That's a big question, but it's essentially a contest where representatives of European nations (along with a handful of others) each submit a representative to battle it out in an international pop music competition. Each nation's entrant is often chosen through a local contest in that country — think of it as a bit like "American Idol," but with all original songs.
The most notable past winner is likely Abba, though a number of the victors have had crossover success around the world. The competition began in the 1950s and has been held each year since. You can find out more about the competition and its history in this story explaining it all from TheWrap's Jeremy Fuster .
To help take us through this year's contest, we brought in the hosts of the "Eurovangelists" podcast, comedy writers and performers Jeremy Bent, Oscar Montoya and Dimitry Pompée. The show features relatively new fan Jeremy, longtime fan and expert Dimitry and the passionate Oscar discussing and disagreeing about Eurovision. "What gave me a lot of confidence in the idea [of the podcast] is that Oscar and I have seen everything, but there are times when we do not get along," Pompée said. "Because we can't agree on what a good song is — because he's wrong."
After two rounds of semifinals earlier this week, the nations who've made it through compete Saturday, May 11 at 9 p.m. Central European Time. That's 3 p.m. Eastern, 12 p.m. Pacific here in the States.
You can watch the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 finals on Peacock, its current home after airing in the past on Bravo. You can also watch the semifinals from earlier this week, archived on the NBCUniversal streaming service.
In many nations outside of the U.S., you can stream the finals on YouTube, but the service is geoblocked in countries with exclusive streaming contracts — including Australia, Greece, Lithuania, the United Kingdom and the U.S.
"Eurovangelists" cohost Jeremy Bent told us how he first became a Eurovision fan, with cohost Dimitry inviting him over to watch the finals. "I was like, I guess so. How long is that? And he's like, four hours long ," Bent said, laughing. "There were so many points of failure in this relationship. The fact that we didn't hit any of them was a miracle."
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