Netflix has bought rhe rights to show 2019’s Eurovision Song Contest – more popularly know as Melodifestival here in Sweden, and even more colloquially as ”Mello” – SvD reported this afternoon. True, this news item was pretty buried under more important news like Iran taking a British-flagged cargo boat hostage in the Strait of Hormuz, but anyone that has lived in Sweden during the almost interminable run-up and final show knows that this, for some, is huge. According to SVT (https://blogg.svt.se/melodifestivalen) about 4.5 million people in Sweden alone saw the final. That’s very nearly half the population here folks. Maybe this news shouldn’t have been so buried after all (just kidding).
Netflix has also bought the rights to air the 2020 show in the Netherlands (after it has aired here in Europe that is), and – wait for it – is even planning an American version.