How does tonight work?published at 19:57 BST<\/p>\n
19:57 BST<\/p>\n
The stage is set, the crowd is buzzing, and we’ve got live updates flowing. But first, here’s a brief overview of how the night is set to pan out. <\/p>\n
First it’s time for The Queen of the Night – the opening performance from last year’s winner JJ. <\/p>\n
As he performs, out come the 25 finalists who are introduced through the flag parade.<\/p>\n
Next, meet your hosts, Austrian stars, Victoria Swarovski and Michael Ostrowski. <\/p>\n
Then…showtime. <\/p>\n
There’s 25 acts to get through, one by one – buckle up and grab your snacks. <\/p>\n
If your country is competing, voting opens just before the first song is performed, and will be open for around 40 minutes after the last song, so there’s a lot of time for viewers to pick their favourites. <\/p>\n
Then, it’s time for the winners. For those in the UK, La Voix, a former Strictly Come Dancing and RuPaul’s Drag Race UK contestant, will be the UK’s first Eurovision “spokesqueen”, delivering the national jury results live from Salford during Saturday’s final.<\/p>\n
Get your scorecards ready, it’s almost time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How does tonight work?published at 19:57 BST 19:57 BST The stage is set, the crowd is buzzing, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-430971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}