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UK: Dan Shipton will not stage Olly Alexander’s Eurovision entry – Who’s taking over?

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Dan Shipton will not be directing the stage performance of the United Kingdom’s entry in the 68th Eurovision Song Contest, as was disclosed on The Euro Trip Podcast.

Shipton served as the director of the British entries from 2015 to 2018. He also did so in 2022, the year Sam Ryder’s “Spaceman” came in second. In addition, he took overall creative supervision of the Competition in 2023 when the UK hosted on behalf of Ukraine.

The BBC’s executive producer for the competition, Lee Smithurst, told Euro Trip that Dan Shipton would not be in charge of the stage performance because Olly Alexander already had his own team.

Dan is not going to be doing the staging because Olly has his own team.

It’s important that he has his own team around him for Eurovision.


As for Olly Alexander, he added:

The good thing is that Olly’s such a massive fan of Eurovision – he does know it inside out. You don’t need to tell Olly you can only have six people on stage, or that your song can’t be more than three minutes long.

Who is going to stage Olly Alexander’s Eurovision entry?

According to Lee Smithurst, the British entry is being directed by Theo Adams, who the British representative has been collaborating with for a number of years.

For Olly and Theo to be working together already and thinking about ideas is great because they’re a team and they trust each other. They’re going to come up with something great.

Olly Alexander and Lee Smithurst collaborated on a number of noteworthy projects, the most prominent of which being Alexander’s world tour and duet with Elton John at the 2021 BRIT Awards.

 

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Source: The Euro Trip 

United Kingdom: BBC One will broadcast all Eurovision 2024 shows!

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The BBC recently announced that the UK will compete in the 68th Eurovision Song Contest, which will take place in Malmö, Sweden, in May 2024.

At the same time, it was announced that the two semi-finals of Eurovision 2024 as well as the grand final will all be broadcasted on BBC One, as was the case in 2023 when the country hosted the competition on behalf of Ukraine. The broadcaster’s decision to broadcast the contest once more on its top-rated and most popular channel is a sign of a significant shift in the latter’s perspective on the competition.

The record-breaking high television ratings from the competition last year, which reached 55% and 29.8 million people, had an important impact in this choice.

In addition, it was revealed that Lee Smithurst, executive producer for BBC Studios, and Will Wilkin, executive director for BBC Music, had spent the summer conducting a search for the UK’s upcoming participation in the Eurovision song contest.

This year, the United Kingdom was represented by Mae Muller with the song “I wrote a song”, finishing in 25th place with 24 points. Will the United Kingdom be able to achieve a higher position in Malmö ?

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Source: Wiwibloggs 

United Kingdom: BBC and TaP reject Years & Years in favour of Sam Ryder!

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It has been reported in the British media that the band  Years & Years  were rejected by the BBC and TaP Music for Eurovision 2022, in favor of Sam Ryder .

The Mail on Sunday reports that Olly Alexander , now the sole permanent member of the popular electro-pop project Years & Years, proposed himself to represent the United Kingdom in Turin, but was unable to do so due to his contract with Polydor and the requirement for the selected artist to be a member of TaP Music.

The Mail article says, the only reassuring thing is that Olly has been told that he has a good chance of being selected if he puts his name forward next year if the rules change.

Olly made some tweets for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, so he’s clearly a fan and would certainly be a popular and credible choice for the 2023 contest if he were to be selected successfully.

Sam Ryder was selected in February to represent the United Kingdom at Eurovision 2022 with “Space Man” .

The United Kingdom finished second in the grand final this year with 466 points. Making it the country’s highest score in the Eurovision Song Contest.

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