production team reveal
 

https://eurovision.tv/story/bbc-reve...liverpool-2023

BBC Studios Entertainment & Music, the production company behind multi award winning shows and events such as Strictly Come Dancing, Glastonbury and Later…with Jools, will deliver the three live shows for host broadcaster BBC. They have assembled this elite team who bring a wealth of live experience to lead the production of this milestone event in British broadcasting.

Directing the Semi-Finals and Grand Final are a trio of hugely experienced Multi Camera Directors. They are Nikki Parsons, Richard Valentine and Ollie Bartlett.

Nikki Parsons will be lead director on the Grand Final. Since 2006 Nikki has been Series Director of the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing (the UK version of Dancing With The Stars), and has huge expertise in directing live entertainment shows in UK and US. Nikki has directed the BAFTA Film and TV Awards, Britain’s Got Talent, Dancing on Ice, So You Think You Can Dance US, Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards US, The Hip Hop Nutcracker (Disney +), and The MTV Asia Awards. She was also one of the BBC’s directors for the coverage of both Queen Elizabeth II’s and the Duke of Edinburgh’s funerals.

Richard Valentine is a BAFTA and Royal Television Society award winning Multi Camera director whose credits include Concert for Ukraine, Global Citizen London, One Love Manchester, Ariana Grande at the BBC, Harry Styles at the BBC, The Sound of Music Live, The Royal Variety Performance, The Olympic Torch Concert and Live 8. Richard has also worked with Beyoncé, Foo Fighters and Duran Duran.

Meanwhile Ollie Bartlett recently worked on Glastonbury, A Secret Night with Kylie Minogue, Soccer Aid, The Big Night of Musicals, The National Lottery’s New Year’s Eve Big Bash, Dance Monsters (Netflix) and The GRM Awards. Ollie was also one of the BBC’s directors on the coverage of Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral.

BBC Studios have also appointed Dan Shipton as Lead Creative Director for the Eurovision Song Contest 2023. Dan will oversee various creative elements of the shows including the interval acts and the Flag Parade working collaboratively with German Nenov who has been appointed by Ukrainian broadcaster UA:PBC as their Creative Director.


Dan has huge expertise as a Creative Director of many major events, tours and performances. Recent credits include Little Mix: The Confetti Tour, Westlife: The Wildest Dreams Tour, Ava Max (European promotional campaign including EMAs performance), and Jurassic World Live Tour. Along with Marvin Dietmann he has also been the Creative Director of a number of Eurovision Song Contest performances including Sam Ryder in 2022.

Music Director for the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 will be Kojo Samuel. Kojo will oversee the music production and arrangements on the show’s interval acts and the Flag Parade. Kojo has recently worked with multiple artists including Stormzy’s iconic Glastonbury set, Jess Glynne, Rudimental, Rita Ora, AJ Tracey and Ella Henderson. He was also the Music Executive of the 2022 Commonwealth Games Closing Ceremony.

Julio Himede takes up the role of Set Designer for the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest. Julio has designed sets for many major events and TV shows. Credits include the 64th Annual Grammy Awards, the 2018-2021 MTV Video Music Awards, the 2016-2021 MTV EMAs, Disney’s Beauty and The Beast: A 30th Celebration and the American Song Contest.

As Head of Sound, BAFTA- winner Robert Edwards, will bring his Eurovision experience to the 2023 event as he was previously Sound Supervisor for the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest in Lisbon. Other credits include The Masked Singer UK, Britain’s Got Talent, X Factor and more recently Robert mixed the world feeds for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Olympic Games in Tokyo and Beijing, and was part of the Host Broadcaster Team for the recent World Cup Coverage in Qatar.

The Lighting Designer will be Tim Routledge. Tim is a multi-award winning Lighting Designer of BAFTA and Royal Television Society Awards. His credits include high profile live events and concerts such as Stormzy’s 2019 Glastonbury Festival set, Spice Girls ‘Spice World’ UK Stadium Tour and Beyonce’s ‘Formation’ World Tour. TV credits include X Factor, Concert for Ukraine, Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony 2014, I Can See Your Voice and Big Night of Musicals.

Throughout the production, the team at BBC Studios are working closely in partnership with their Ukrainian counterparts at UA:PBC on all creative elements of the three live shows. Leading the team at UA:PBC are Oksana Skybinska (Ukrainian Eurovision Head of Delegation), Tetiana Semenova (Executive Producer of programmes and events in Ukraine including The Brain, New Year’s Night and Happy Birthday Ukraine, director group producer Game of Talents) and German Nenov (Creative Director and Music Video Director who has worked on stage performances and music videos for the likes of NK, Tina Karol and Zlata Ognevich and TV shows Game Of Talents, The Brain).

examples from Himede designs

64th Annual Grammy Awards (2022)


American Song Contest (2022)


