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France: Head of Delegation resigned

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Eurovision 2020 will find many countries with new delegation chiefs, after Steven Clerima, head of the French delegation in the contest, announced his resignation.

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Steven Clerima has been a member of France’s Eurovision delegations for the past four years. Ever since then, Amir with “J’ai cherché” has rekindled French interest in the competition. He took over as head of delegation last year after succeeding Edoardo Grassi. He was in fact the Head of Delegation of France to Eurovision 2019 and Junior Eurovision 2018 and 2019.

This change comes at a time when there are reports in the French press about changing the country’s approach to public television in how to opt in, with the most likely scenarios being direct assignment or a small national final with 3 or 4 songs.

France: Direct assignment should not be considered as given

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Last week, French media reported that the country would choose its next representative in the Eurovision song contest. This meant that Destination Eurovision was not going to take place a third time. Ultimately, this seems to be a misunderstanding of the term “direct assignment”, since France 2 has not yet decided on Bilal’s successor, not even ruling out a national final with 3 or 4 candidates.

French television already receives songs for Eurovision 2020 but with the significant difference that for the first time since 2004 it has received entries from foreign composers as well. What is expected is that they will either become a national final with 3 or 4 candidates or will be selected by direct assignment, as was the case in 2016 and 2017 with positive results.

Bilal Hassani was the winner of the last Destination Eurovision and France’s representative at Eurovision 2019. He performed “Roi” on the stage of Tel Aviv and took 16th place with 105 points.

 

France: Good bye “Eurovision destination”

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The French public broadcaster, France Televisions, confirmed recently before its intention not to host the “Destination Eurovision” show in 2020, which has been used for the last two years to mark the French representative at Eurovision. Instead, France’s choice of Rotterdam will be directly assigned this year.

According to information and sources from Le Parisien, including Alexandra Redde-Amiel, head of entertainment at France Télévisions, France 2 will not renew the Eurovision Destination format. At least two reasons seem to have led to this choice.

The reasons

First, Destination Eurovision had very low viewing rates compared to contest. Both in the process of appointing the French representative and especially in comparison to Eurovision itself, the TV shares were in the dark. In particular, the televised final of its national selection was three times smaller than the May 18 final in Tel Aviv.

The second reason is, according to Alexandra Redde-Amiel, the desire of French television to have complete control over the choice of artist to compete in Rotterdam in May.

“We want to control the process more, through direct outsourcing. That is what Spain and England will do this year. We will develop our strengths differently. We are thinking about several options. By changing our process, we hope to reach the Top 5 in 2020”

The process

The French public broadcaster has asked several French composers, as well as foreign producers for the first time, to submit their proposals on the song and artist that may represent France in the 65th edition of Eurovision.

Finally, according to the article, the representative of France and the song contesting will be formally presented in a special TV show broadcast in France 2. Although no details have been provided, it is very likely that such a presentation will held before the meeting of the Heads of Missions in mid-March 2020.

Bilal Hassani was the winner of the last Destination Eurovision and France’s representative at Eurovision 2019. He performed “Roi” on the stage of Tel Aviv and took 16th place with 105 points.

Junior Eurovision 2019: What are the favorites to win?

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Only some hours  left for the Junior Eurovision 2019 final. Tomorrow, November 24 in Glivice, Poland, 19 songs will compete for the victory. After defining the order of appearance of the songs, it’s time to take a look at the big favorites.

The final result of Junior Eurovision will also be determined this year by a 50% vote of the jury and 50% of the public vote. The public can continuing voting online till tomorrow at 15:59 CET time. Of the 19 songs the following 4 seem to have stood out:

  • Poland

Last year’s winner and host of this year’s Junior Eurovision has already garnered many views. The official video has 3.8 million views, and the first rehearsal video is already close to 200,000. The singer’s official channel reaches 1.3 million and TVP’s channel reaches 1.4 million! It is expected that there will be great interest in Poland for the contest, but it is a strong song anyway. If that is supported by the jury, it is possible to see a second victory in a row for Poland. In audience voting, it will probably be in the top three if not first.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okG6yNKaS1g

 

  • France

The country that returned dynamically last year after winning the runner-up looks determined to continue the good run. The video on the singer’s official channel reached 1.3 million views, while JESC’s official channel is approaching 1 million. The first rehearsal also became quite popular with 120,000 views. France has not won the competition so far.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWT_U6mEadQ

  • Spain

Spain have been abstaining from the competition for many years, but it seems that it wants to return dynamically this year. The video on the singer’s channel has 700,000 views, while the official JESC channel also reaches close to 700,000. The first rehearsal seems to stand out with nearly 120,000 views already. After Spain’s 2004 win, could we see its second win this year?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRj0dVWvHBg

  • Armenia

With an uptempo song, Armenia reached 900,000 views on the official JESC channel, while its first rehearsal also went well with 80,000 views. After winning 2010, the country has been close to winning several times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfUKHyFIX0s

Who will the winner be?

The above countries are almost certain to be in the top ten (possibly in the top five) of the public vote. The unexpected factor is the vote of the jury. Bearing in mind the results of the last two years that the system has been the same this year, it seems that the committees pay great attention to the vocal abilities of the singers as well as to the final visual spectacle.

You can enjoy the Junior Eurovision 2019 contest through the official channel on Sunday, November 24 at 16:00CET time.

France: Listen to Carla’s song for Junior Eurovision 2019

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France’s public broadcaster , France 2, has confirmed rumors that it wanted the first winner of The Voice Kids, Carla, to represent the country at Junior Eurovision 2019. The song will compete in Glivice, Poland, on the 24th. November, it’s called Bim Bam Toi.

Carla is now 16 years old and is quite popular in her home country. In 2014, at the age of just 11, she became the winner of The Voice Kids in France. Then, after the release of her first album, she lends her voice to French compilation of many songs in Disney movies. Along with other famous children in the country, Unicef ​​France creates Kids United, which aims to sing the most beautiful songs that celebrate love and peace.

France 2 received triple entries after last year’s debut in the competition and second place in Minsk.

https://youtu.be/pWT_U6mEadQ

France: With a national final for Eurovision 2020

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In an interview with a local media outlet, France’s Public Channel Entertainment Director Alexandra Redde-Amiel confirmed that France’s next entry will be selected for another year through a national final.

As she stated, while discussions have begun and they have agreed that they are certain of a national final, what is left now is to see if they will follow the same format and name as they did last year. What is important for the channel right now is the country’s participation in the Junior Eurovision event in Poland next November.

[…] We think a lot. We are open to everything, we put all the questions on the table. What is certain is that the show will return. In what form and by what name, it has not yet been decided. […]

(Alexandra Redde-Amiel, Director of Entertainment,France Televisions)

France has been selecting its representative for the last two years through the national final Eurovision Destination. From the first year, the final has been loved by many friends of the competition, but also by the French public, as it is the most popular show of the night.

The second version of the Eurovision Destination was won by Bilal Hasani with the song “Roi”, which traveled to Israel for the sake of France and finished 16th in the Grand Final.