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So, they're saying Alexander Rybak's Eurovision landslide is all due to a general craving for authenticity. Well, he sure looks authentically emaciated and manic. But on closer inspection his winning ticket "Fairytale" is just a little bit of this: a little bit of that: and a little bit of the other:

Now we know what you're thinking. You're thinking that we can't possibly top yesterday's Eurovision profile. And you're right. We can't. Yesterday we profiled the worst Eurovision song in history, and nothing can come close to even equalling its magnificent awfulness. But here's the next best thing - the favourite to win Eurovision. Relax, though - it's performed by a child who'll you'll probably want...

A few days ago I noted an interesting thing - Twitter used as a realtime chatstream for a broadcast TV show (See here about Question Time ) in the UK. Essentially it worked very much like a conference Twitterstream (more like watching a conference on Web TV in fact) where everyone comments and labels the show with one particular name - eg #bbcqt in the above case (#xxxx is a "hashtag" in Twitterspeak)....

I did a few interviews on local radio yesterday afternoon, all asking me what the telly viewers should be looking out for tonight - which I thought was much healthier than asking me (the kiss of death) what will win....

The final is on the 16th - Yay! All very exciting. One of the ironies is that while the ESC is the gayest event on the planet, the largely homophobic Eastern Europeans take it very seriously as a matter of macho national pride. Moscow especially is a very gay-intolerant city, and local activists have scheduled their pride event to run concurrently with the ESC. I'm feeling this could all end in tears....

Every good Fairytale starts, Once upon a time.... However this one starts: Three times in one night, far away in the land of the furry tail, where the Alvedansen and a chirpy, smiling fiddler performed... ...destined to go direkt to Moscow and live happily ever after as the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 ? Well the Headline (without feat. Frida ) is that Alexander Rybak is on the Upp o...

Our look at five reasons why the UK won’t win Eurovision this year moves on to reason number two: Alexander Rybak. Catchy song, great stage show, excellent performance. Norway has clearly spotted that Eurovision is about mixing styles, introducing something a bit different (a violin-playing singer, in this case) and giving you something to watch even [...] Related posts: Reason 1 why the UK won’t win...

Norway wins Eurovision Song Contest 2009 ! Alexander Rybak won by a landslide with 387 points, the highest amount of points ever, ahead of the representatives from Iceland and Azerbaijan. Here is his performance :