Eurovision

[LAT]

Surely you don't actually have to watch either?

[giraffe]

BGT is compulsory viewing if you have a 9 year old daughter!

[Laura]

No, but I do quite enjoy Britains Got Talent. I like the fact that the most unlikely people turn out to be very talented, and then every once in a while they show an interview with someone that makes you think, 'crikey they look like they'll be atrocious, they must be really good', and then it turns out they actually are atrocious. You never quite know. I also like the fact that they show the judges' reactions. I like the fact that Amanda Holden cries at everything - it makes me feel better that I do the same. I enjoy the look of absolute pain on Simon's face when it's really horrible. I know its very sad, but this actually amuses me. I've even been known to watch the Sunday repeat when I've already watched the Saturday programme.

[strep98]

I've done Primevil, NCIS and Have I got more news for you and still haven't completed any puzzles (did sneak a quick look at Germany and Armenia, couldn't resist)

[SparkOut]

well... I'm sschmassched and yer my best mate ever... and I made it thhhh thhh thrreewww...

but, I'd take that over BGT too. Cos of being allowed to drink so much...

[clvrlad]

well since ive decided i dont need or indeed want a tv what happened??
who won this year?

[Laura]

Don't know. But I'd put money on it not being UK.

[strep98]

Well it wasn't us

[giraffe]

Phew! It's peaceful here now. Last of the lads has gone.

[Bunnylump]

Laura I'm glad it wasn't just me who thought that woman for the UK entry was out of tune. Every time they did an advert for it I was grinding my teeth to try to cover up the awful catawalling. Positively hateful. And as for Andrew LLoyd Webber, his stuff all sounds the same to me. Absolute hogwash.

[giraffe]

It only seemed to have 3 words in the lyrics, just repeated over and over .

[strep98]

It only seemed to have 3 words in the lyrics, just repeated over and over .

Which was unusual as it was Diane Warren who wrote it and she has written 100's of songs, for Leanne Rimes, Toni Braxton etc and most of them have been big hits.

[SparkOut]

The thing about the British entry that was even worse than being out of tune was the awful gasping breaths between each line or phrase. Surely they should have given her some serious breathing training to sort that out, even if she can't actually hit/hold a note?

[Scurra]

I agree about the breathing, but she sang a fairly average song pretty well I thought. And at least it was a serious entry. Our last few have been a bit too on the "jokey" end of the spectrum (even if last year's entry was a better actual song.)

I hadn't see the Norwegian song before last night, but I had heard it, and after hearing it I thought it would do OK. When I saw the kid though, I thought it was a cert for the top three - cuteness is a major trump card (and the violin didn't hurt.) I wasn't surprised to learn that he'd previously won the Norwegian version of The X Factor...

Sorry. I promise I won't post again about Eurovision. At least not until next year.

[Cenwulf]

Watching Eurovision was very interesting for me this year.

First, I'm in the middle of the Digital Switchover (Phase 2 is on Wednesday), so I had the option of analogue or digital. I chose digital, but watched it with the sound off and subtitles on (which also translated the lyrics).
I also had my personal stereo on, set to Radio 2, listening to Kenneth the Bruce. When the 'postcards' appeared between the acts,, he gave a few comments about the singers and/or the song. (My personal favourite was his comment on Germany: one hides behind the piano, the other struts his stuff in Bacofoil trousers.)

However, there was a strange time difference between the two - the radio was about five seconds ahead of the telly. So I was hearing the singer but watching what had been sung just before. Everyone was out of synch.

[Bunnylump]

That would have sent me round the twist.

[Scurra]

Yeah, the digital/analogue thing can be very disconcerting.
You can do better than that though.
Try having an analogue signal playing, plus a DAB radio, a digital tv playing the radio and an internet stream. They will all be slightly out-of-synch. It makes the Greenwich time signal somewhat surreal

[LAT]

We have two TVs in different rooms, one analogue one digital. If I'm very quick I can sometimes yell out the answers in Mastermind just as my OH hears the questions on the digital set.

[giraffe]

If I stand by the kitchen sink I get slightly out of phase stereo from our two TV's . If you miss something on one, you get instant replay from the other.

[MBH]

I actually saw some of the semi-final stages of Eurovision while I was sorting the papers of my home office out (all across the living room floor). Usual bunch of songs as far as I could tell.

When I happen to notice it on, I enjoy BGT in the 'heats' stage where you get all the crazy acts. I like 'variety shows', and you never know what's coming on next. YouTube is always handy for anything you hear about but didn't see (such as the Susan Boyle affair) - the links to 'related' can give some nice surprises such as the dance group "Flawless"