[aldo_14]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4703748.stm

"Eurovision is the granddaddy of all talent shows and the Super Bowl of singing," said Ben Silverman, chairman of series producers Reveille.

Wow - don't know much about Eurovision, do they?

[BlackDove]

Nobody gives a **** about Eurovision Song Contest. It needs to die.

So, good luck to the US

[karajorma]

Those yanks really don't give a damn about the Geneva Convention do they?

[Mongoose]

I can't see how this is going to do anything; American Idol brings in tens of millions of viewers every week, and I don't see any significant portion of them switching over to a new show.  Typical network exec stupidity: if a show works well for one network, we all need two or three similar ones on ours. NBC's just copying another network's success, but I can easily see it backfiring on them.

[an0n]

Eurovision has nothing to do with singing.

It's all about countries sucking up to each other with votes and Terry Wogan standing there going "God, I wish I was dead.....No, wait. I wish they were all dead."

Denmark got real pissed one year (2001, IIRC) when he called the Danish hosts Doctor Death and the Toothfairy.

[Taristin]

We already have that God Forsaken "American Idol", now we have this too?!

[StratComm]

Of course.  Network TV still has decades of futility left before they give up the ghost completely.

[phreak]

There's still the History Channel

[Ace]

A.K.A. the Caesar and Hitler channel.

[neo_hermes]

ah..i'd rather watch the history channel than american idol....

[Janos]

Last year I enjoyed the glorious Eurovision experience whilst chatting with other idiots on IRC and drinking beer

The year before that (I think?) I was just drunk with buddies.

It's like a C-class action flick or a genocide, only worse and live. Why to suffer when you can just get drunk and enjoy it?