Game show criticism, vintage pop music, queer joy, and whatever other stuff gets us through the day.
Plays some social deduction, tabletop and live RPGs. They-them enbie.
Wuff! "Wagging Rights" gets a quick look this week. It's a show about dogs, and dog training.
Not something i expected to enjoy, but it's pleasant enough. The human story is there to be shown: Harriet Kemsley's joy at achieving anything, Rhod Gilbert's poise at doing everything, and Kae Kurd's brief entry with the big scary Riot.
Plus! The highest-scoring round i can remember on BBC Brain, big scores on Only Connect, and Rick Edwards wins House of Games.
Ah, bless. Lovely interaction with Lou Delouze (last year's winning JESC performer) and Dara (winner of the senior version of Junior Eurovision).
There's a Common Song for this year's performers. Loo break.
Floor management here is atrocious: people walking into position and wandering across shot. Carmella Milne would never put up with this.
Absolutely no pattern to the jury vote, ends up as a narrow win for FT over TVE and AMPTV. But just 11 points between the top three, we're more used to a 50-point lead.
78 televote points for SMRTV! On top of the scoreboard!!!!!! But only for a few minutes. but FOURTH PLACE!!!!!! They'll be dancing on the street of San Marino tonight!
99 televote points for AMPTV! That's the winner!
"Boo!" from Naré is the winner. Guess we're back in Yerevan next year.
RTSH reminded me of Top of the Pops circa 1992: fussy direction, dark lighting, and the vocal too far down in the mix.
Guess GPB’s big prop - a boat - took forever to get on stage. Effective.
TVE won the last place lottery, a bit nostalgic for something or someone.
Any of these songs would be an acceptable winner. Many would be significantly better.
Accountability: votes for MKRTV’s earworm, AMPTV’s bizareness, and RAI’s staging.
Interval act is self-referential PBS at Senior and Junior.
I have absolutely no idea how AMPTV did all that: dance routine, steps, cuddly ghosts, and a massive prop from nowhere. But if they’re in Yerevan next year, it’ll be no shock.
Home team PBS send a lovely retro song in waltz time.
RAI’s verbose emo canter channels the spirit of Avril Lavigne: he was a punk, she did ballet.
UA:PBC have green hairy monsters that look like (whisper it softly) bogies.
I’d like to say something nice about TG4’s entry, but it’s written by the same folk as “Laika party”, and shows zero growth. The performers deserve better.
Six songs in, and it looks like one of the LED panels on the video floor has broken and is just a blank space.
Elsewhere, a very earwormy song from the MKRTV singer, the winner of The Traitor San Marino.
Powerhouses France Télévisions sent a piano boogie like Elton, and former winners TVP a dance routine to a haunting choon.
More as it happens, if it happens.
Oh dear, it seems that Junior Eurovision has managed to fall over after just one song.
The bloke host had to fill for a very long two minutes, and they've cut to an Emergency Filler Video About Malta.
Just to say, this wouldn't have happened if they'd gone to San Marino Village Hall.
What a surprise to have a cliffhanger there.
Hannah Fry’s on Uncloaked, with Alexander from s3 and Amanda from s1.
One last week of this, thursday at 8.
Tick, tick, tick. There are no more than three murders left in the game, and good traitors would be thinking about who to murder before they cause damage in the final.
Michael is powerful at the round table, but he's shielded tonight.
Bash gets heard, though maybe Kenny voting for him will be enough to give a hope Bash could be banished.
Miranda is a good detective, but could be implicated when Joanne's banished as faithful.
Romesh has a cast-iron defence for not being a traitor (sniffled all the time yesterday), plus murdering him would throw even more shade on Leigh-Anne. And Romesh is clever.
Really smart traitors will also ask when is the right moment to throw Acaster under the bus. Could it be tonight?
More in unlisted posts after i've watched the show, sometime after 9.30.
Bumping a two-month old post because sports climber Erin McNeice is, again, on top of the world.
Second place in yesterday morning's event in Salt Lake City.
Number one - best on the planet! - in the season rankings at the demanding Boulder discipline.
Chapeau! Brava! Hurrah!
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