NBC's idolatry: Eurovision comes to your television

True, it sounds like the home network of our favorite Kazakhstani journo, Borat, but let’s not hold that against Eurovision.

Typically, we experience Eurovision only when we’ve had too many Bahama Mamas (something to do with the grenadine, but we digress), but soon you will experience it on the “We’ll try anything to stop American Idol” Peacock network later this year.

The 50-year-old European show “helped launch the careers of Celine Dion and ABBA,” according to the AP,

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