France: National selection "Eurovision France, c'est vous qui decidez" to be held in January

France: National selection
Sunday, 22 November 2020

  • The French national broadcaster, France Televisions, has made public that the national selection show "Eurovision France, c'est vous qui decidez", through which the nation will determine its Eurovision 2021 representative, will be held in January. 

    The clock is ticking and as we are moving into the national selection period for next year's contest the broadcasters are unveiling their timeline regarding their ESC 2021 selections. 

    Following "Déstination Eurovision" as the country's national selection format,  this  year the French broadcaster went internal and selected Tom Leeb to represent the country in a contest that was eventually cancelled due to the covid-19 pandemic. Now  France Télévision opts for a new national selection to select its hopeful for the next Eurovision Song Contest. Namely the national selection show " Eurovision France, c'est vous qui decidez" (Eurovision France; It's you who decides) will determine next year's representative. 

    France Television has announced that the national selection show will hit our screens in January while the presentation will be a work of tv commentator and presenter , Stephane Bern. The 2021 national selection will see a total of 12 participants battle for the ticket to Rotterdam and it will bring back the public vote in determining the nation's representative. 

     

    France in Eurovision 


    France is  one of the seven countries that had its first participation back in 1956. Since then the country has won the contest 5 times. Last time was in 1977, with Marie Myriam and her song L’oiseau et l’enfant. The last two years, however,  seems to be an increasing interest for the contest .

    Destination Eurovision  was used for the first time as the country’s national selection format in 2018, including two recorded semi final shows and a live grand final. 2018 was the first time France held a nationa final since 2014. National final 2018 winners were the duo Madame Monsieur who represented France in Lisbon with their entry “Mercy” which finished 13th.

    In 2019 Bilal Hassani won the second edition of Destination Eurovision 2019 and defended the French colours in Tel Aviv with his entry Roi which came 16th in the Grand final.

    After that France Televisions went internal selecting Tom Leeb to represent the country in Rotterdam last May. Unfortunately his ESC 2020 journey never took place as the covid-19 pandemic caused the cancellation of this year's edition. 

     

    Source: Eurovoix