europe votes
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This may be answered elsewhere but why is Israel allowed to enter when Israel is not in Europe ? At least Turkey is half in Europe.
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Next year we won't even try, will we? It'll be another Scooch or something.
Our chances this year were a bit overstated compared to 96 but I do feel this could be the moment, like 97, where someone says "right we ARE going to do it this time" and finds a true winner. Germany did so 4 years back. Or yes we'll revert to being lazy and clueless and send Christine Bleakely reading an autocue! |
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Well, that was predictable regarding the winner. And to all the Eurovision defenders saying the voting is not biased, tonight proves for once and all how biased the voting was. The UKs performance wasnt great but wasnt bottom 10 worthy. It must be absolutely deflating for the hardcore Eurovision fans seeing the UK do so badly every year even when a good song is sent. I expect the rating will be lower than last year's due to all the factors which went against this year's contest. The whole show is a farce. If it wasnt for the high ratings and cheap as chips rights cost, I doubt the BBC would be showing it.
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This may be answered elsewhere but why is Israel allowed to enter when Israel is not in Europe ? At least Turkey is half in Europe.
BBC Moscow correspondent on Breakfast was suggesting Russia may pull out next year as the various remarks about gay freedoms did not go down well in the Kremlin (although they did go out on Russian TV). What is more embarrassing for them - the booing of Russia on a Europe wide tv programme - or the fact that their own public voted a drag act in as 3rd place (the Russian jury had it 19th) |
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