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Hadn’t seen it mentioned in the thread yet, but just to confirm that the UK has been drawn to perform in the 1st Half of the Grand Final on Saturday.

As for the rest of the Big 5:

Germany: 1st Half
France: 2nd Half
Italy & Spain: Producer’s Choice

Source: eurovision.tv 

Ugh. Producer’s Choice is such an ugly and meaningless concept and this draw has immediately proved it IMO. It means nothing that Italy and Spain have drawn Producer’s Choice.

I even double checked that link in case you’d put the apostrophe in the wrong place, but they do actually style it “Producer’s” (singular) choice. That makes it an even worse idea than I had previously thought (“Producers’ Choice” plural) because it implies the whole decision rests on one producer’s whim.

It’s just confusing and bland and means the draw has no real bearing on when a large percentage of the acts perform. Why even bother? Just let this lone producer pick the whole running order and give up any pretence