The Edinburgh Fringe Show 2009 #13 – The Boys Are Back
More recommendations from The Stage, dance moves from The Chippendales, mincing from Four Poofs and a Piano and amazing stories from Stalag Happy.
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Probably My Favourite Tweet So Far About The Fringe Podcast
Not just because of the sentiment, but because it means people are listening and discovering the podcast (as I hope they do every year). Via @benmorrisillo.
Report on the Eurovision 2009 Final
This went up on The Stage’s website this afternoon, my thoughts on the results of the Eurovision Song Contest: Not only did Rybak win, but he won in style. Scoring a massive 387 points, he smashed through the previous highest points scored record of 298 points, which belonged to Finnish Rockers Lordi in the 2006 competition. There will be a lot of Eurovision fans happy they don’t need to see Lordi mentioned as the highest scoring song ever now. It’s not quite the greatest song ever, though. Adjusting scores to take account of total points available each year, it’s beaten
My “Ones To Watch” in tonight’s Eurovision Final
The final of the Eurovision Song Contest is nearly here, so to make sure you don’t miss anything “wow†during your evening, I’ve another highlights of the show over at The Stage’s TV Today blog. As with the semi-final posts, these are not the ones to win, these are ones to watch – a subtle difference at Eurovision! Cirque Du Soleil, France, Portugal, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Malta, Norway and The United Kingdom The full post, with preview videos, can be found here.
Eurovision Coverage at The Stage
As well as the blog posts here, and the video coverage (when I can find a quiet corner here in Moscow and people who’ve not spent most of today recovering from last night’s opening ceremony), I’m also covering the event for The Stage’s TV Blogs. A direct link to the the coverage is below.
Thinking About the BBC Ratings and Renewing TV Shows
As well as the regular TV ratings, the BBC also has something called the Audience Appreciation Index, which helps them gauge the reaction from viewers to a program. It’s an imprecise science, and that’s before you start trying to get solid numbers and methodology out of the BBC. So when programs get renewed, is it ratings, AI or managers taking courageous decisions? Originally provided by the Broadcasters Audience Research Board (BARB), each programme’s AI score is now researched in-house by the BBC. It has become a shadowy, hard-to-find number which carries an almost mythic quantity for fans of programmes with
