{"id":584818,"date":"2026-04-04T10:41:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T10:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/584818\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T10:41:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T10:41:13","slug":"eurovision-2026-semi-final-running-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/584818\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurovision 2026: Semi Final running order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tAustralia performs in the second half of the Second Semi-Final, considered one of the faves.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Delta Goodrem performs in the second half of the Second Semi-Final at the Eurovision Song Contest in May.<\/p>\n<p>The Running Orders for the Semi-Finals have been revealed. The Live Shows will take place in Vienna on Tuesday 12 May (AU: May 13) and Thursday 14 May (AU: May 15).<\/p>\n<p>The Big 4 (France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom) and Host Country, Austria will also perform in the Semi-Finals, automatically qualify for the Grand Final.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tvtonight.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/unnamed-12a-1-3.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/unnamed-12a-1-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-623004\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Performing #13 of #18 acts positions Australia well in the second Semi-Final. Only Denmark ranks higher with the bookies in SF2 (given France already qualifies). Many fans have remarked \u201cEclipse\u201d could even win SF2.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time since 2022, professional juries will return to the Semi-Finals, which is good for Australia given some fan voting still suggests there remains pushback around our inclusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia performs in the second half of the Second Semi-Final, considered one of the faves. Delta Goodrem performs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-584818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}