{"id":9294,"date":"2016-05-09T16:03:29","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T15:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9294"},"modified":"2016-05-10T10:45:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T09:45:37","slug":"its-eurovision-song-contest-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9294","title":{"rendered":"It’s Eurovision Song Contest Week!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"eurovision2016\"<\/a>Semi-Final 1:<\/strong>
\nTuesday 10th May, 8pm (UK),<\/strong>
\nBBC4<\/strong><\/p>\n

Semi-final 2:<\/strong>
\nThursday 12th May, 8pm (UK),<\/strong>
\nBBC4
\nTHE UK VOTES IN THIS ONE.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Grand Final:<\/strong>
\nSaturday 14th May, 8pm (UK),<\/strong>
\nBBC4<\/strong><\/p>\n

You can also watch live internationally on the Eurovision website.<\/a>\u00a0Except for viewers in the US who can watch the final on Logo<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Phew, a lot of info to take in there, and this year a lot of things that are mildly interesting –\u00a0the new voting system based on the Swedish national finals may yet confuse and delight the masses, designed as it is to keep people guessing for as long as possible. For the first time the grand final\u00a0is being broadcast in the US on Logo, so now our US chums have no excuse on missing out on all the fun – even Justin Timberlake is getting in on the action\u00a0performing during the interval of the Grand Final.<\/p>\n

Our hosts are\u00a0M\u00e5ns Zelmerl\u00f6w (who won with Heroes<\/em> last year) and Eurovision fan favourite Petra Mede who went down so well last time Sweden hosted the contest she’s been bought back by popular demand.<\/p>\n

The UK coverage will be fronted by Scott Mills and Mel Giedroyc for the semis and Graham Norton for the main event on Saturday.<\/p>\n

I quite like the UK entry, Joe and Jake with You’re Not Alone<\/em>, they’ve been drawn to perform in the second half of the grand final, I currently have a \u00a310 prop bet that they’ll do better than bottom ten on Saturday. I’ve not paid any attention to any of the other songs so far. Please remember to pay due deference to all acts otherwise you are worse than Terry Wogan and will bring the entire contest into disrepute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Semi-Final 1: Tuesday 10th May, 8pm (UK), BBC4 Semi-final 2: Thursday 12th May, 8pm (UK), BBC4 THE UK VOTES IN THIS ONE. Grand Final: Saturday 14th May, 8pm (UK), BBC4 You can also watch live internationally on the Eurovision website.\u00a0Except for viewers in the US who can watch the final on Logo. Phew, a lot\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":[803],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-2pU","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9294","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=9294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}