{"id":774405,"date":"2026-09-18T06:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T06:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/774405\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T06:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T06:04:09","slug":"uks-dismal-eurovision-song-choices-to-be-examined-by-mps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/774405\/","title":{"rendered":"UK&#8217;s &#8216;dismal&#8217; Eurovision song choices to be examined by MPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The MPs&#8217; hearing will be part of the committee&#8217;s State of Play inquiry, where members of the public or others can request an evidence session to be held into a particular subject that interests or concerns them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dame Caroline told BBC News: &#8220;This application interested us because of the UK&#8217;s reputation for scoring &#8216;nul points&#8217;, coming bottom, or close to bottom in recent years at Eurovision, despite having world-class song writers and musicians.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Eurovision final has consistently been one of the UK&#8217;s most popular music events, with millions staying up late to watch the final result.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">No time frame for the select committee hearing has been set yet, but once all the evidence has been examined, it&#8217;s expected that the committee may produce a short report containing recommendations to the BBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The MPs&#8217; hearing will be part of the committee&#8217;s State of Play inquiry, where members of the public&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-774405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}