Yesterday we met the first three performers that attended the Eurovision workshop set up by German broadcaster NDR in Cologne last week. The end goal for those attending the workshop is to represent Germany at the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest. Between six and ten of the performers will earn a place on the German 2019 National Selection show 'Unser Lied für Tel Aviv' to air early next year. Today we have another three singers to introduce you to - Diana N. Schneider, Aly Ryan

German broadcaster NDR confirmed earlier this year that their plan for Eurovision 2019 would follow the same process of this years selection which ultimately resulted in Michael Schulte representing Germany in Lisbon with the emotional 'You Let Me Walk Alone' which found success - finishing 4th place with 340 points. Last week, fifteen singers and performers traveled to Cologne to attend a five day Eurovision workshop. Representatives from NDR - Thomas Schrieber and Christoph

Tonight the start of X Factor Malta, and in turn the start to find Malta's next Eurovision act began, as the first episode of X Factor Malta aired on TVM. In a bold new direction for the small nation to take, the winner of X Factor Malta will not only win the inaugural series, but be the act who will go on to represent Malta in Tel Aviv at Eurovision 2019, it also features Eurovision 2002 runner up Ira Losco on the judging panel. In tonights debut show, we saw eight acts adva

Romania seem already forward thinking in their plans for the 2019 Eurovision season. According to local reports in the Romanian press, the national broadcaster TVR is planning to host a multi- city national selection process. Despite not qualifying this year, it would seem that this has not put off TVR from following the same route, and continue to use the multi-city selection process. The paper, Monitoural de Sucaeva has already reported that the city of Sucaeva has alrea

RTVE have already confirmed that popular Spanish singing competition Operación Triunfo is going to be used again this year as the national selection process for Spain's Eurovision representative and now we have even more details of how the special 'Eurovision Gala' is going to work. In the press release, RTVE have confirmed that the selection show will be aired in January 2019, how the show is going to work and reveals plans for an open invitation to songwriters to submit son

Today, the Director General of HRT has confirmed that Dora shall be returning as the format to select Croatia's Eurovision Song Contest entry for 2019. Last week, Croatia confirmed they will be competed in Eurovision for the fourth successive year, after a break of two years, and for the first time since they returned to the contest, will be using a national selection final to select their song, and the popular old format of Dora. This comes after a shake up in programming cu

NRK, the state broadcaster for Norway, has confirmed that the date for Norwegian National Selection 'Melodi Grand Prix' is March 2nd 2019. The National Final, which has been used as the selection process for Norway's Eurovision representative since 2003, see's 10 artists perform their potential entries live on Television before an international jury selects a number of the songs to progress to a Super Final. In this years competition, the super final was split into a silver r

Operación Triunfo 2018 Gala 1 was broadcast last night. Sixteen contestants that reached the academy after surviving many auditions and last weeks Gala 0, gave their first performance. The first week in the Operación Triunfo academy is behind us and our 16 contestants performed on Gala 1 last night. We have many reasons to be excited! The 16 contestants opened the show all together with the song „This is me“, a soundtrack from the musical „The Grand Showman“. After the openin

Georgian national broadcaster GPB has confirmed today that they will be using TV show "Georgian Idol" (ჩვენ ვარსკვლავები ვართ) as their selection process for the country's 2019 Eurovision representative. Production group "Nova Productions" will be producing the show which will start airing in January 2019. According to plans by MegaShow's Giorgi Khaburdzania and Nova's Demna Japaridze, casting will take place across Georgia over the next few months before 10 contestants will

It was recently revealed that the preparations for Melodifestivalen 2019 were in full swing. SVT had publically announced the dates, and cities for next years national final season. It has also been revealed that the open period for song submissions has also recently been closed. According to the website Scandipop a figure of 2295 songs have been submitted to SVT for Melodifestivalen 2019. Although not officially confirmed by the national broadcaster, this figure would sugg