Singer Barbara Pravi, representative of France at Eurovision 2021. – JOEL SAGET / AFP
- Alexandra Redde-Amiel, the head of the French delegation to Eurovision and entertainment patron of France Télé presented this Monday the program envisaged to bring the competition to life on the group’s antennas.
- The Eurovision 2021 final will be broadcast live on France 2 on May 22. The semi-finals will be broadcast on May 18 and 20 on France 4.
- Among other celebrations, an intimate documentary on Barbara Pravi will also be on the menu.
After a year of absence due to a pandemic, the 12-point waltz will resume next May. The 65th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest will take place in Rotterdam (the Netherlands). Barbara Pravi will represent France with here. Alexandra Redde-Amiel, head of delegation and patron of entertainment for France Televisions announced on Monday
during a press conference the various meetings planned to bring the event to life on public service stations …
Three evenings of competition
The grand final will be broadcast on Saturday, May 22, live from 9 pm on France 2. For the sixth year in a row, Stéphane Bern will provide commentary alongside Laurence Boccolini. The latter, who “has been watching Eurovision from a very young age”, will do her baptism of fire. “There are several levels of reading this show: [l’aspect] musical, fashion, human, humor. I hope that we will manage to bring all this to life, ”she slips, assuring that she will assume this responsibility“ with kindness ”. If France is directly qualified for this final, alongside the other members of the “Big Five” (Germany, Spain, Italy, United Kingdom, main financial contributors) and the Netherlands, which are hosting this edition, it does not. is not the same for 33 other countries which will have to go through the semi-finals. These will be broadcast at 9 p.m. on Tuesday 18 and Thursday 20 May. During each evening, ten countries will win their qualifying ticket. Note that the French public will only be able to vote during the second half.
Tastes
Before D-Day, the antennas of France Télévisions will put the viewers in the bath of Eurovision little by little. It will begin with short daily pastilles broadcast on France 2 from Monday, May 10, at 8:40 p.m. On Saturday 22 May, just before the kick-off of the final, Laurent Delahousse will take the backstage of the competition as part of his 8:30 p.m. on Saturday. And the previous days, the musical adventure will be at the heart of the soap opera of 13 hours by Julian Bugier.
A documentary on Barbara Pravi
Since his victory, with the song here, during the French selection for Eurovision, at the end of January, Barbara Pravi enjoys wide media visibility. If she has become a voice and a face more and more familiar to the French public, the documentary here is who I am will reveal it in a more intimate setting. Gianluca Matarrese and her camera accompanied the singer during her preparation for the competition. “He’s been following me for weeks, poor man!” I don’t know how he does it… We have a good laugh, ”joked the artist during the press conference. This report will be broadcast on May 20 on France 4, in the wake of the second semi-final but also on May 23, just after the Eurovision final, well past midnight. The competition will have crowned its winner. And maybe Barbara Pravi…