For full TV listings for the week, see thetimes.co.uk/tvplannerSaturday’s TV, by Ben DowellSponsoredEurovision Song Contest 2021BBC1, 8pmEmbers can be dying or they can suddenly fan into life-giving heat. So it is perhaps appropriate that Embers is also the title of this year’s British entry for the 65th Eurovision competition, sung by the singer-songwriter James Newman. Can the 35-year-old’s optimistic and inoffensive piece of synthetic dance-pop restore some pride to what has been a fairly disastrous Eurovision for us Brits of late? Given the verdict of our own rock critic Will Hodgkinson, I wouldn’t hold your breath. “Britain’s attempt to win Eurovision with a song that sounds like half the hits that seeped out of the radio last year as you tried

Source: The Times May 21, 2021 23:00 UTC