France: France 2 sheds more light on the national selection “Eurovision : C’est vous qui décidez!”

France: France 2 sheds more light on the national selection “Eurovision : C’est vous qui décidez!”
Tuesday, 08 December 2020

  • The Franch national broadcaster, France 2, has shed some more light on the upcoming French national selection "Eurovision : C’est vous qui décidez!” that will detemine the country's Eurovision 2021 hopeful. 

    According to French broadcaster's release regarding its future plan of programs, focusing on the dates from December 26th to January 1st, we see a new tv program called “Pastille Eurovision”  scheduled for the weekdays. Each short in duration show is combnined with a name of an artist, indicating that the presentation of national selection acts and songs will hit the screens in this way. The first five names we see are :

    • Monday, 28th December : Casanova
    • Tuesday, 29th December : Philippine
    • Wednesday, 30th December : LMX
    • Thursday, 31st December : Ali
    • Friday, 1st January : Barbara Pravi

    Taking a closer look on these first names we see Philipinne who took part in the The Voice 2016  and was eliminated during the first live show, while Casanova finished third in the 2018 season under Team Mika. Ali is a rapper while Barbara Pravi penned with Igit the two French JESC 2019 and 2020 songs “Bim Bam Toi” and “J’imagine” with the last one bringing the trophy home. 

     

    The Hosts

    Le Parisien, has reported that Stéphane Bern and Laurence Boccolini will co-host the upcoming Frech national selection.

    The first host, Stéphane Bern, is no stranger to the the French Eurovision family as he has commented the Eurovision final in 2010 and from 2015 each year.

    Laurence Boccolini, maybe new on board regarding the Eurovision community, but is well known among the French viewers. Besides hosting TV games,  and standing out while hosting the French version of “The Weakest Link”, she participated in the first season of France’s Masked Singer which eventually she won!

    After the game 'Money Drop" in 2017,  she co-presented with Christophe Dechavanne on the set in South Africa the reality "I am a celebrity, get me out of there". This summer she decided to look elsewhere. In September, it was on France 2 that viewers watched her animating the old game played by Patrick Sabatier Password  in the morning. Then, since November 2, she is at the head of “One word can hide another”, on the same square.

     

    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. 

     

    News Source: ESCXtra/Le Parisien

    Image: RTL.fr