France: France Télévision sticks with 'Eurovision France: C’est vous qui décidez' as the Eurovision 2023 selection format
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The French broadcaster, France Televisions, has shed more light on how the country will be selecting their Eurovision 2023 representative.
France Televisions have shared some details for their 2022-2023 television season plans, among which the Eurovision Song Contest and Junior Eurovision preparations.
Regarding the adults' contest the channel will be selecting their representative via the format of 'Eurovision France: C’est vous qui décidez', while the announcements on Junior Eurovision 2022 preparations will be unveiled in a few weeks.
France 2 will be airing 'Eurovision France: C’est vous qui décidez' marking the show's 3rd edition. The first one took place in 2021 and gave France the impressive 2nd place in the final with Barbara Pravi singing in Rotterdam 'Voila'.
More details on the regulations and the deadlines of submissions are expected to be announced over the following weeks.
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.
In 2021 Barbara Pravi won the national final with her song 'Voila' and defended the French colors in Rotterdam performing in the Grand final on May 22, 2021. The French hopeful almost won the competition finishing 2nd behind Italy's Maneskin with 499 points i the overall score.
Last year, Alvan & Ahez won the national final and represented the nation with their song 'Fulenn' which came 24th in the final with a overall score of 17 points.
News Source: France Télévision
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