UK – The BBC has confirmed that its national selection programme, Eurovision: You Decide, has been dumped for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest and an exciting new partnership with the record company BMG will help select the UK’s representative instead.
The BBC says that BMG share the vision of “selecting a song with broad international appeal and securing an artist who embodies the spirit and values of the Eurovision Song Contest.”
Do you think this is a good approach for the UK?
The Eurovision Times 
https://mobile.twitter.com/EurovisionBudd1/status/1178642140425019392
Offtopic (I’m 32 today) same birthday than Giroud lol
Alles Gute zum Geburtstag, Morgan. :)
Danke!
First medal for Germany in Doha, bronze for Geza Felicitas Krause in 3000 m steeplechase…
with incubents Diniz and Bosse out, while Lavillenie did not even qualify, we’ll only get one medal: Kevin Mayer. Maybe Mélina Robert-Michon can grab one too.
In 110 hurdless no chance iyo?
hm maybe bronze for Martinot-Lagarde but the competition seems too strong!
Also Quentin Bigot was 4th in London in 2017 world champs in hammer.. So Who knows…
It’s ok, we’re in a very slow slope after the rather good Olympics (6 medals)
GEK is among my favourite German athletes. She’s intelligent, eloquent (I am sucker for good use of language) and a fighter. :)
Where is she from originally?
I didn’t find anything about it.
I think Christin Hussong will take medal in javelin.
Of course La Hussong will grab a medal. :)
GFK is from Dillenburg in Hesse.
Felicitas spunds spanish. :)
I guess that her parents are well educated. :)
I think they are from Ecuador…
What a competition was in women high jump.. Fantastic… Lasitskene was so close to reach 2.08 and equal Blanka Vlašić’s result who is the closest to Stefka Kostadinova’ s world record – 2.09.. 18 years old Ukrainian was second with 2.04, reaching her personal best twice… :)
High jump was great indeed. G’night Marko. :)
:-*
OMG Lyu Huihui 65.06, Hussong 65.05!!! :O
And then an Australian climax. :)
Gosh, as always in javelin, 5th and 6th series and BOOM… Im a bit sad for Huihui Lyu in the end, I saw sadness on her face.. :( The last world champs she lost gold in the 6th series.. This year she took everything before this WC..
Hui is a colloquial term for ‘great!’ in German. :)
Happy birthday!!!
Thanks! :)
Happy birthday, Morgan.
Thank you, dear
Parabéns, Morgan! I will be raising glass for you during dinner. :)
Obrigado! I will have melted cheese dinner!
De nada. Enjoy!
*my glass
Hrónia Pollá!!!
Thx!
Joyeux anniversaire, mon ami!
Merci !
Happy Birthday! Wonderkid’s tactics didn’t work this time. They had to bow to the Ethiopians.
it wasn’t THAT Norwegian even though I was disappointed! 400m hurdles! WARHOLM <3
I love Muktar Edris, so Im glad He won.. :)
Too much African audience in Doha… Today Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia took golds.. :)
Yes, i realised it afterwards. :P
Tribute to Golden Boy:
he’s incredibly hot
I can’t believe Samba didn’t win! :'(
Whole year the best in Diamond league and now in Doha on his ground only bronze… GRRRRRRRR….
Now Mutaz Essa Barshim has to take gold in high jump..
Or Ghazal from Syria..
But Karsten won the Diamond League final with a ER of 46.92
I cant stand that New RULE, that, you win whole Diamond league if you win the last race.. Earlier was more logical…
Yeah but i suppose they wanted to make the finals exciting.
it makes no sense: the WC is for the “one race to win it all”, the Diamond Meague is for “most regular through the season”
Ughhh Warholm…It should be illegal to be this attractive !
Happy birthday Morgan! :)
Merci Marko
What did I tell you, France will get medals in 110 hurdless and hammer throw! :D :)
I did hope for PML but Bigot is someone I thought wouldnt show up on the night and he did! Now gold for Mayer and it’s a decent championship after all even though Melina Robert Michon should hope for a medal too
Yes she can, but it Will be so difficult with 2 Cubans in form, and Sandra Petković who is hungary for victory this year… :)
if Bigot can beat ONE of the Poles… ;)
Only 4 years older than me :P HappyB Birthday ! :D
Only ahah
Aren’t you 30?
Nope. I am 28. Back in the days of esctoday it had asked for a date of birth somewhere in the profile making process and by accident I scrolled wrong had put the wrong year of birth. Took me some time to realize and in the end I never fixed it. I was born on the 17th of July 1991.
Tonight Im all for the Norwegian wonderboy
Happy Birthday Morgan!!