MTV Video Music Awards (2019)

first confirmed NQ of 2023: Albania


what a mediocre weak selection of festival i kenges, filled with dull ballads


Albina & Familja Kelmendi - Duje (LOL LOL trying to copy serbia's molitva or something LOL LOL, absolutely pathetic)


Elsa Lila - Evita (ummmm tribute to argentina much LMAO by some talentless bitch)


:yuk:

Albania :yuk: :yuk: come on UK government ban their artist of performing in Liverpool

https://www.balkanweb.com/wp-content...na-656x450.png

Albina the balkan **** and her stupid family :idc: :idc:

my faves in my sig now

the literal epitome of a latin pop cliché
 

and currently hyped by the stupid eurofandom :yuk: :yuk: ugly disgusting botox woman, shakira/rosalia/camila cabello clone :idc:

EBU are threatening to expel Israel from this years contest, due to their broadcaster's independence being endangered by dictator Netanyahu and their plans of mass genocide towards the palestinians

Really is ime to permanent the troll

loving national final season so far :love:


from Eesti Laul i love Janek's House of Glass

Ulrikke her song is a grower tbh, think frozen's let it go or love me like you do but also very original


UMK first song release is a serve, no business on the dancefloor snatched my wig ladies :love:



and we have so much more fun stuff to come hopefully from Moldova, San Marino, Germany




Latvia serving us some k-pop influenced songs in their supernova, and a popular band Sudden Lights with a song in latvian which also sounds quite special ''Aija''




Serbia their line up, hmm not too bad, Luke Black in it, his first song in serbian either, own composition

example of televoters trash taste :yuk:


Belgium coming for that semi last place 0 points :umm2: :yuk: wannabe boy george with most generic song ever, and such a disgustingly weird performance :yuk:

Is the UK hosting it or not? Surely they can't do it in Ukraine. Far too dangerous.

Liverpool is hosting


aren't you paying attention or what? :mad:

There's no need to get angry. Next time I won't ask :inamood:

nothing good so far in the line up


Albania: Duje 6.5/10

Belgium: Because of You 0.0/10

Ukraine: Heart of Steel 5.5/10

Zelensky will appear as a guest in Italy's Sanremo :)

Czech Republic finalists revealed
 

Maella
Markéta Irglová
Pam Rabbit
RODAN
Vesna

Moldova serves once again a great National final line up :clap1: :clap1: Sunstroke Project, Aliona Moon, Pasha Parfeny are back too!

Moldova a poor country but with quality music scene
 

there i said it, am a fan of moldovan music scene for many many years now :love:

and this years ''etapa nationala'' is the best line up yet :love: looking forward to end of January (27th) for the live audition round :D

Any thoughts on Jony

https://youtu.be/m9ezpAUvMC8

https://youtube.com/@JONY


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Noone in the UK care about the ESC until the day it's on and certainly don't care about other countries songs until they hear them on the night

because the UK are as dull as dishwater and very lazy :idc:

no offense of course


but other countries combine very popular music festivals with ESC

Albania (Festival i Kenges) Italy (Sanremo)


Spain having recently revived Benidorm Fest as of last year


others using talent shows (Georgia - The Voice)


others naming it ''eurosong'' Belgium, Ireland


Romania/Moldova sharing names for their nf's: Selectia Nationala or Etapa Nationala while the latter also had O Melodie Pentru Europa


Portugal having Festival Da Cancao, and they don't look at whats best for ESC but what is most liked by portuguese people themselves

San Marino started with 1in360 and now rebranded it into Una Voce Per San Marino



Czech Republic will have its first major online national selection now, 5 participants while most thought just 3, but quality was too good for it to be just 3



Germany always doing ''Unser Lied'' format

and then we also have the nordics whom all have well watched national selection shows

Sweden: Melodifestivalen

Norway: Melodi Grand Prix

Finland: UMK

Denmark: Dansk Melodi Grand Prix

Iceland: Söngvakeppnin




Poland having had various NF concepts, Preselectia Krajowcze, and in 2020 opting for their junior eurovision usual selection method, Szansa Na Suczes (a popular talent show over there)


France has had NF shows like ''Destination Eurovision'' or ''C'Est Eurovision Oui Decidez'' but went internal for this year, with up and coming rising star La Zarra


Croatia have their National Final: Dora



Serbia first had Beovizija for many years (also one year called Beosong) but now due to copyright claims from their broadcaster to make Beovizija more a national festival, they call it Pezma Zu Euroviziju now, with same own language only rules as Beovizija


Montenegro call their national selection ''Montevizija''


North Macedonia go internal when they take part, but they every year also have their own music festival next to ESC, called Makfest



Ukraine having their traditional show Vidbir, for this year that was hosted from a bunker due to the war

the baltics have their national selection shows

Latvia go with ''Supernova''

Estonia with ''Eesti Laul''

Lithuania with ''Pabandom iš naujo!''




as for Malta, they have their show called ''Malta Eurovision Song Contest - short name MESC'' and in those rules it states, the winner is allowed to change his/her/their song post-nf if they're not happy with the song for ESC