12/02/2006
"US to emulate Eurovision contest"
entry posted by Inquisitor at 1:06
(permalink).
categories: Idiots
, TV
What the hell are they thinking? Eurovision is naff, and naffness can only be made tenable by a serious irony injection (which is why Terry Wogan is the only guy alive who can host the thing without making it unbearable.) Most of the rest of Europe hasn't discovered pop-cultural irony yet - see the popularity of hair-rock bands in most of the Eastern Bloc - which is why they can stand it. We can stand it because we have Wogan, and as a nation we like pop-cultural irony. The US, on the other hand, is an odd case; TV producers love pop-cultural irony but think that the audience are too dumb to take the real thing, so generally oversugar and seriously mess it up. It will be a disaster.
Oh, and file this under 'unlikely': Pete Doherty vows to stay 'drugs-free'. Like the last ten times, I suppose...