Sorry for the recent radio silence, on a much needed holiday after a few hard weeks. Had 5 days in Tbilisi and fell in love with Georgia, and now just arrived in Armenia to check out Yerevan. 2 more Eurovision countries ticked off the list!
Enjoy your break! and thank you for the wishes :)
😘💕
Have you ever been to Serbia? :)
Sto lat! Wszystkiego najlepszego, Morgan!
Dziękuję!
Nearly 10 years absence and 2 Turkish songs are still in most watched list… Stupid TRT should see this! They literally stole our music!!!
Indeed. Esc fans have become nostalgic of Turkish esc entries.
Happy birthday dear Morgan !!!
Thank you! :)
Flip flop William FTW🤣
Ewww!If they want to destroy esc then William is the perfect candidate
Bon anniversaire :) Jusqu’à cent ans et plus comme on dit ici 😊
after all the world record is a French lady :o merci Michos :)
Ha ha true :)
Belgium representative will be revealed 21:50 CET tonight.
So it is happening!
Oscar and the Wolf rumours in some discussion boards right now.
that I like
They literally found the only day I cannot follow anything :P Anyway if rumours prove to be true I won’t miss much.
This sums up my interest about politics🤣
Facebook live video link for Belgium’s Artist presentation:
https://www.facebook.com/een/?ref=nf&hc_ref=ARRSIg4R2gNBmn_k63CaJcHAwsTZiBoCcAqF2vIKLJLbRu1SgUMqC0uPo1QNi9Wlp-c
And tonight I’m all Swedish, with Mondo <3 (Armand, his French real name :p)
apparently my bf likes Valentin Lavillenie, the younger brother to our star Renaud ;)
Indeed he’s very cute like the Italian guy but poor Valentine has to always be reminded he’s no match to his big brother. Gutted Duplantis didn’t win after Polish boy got 3rd place.
Kendricks is nice too, hot ass and cute blonde features! but Duplantis a born star of pole vault and incredibly nice besides being adorable and hot
You know my taste. It’s Piotr Lisek for me. The Italian guy is hot too. I bet Toggie has set his eyes on him. :P
He is a lovely man but … surprise surprise … I am team Kendricks. If I had to rank all 12 pole voters we saw tonight, Duplantis and the Kendricks sidekick would come last.
Team Kendricks? I never would of thought.
I am full of surprises. I like Mr. Lisek too. :)
we’re total opposite guyswise
Normally I am not into blondes but I find Mr. Kendricks very appealing. Great facial structure and beautiful eyes.
Ah, there has been a birthday boy in da house. Many happy returns, Morgan, a bit late I’m afraid 😃
Kiitos!
Speaking of Belgium, who else is loving what’s going on at Real Madrid? :p
Only 2:2 in the end… Real will make its way through this group in any case despite their weak efforts…
with an offside goal for Real of course, ridiculous! however, that pole vault competition is a beauty and both Duplantis and Kendricks have amazing looking buttocks <3
Of course, they always have luck…
Bayern with a tough game today against Tottenham… I wonder if they stand any chance…
Against English and Spanish teams, German teams can’t do anything in the last few years…
well Tottenham is having a disastruous season so far, so I’m not very hopeful for our Bayern matches and hope we can squeeze out of the group! we were up 0-2 at Olympiakos and Arsenal and both times we bottled it for 2-2 :/
1:1 atm, we will see…
good news: we’re losing to Bayern at home to the same score we lost at home to Barça last season in group stage! :p
and then we blew out
Busy couple of days, just saw the Jon Ola Sand news…
History will be kind to him I think. He’s been in charge of a huge shift in the mindset surrounding the contest that, there’s no other way of thinking about it – saved the contest. ESC was heading nowhere in the mid-late 2000s but the intro of the juries, the televote-jury cote splitting since 2016, and the modernization of the contest technology and staging wise has made it an incredibly better product.
There’s no doubts he’s had mistakes – the mysterious televoting for Azerbaijan in the early 2010s, the shady introduction of Australia in the contest, the producer-made draw, the continuous confusion about the jury criteria, and the televoting announcement in 2019. Above all else, I think he let the Bjorkman influence in the contest go too far, and it has effected some of the National Finals and entries we’ve seen the last 2-3 years.
But overall I’m appreciative of what he’s done and the work he’s obviously put in. Hopefully they get the replacement decision right.
I fully agree. He saved this competion. Actually not just changed, he turned the old tired lady into shining crown jewel of EBU. Still, it’s also time for ESC to change again, as it’s has been turning into a bit of a bore lately. Ola’s successor should be bold enough to shake a things a bit to give every edition a more personal flavor. Big five should be ripped off their privilages, international juries abandoned and jury and televotes should be presented combined instead of this uncomprhensible porridge they have cooked up to begin with.
