Second Semi-final - Thursday 14th May

[Minnie]

The second semi-final takes place this evening, 8pm on BBC3.

Ten of these nineteen countries will go through to Saturday's final. Click the country name to see their entry.

1  Croatia
2  Ireland
3  Latvia
4  Serbia
5  Poland
6  Norway
7  Cyprus
8  Slovakia   
9  Denmark   
10  Slovenia
11  Hungary
12  Azerbaijan 
13  Greece
14  Lithuania
15  Moldova
16  Albania
17  Ukraine
18  Estonia
19  Netherlands

[Spawn]

Here we go again 

  cheers for the excelent links Minnie

 Norways the one to look out for they say.

  Our act Jade was interviewed today and she said the act who  is her strongest threat is Iceland, I could only assume she meant the Super Market as in my books pretty much all of them are going to wipe the floor with her the poor love. 

 I also saw an interview with a ex member of Bucks Fizz  who said Jade is  a Deva and will be massive after the contest. I didn't hear the end of the interview as I had prolapsed into unstoppable hysterical laughter.

[Minnie]

You're welcome Spawn

I'm surprised at some of tonight's results, a couple of good ones didn't get through and a lot of odd east European ones did. But that's Eurovision for you! I was disappointed Ireland didn't get through, I would have liked to see Poland go through too. Not forgetting Serbia and their Jeremy Spake lookalike for the sheer comedic value

What a relief to hear that Nicole Kidman and Jonathan Ross won't be presenting the final on Saturday

[mediastar]

The BBC had that bloke doing the commentary again. How bad is he? He was once a business presenter and he was so bad there Johnny Vaughan made fun of him in his comedy show which was so unfunny Vaughan got fired.

He did a news show on BBC Three and that was so bad it was shut down.

Why does Eurovision get useless presenters like him?

[Spawn]

Paddy Oconnel . He co hosted the show with Claudia Winklemen after the original host sadly died suddenly and yes it was axed because he was annoyingly unfunny.

 Hes been doing Eurovision for some years now, worst year was when James Fox was are entry and he was co presenting with Loraine Kelly ..*shudders*

 I loved the shoe song, darn shame it didnt make it.

[Minnie]

The BBC had that bloke doing the commentary again. How bad is he?

His screechy sidekick wasn't much better.

[mediastar]

O'Connell is bad because he tries to copy Wogan's sarcastic style. It will be interesting to see if yet another Irishman tries to do the same tomorrow or has the courage to develop an original presentation.