Is anyone else worried that the BBC will pull out of Eurovision if the song selected via the 'How Do You Solve A Problem Like Eurovision?' fails to do well? There have been rumours for years that the BBC are wanting to pull out of the contest and I think the fact over recent years they have changed the selection process and programmes and that they are really going for it this year that should we fail to finish in the Top 5 that the BBC will feel their is little more they can do to help our chances of doing well again?

 

I am sure that if the BBC did drop it then Channel 5 or ITV would snap up rights to broadcast the show straight away which maybe would inject some new life into the show and selection process although it would mean that we would probably we would have to go via the semi final selection process with the BBC funding which might not be a bad thing!

The contest gets huge ratings for the BBC though so as long as that continues, i dont see the BBC pulling the plug on the contest.

no chance of the BBC pulling out I wouldn't have thought...like Aled says, they care more about their ratings than whether the UK does well in the contest

This discussion is utterly redundant until the UK stops treating the show as a total joke with complete contempt and sends something of musical merit to the competition.

 

The last time we did that was in 2002 & surprise surprise we finished 3rd.

 

Since then we've sent rubbish & got the results we richly deserved as a result.

 

No, the Eurovision is far too big to be dropped and as for the not finishing top five - I very much doubt that will happen even with juries :lol:

 

 

I predict something in the mould of an X-Factor winning song. I predict a 12th place finish.

I can't see an X Factor style Eurovision song coming anywhere near the top half of the scoreboard to be honest.

The juries will love it, hence why I reckon we'll squeeze in...just about. The tabloids will still scream that Europe hates us though...

Does it really matter what we sent in? If we'd have sent in Dima Bilan's song with an equally good artists last year, we wouldnt have won.

 

But, in relation to 'Will they pull the plug on Eurovision?' No. Ratings are big, and BBC care more about the money in their banks than the humiliation of the country. Well,

Does it really matter what we sent in? If we'd have sent in Dima Bilan's song with an equally good artists last year, we wouldnt have won.

:mellow: Of course it matters who we send in!

 

If we'd sent Dima Bilan we'd have been absolutely bummed by Eastern Europe! :lol: There is no such bloody thing as political voting - had we sent Cyndi last year we wouldn't have been humiliated to the degree that Scooch did for us...indeed, we'd have probably challenged for the top five songs that year.

 

Do you seriously think that if we sent Leona Lewis we'd end up at the bottom of the table? :lol: It's no coincidence that for the past six years we've treated the contest with pure contempt and sent any old thing regardless of quality - I wonder when our last good result was? :rolleyes: Oh yes, when we actually sent a credible and good quality song in 2002 and came third! You send trash, you get trash...

The juries will love it, hence why I reckon we'll squeeze in...just about. The tabloids will still scream that Europe hates us though...

 

People seem to automatically think that juries will go for the complete opposite of what the public will go for :lol:

 

From the sound of things, ALW will be writing this song before the winner is chosen so we will be having a bland "one-song-fits-all" offering to suit whatever singer ends up winning, so that it can be performed in the final.

 

And they won't be able to do a Virginie and change the song if it doesn't suit the singer, as you know what the British public are like - it will be percieved as another telephone voting con.

People seem to automatically think that juries will go for the complete opposite of what the public will go for :lol:

 

From the sound of things, ALW will be writing this song before the winner is chosen so we will be having a bland "one-song-fits-all" offering to suit whatever singer ends up winning, so that it can be performed in the final.

 

And they won't be able to do a Virginie and change the song if it doesn't suit the singer, as you know what the British public are like - it will be percieved as another telephone voting con.

I don't understand why we couldn't change the song AFTER the person had won - how the hell could our stupid public perceive that as a con when it's obviously trying to increase our chances of doing well? :mellow:

 

And I think that juries will go for either the bland MOR stuff or the traditional schlager...or the Shady Ladys of the contest :P

I don't understand why we couldn't change the song AFTER the person had won - how the hell could our stupid public perceive that as a con when it's obviously trying to increase our chances of doing well? :mellow:

 

And I think that juries will go for either the bland MOR stuff or the traditional schlager...or the Shady Ladys of the contest :P

 

I don't think so somehow. They will go for the best songs and performances. Simple as. The juries are made up of 5 music professionals who are not connected to Eurovision.

 

When people hear juries are coming back they seem to think we're automatically going to revert back to 1990s Eurovision :rolleyes:

 

And as for the changing of our song, I know that, and you know that, but all it will take for one journalist from one paper to see it as a con, and bam! A thousand complaints.

Virginie really shouldn't have changed her song :(

Virginie really shouldn't have changed her song :(

 

I thought Il Etait Temps was beautiful :wub:

 

She was never going to do well with either song really.

There's only one solution. Send in La Roux :P

There's only one solution. Send in La Roux :P

But where do we take the 24 seconds away from? :cry:

I thought Il Etait Temps was beautiful :wub:

 

She was never going to do well with either song really.

 

Nous C'est Vous was a tad more lively though iirc...

 

she was a very nervous performer though, I felt sorry for her when she was performing

Nous C'est Vous was a tad more lively though iirc...

 

she was a very nervous performer though, I felt sorry for her when she was performing

 

It was lively but completely unsuited to her. Il Etait Temps, however divine it was, suffered badly on the Eurovision stage.

But where do we take the 24 seconds away from? :cry:

You only need to get rid of 16 seconds.