Some entertainment for those who hasn’t got anything else to do. But just to warn you, it is rather gruesome and absolutely not politically correct. Very ironic though: https://twomanynotes.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/snif-white.pdf
Isn’t she evil? Like a character from a bad soap opera:
She’s a despicable lady, one of those who kick away the ladder once she has climbed to the top.Yuck!
I watched an interview with a hateful Conservative nutcase today. Addressing the Irish border issue he kept babbling about ‘bilateral arrangements between sovereign national states’ and ‘the EU getting in the way when it comes to finding a solution’. I wish that he’s missing the days of empire when London could simply tell the Irish what they had to do.
The brighest and the best wont even pass outside what smug bigoted people like her want to make out of the UK. She is despicable.
I think their plan is to end free movement from the EU and bring young talent from various countries of the world(Asia f,i) on a merits-based system.
When you invest into short sighted racism to win elections you cultivate a general such feeling. Their rabid base may as well see that as foreigners taking the places of their children at unis or something. And still that without a guarantee that those bright minds will come.
I read on wikipedia: “Patel was born in London to a Ugandan-Indian family.”
And then I read that she is strongly anti-immigrant.
WTF?! :o
It depends how you see that. Given her parents settled themselves in UK, whilst Uganda was still a British colony technically they are not considered immigrants, but British subjects. Having said that, I do not of course approve her political stance on immigration.
In either case she comes from a social group that suffered a lot from discrimination. She should endorse policies exactly the opposite to what she currently promotes. She is an utter disgrace.
She is not promoting discrimination, but a different immigration system because she disagrees with the free movement of people.
I don’t know if she is promoting discrimination. What I say is that coming from such a social and ethnic background, it’s outrageous to have that political stance.
That actually reminds me of a neighbour of mine who is of Albanian decent and used to be a Golden Dawn sympathizer :( …Sigh.
It’s Hooverphonic for Belgium!
Yeah! It’s a promising choice. Tribute to Razvan’s ETSC entry:
Belgium has been trying really hard
Additional info: The new lead singer Luka Cruysberghs won the 5th edition of The Voice of Flanders competing in the team of Hooverphonic leader Alex Callier and in April 2018 was introduced as the new vocalist of the band, appearing on Looking for Stars album.
Alex Callier was also co-writer of Belgian Eurovision 2018 entry A Matter of Time.
Great news! Belgium learned from its past mistakes and now relies on an established act. My favourite, then with singer Geike Arnaert:
Veel geluk, België!
Big names don’t guarrantee good results but at least, i think we’ll get a decent song.
Kate Ryan *cough*…Cascada *cough*
This song has been very popular in my playlist for some years. <3
Their early works are in the vein of Portishead and Massive Attack, which are another bands I like. That’s lovely you’ve got the same affinity to this song. It’s a shame they never made it big here in Germany.
They made it big here in my house and that’s enough for me. :)
😄
😲 Strong start of the 2020 edition.
Interesting choice. I will be awaiting the song though, because there have been too many good artists who entered the contest, and in the end they just came up with a typical ESC banger. Hopefully it will not be the case this time.
I think it won’t be a typical esc song but that doesn’t mean it will work live. You’re right. Cautious optimism is the best approach.
*faints*
Bravo Amel Tuka, silver for Bosnia and Herzegovina in 800 m!!! :)
Is it the first track and field medal for BiH?
He took bronze in Beijing 2015.. :)
He is very serious athlete now, two WC medals… :)
He is from Kakanj town.. :)
Thanks. :)
I drove through Kakanj in 2015 when I visited the Franciscan Monastery in Kraljeva Sutjeska on my way from Sarajevo to Tuzla. :)
I have a wish to visit that monastery, I visited Fojnica Franciscan monastery which is close..
Bobovac medieval town, The capital of Medieval Bosnia is close to Kraljeva Sutjeska, it is so interesting.. Id love to see it. I like Bogumils.. :D
I had planned to visit Bobovac too but it was a rainy day. :(
The Bogumils are very interesting. I love their gravestones, which I saw in Radimlja near Stolac and in Blidinje Natural Park. I first heard of the Bogumils when I read Umberto Eco’s ‘Il nome della rosa’ 30 years ago.
Hmmm interesting choice by Belgium!
First off the mark, Belgium really ups the ante of ESC2020 picks with the Hooverphonics. I hope for something like “Badaboom”:
Very interesting choice for Belgium. I love this type of music so I’m excited to see what they can come up with.
Woooow Bayern destroyed Spurs 7-2 IN London. Poch out and off to Man U? ALso kudos to Club Bruges drawing at Real.
Wow. I never expected THAT. This is huge news honestly. HUGE. Hooverphonic doing esc ? Unthinkable !