And would you believe it, it’s a crunch period at my real life work so I won’t have much time to actually do or watch anything. We will see what we can do though.<\/p>\n
It’s the Eurovision Song Contest<\/strong> this week, the semi-finals on Tuesday and Thursday (8pm, BBC3 with Scott Mills and Mel Giedroyc) and the big grand final is this Saturday (8pm BBC1 with Graham Norton, Nigella Lawson is “doing” our points) which will see Electro Velvet STORM to a 21st place finish. Before that at 7pm on Saturday is a Who Dares Wins Eurovision Celebrity Special,\u00a0<\/strong>I’m intrigued to find out how many possible Eurovision based lists you could do (“national finalists with ‘La’ in the title”) but evidently there’s at least eight.<\/p>\n International viewers can watch both the semis and the grand final streamed on Eurovision.tv<\/a>.<\/p>\n MEANWHILE on Here’s a super thing, The Extraordinary Story of The Crystal Maze<\/a> on Buzzfeed, with interviews with Richard O Brien, David G Croft, James Dillon, Sandra Caron and a contestant.<\/p>\n In other news, Tellycopter (NBC’s UK formats branch) have a runthrough in London THIS\u00a0Thursday (21st), although I don’t know for which of their formats because they seem to tweet me on rotation, but if you’re interested drop\u00a0contestants@nbcuni.com<\/a> a line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" And would you believe it, it’s a crunch period at my real life work so I won’t have much time to actually do or watch anything. We will see what we can do though. It’s the Eurovision Song Contest this week, the semi-finals on Tuesday and Thursday (8pm, BBC3 with Scott Mills and Mel Giedroyc)\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-2eH","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Thursday<\/del> Wednesday\u00a0night in the US it’s the first episode of long-awaited worldwide quiz sensation 500 Questions<\/strong>. If it’s rubbish and doesn’t do very well remember that we told you so<\/a>. However how will Richard Quest fare against the Demographics Dragon? We’ll soon find out! Edit: Here’s Buzzerblog’s review<\/a>.<\/p>\n