Television Today

SATURDAYS HAVE become the worst nights on television with nothing worth watching but at least this week we can look forward to that annual rite, the Eurovision Song Contest. Most people might consider it terribly passé but you'd be surprised how many viewers do tune in anyway.
The contest has changed and improved over the years, the songs might be as forgettable as ever but there is audience participation now with telephone voting in most countries instead of those anonymous juries we accused or suspected of political and cultural bias. The monopoly of the half dozen countries who always used to win has been broken by the former East European countries who are not only eager to participate but to put on great shows as we saw in Tallinn last year. A refreshing change from some winning countries in the past who seemed to actively resent the fact that they had to host the event "yet again" and invested little planning or imagination into the night itself.
Most important of all, of cou...