On May 18, 11:43 am, "Kevin M." <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Adam Bowie <[email protected]> wrote:
> > What happened to the mooted idea - I think by NBC - of doing a US
> > state by state competition along similar lines? You have two
> > semi-finals and then a final of 25 songs. You'd get three big three
> > hour spectaculars!
>
> My instinct is to mock the concept, but I frankly don't know enough
> about the Eurovision song contest, aside from a few mentions in Python
> sketches. How are winners chosen? Who decides who can participate? If
> there are judges, how are they chosen, and do they do the sort of
> televised verbal harrassing of singers that the Idol judges do?
Here's the (locked, probably to discourage fandom from hacking)
Wikipedia article--from its length alone, you will see that it's more
like a big old-school musical competition than it is a reality show,
although it does ultimately boil down to votes from viewers to
determine the winners:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest
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