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Serious question: why do so many European countries choose to sing in English? Israel aren't doing, why should the other countries?

I'm with you there John, though I reckon either France or Germany will win from what I've seen.

Quite a good 'Eurovision' song tbh.

A 'quirky' german entry? Surprisingly it really works (on first hearing at least)

:yeahthat: Fireworks too!

Embarrassing. Come on Russian, you could do better than this.

Even Graham agreed about the girlf's comment on the perspex piano.

Romania do competitive keyboard playing. Is that Cheryl Kerlsk?

And eat cheese.

Mindless tosh.

So France combine their World Cup song with their Eurovision entry? Need I comment on this?

She looks a little like Fearne. This is alright actually - she's quite good.

It's Darth Ukraine! At the beginning anyhow

Saw this lot before. How do you get so big on fish?

Reminds me too much of Harry Hill doing Britney Spears' "Womaniser"

For Turkey, that was impressive.

This isn't too bad.

It was out of tune in places... Hey - good to see you commenting from Germany Sigrid. Has the German or Danish representation been on yet? Only turned over recently...

"That sounds BAD to meee..."

Our TV revolted, and turned itself off. Is this guy off of Hollyoaks?

Oh god. We're watching too. It's amusing, but terribly rubbish... Belgium to win, so far (from what I've seen).

Have a fabulous birthday Serin! Many happy returns and hope you're having a great day...

Hmmm. Brilliant tool and such a shame... With one hand they give; and the other, they take away. http://linuxcentre.net/get_iplayer-dropped-in-response-to-bbcs-lack-of-support-for-open-source

Still only halfway through carefully reading through the link that Jono put up in the first post, but have to say I'm intrigued. This is the future of TV we're witnessing here and I urge you all to give the beta a really good go and send in your feedback... It's years ahead of the other channels' offerings. I became aware a couple of years back that the Beeb were looking at implementing something like OpenID in their internet services, but didn't see this level of integration coming - it's incredible. Any show in their (admittedly DRM hobbled) archive can become a shared viewing/livechat type experience, and their consideration of how to bring in viewers (their 'tastemaker') is spot on for this day and age in my view. Seriously, are these guys hiring? I'd love to be a part of something as ground-breaking as this. It seems the future is here, and we're watching it on the Beeb! Nice one. 'Chapeau'!

Wound up turning Vernon off yesterday as his voice sounded so dreadful, and have to say he's more suited to weekend daytimes. I'd prefer if they brought in Nihal again to cover for Scott...