Not only are we residing in unmatched times, we are doing so without Eurovision (and its synonymous glitter) to assist make the pandemic we’re enduring feel just that little less bleak.
And so, SBS has taken pity on us, coming up with a whole weeks’ worth of alternative material to fill that Eurovision sized-hole in your heart
What’s on the program?
Ahead of the date the grand last would have been hung on, SBS has been showing a series of programmes that will culminate in Eurovision 2020: Big Night In! tomorrow and Eurovision: Europe Shine A Light on Sunday.
If reminiscing’s your thing, you can first tune in to SBS from 1: 30 pm to 5: 30 pm today to capture last year’s grand last, in which Australia’s Kate Miller-Heidke positioned ninth.
Then tomorrow, AKA May 16, comes SBS’s Eurovision special, Eurovision: Big Night In! from 7: 30 pm.
SBS Eurovision hosts Myf Warhurst and Joel Creasey will helm the program, which has actually been billed as a celebration of all the 2020 Eurovision artists and songs.
And at the end of it, SBS will expose which country Australian voters would have chosen to win after a countdown that will be filled with the #drama and #suspense you’ve been liking.
Spoiler alert it will not be Australia: we’re disqualified to elect ourselves, based on the official Eurovision Song Contest rules. Some things stay spiritual even in pandemic times.
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Who’s on the guestlist?
The program will also feature a studio efficiency from Montaigne, Australia’s 2020 and now-confirmed 2021 entrant
Some special visitors have likewise been set up, with Alfie Arcuri set to sing an acoustic variation of Cyprus’s 2020 tune Running.
Jessica Mauboy will likewise require to the stage to sing her 2018 Eurovision song for Australia, We Got Love, joined by Isaiah Firebrace, Miller-Heidke, Courtney Act, Electric Fields, Jaguar Jonze and Ella Hooper
There will also be contributions from last year’s Eurovision winner Duncan Laurence, 2016 entrant Dami Im and a few of the 2020 Eurovision acts.
