Eurovision: Update due on 2023 host city shortlist

Channel 4 has announced a new digital series about trainspotting that will be hosted by Francis Bourgeois.The five-part series, titled Trainspotting With Francis Bourgeois, will see the TikTok star being joined by various celebrities to take part in the pastime across five different locations across the UK.Bourgeois will be joined by a different celebrity in each episode, including comedian Aisling Bea, Eurovision’s Sam Ryder, AJ Tracey, footballer Jesse Lingard and former Love Island contestant Chloe Burrows.Speaking about the series, Bourgeois said: “Trainspotting With Francis Bourgeois has been an absolute whirlwind. When I started making videos about my hobby I never thought anything like this would happen.

Married At First Sight UK stars April Banbury and Whitney Hughes were spotted looking slightly panicking on Thursday evening as the duo made a last-minute dash to the National Television Awards at London’s OVO Arena in Wembley. Dressed in a bronze toned satin gown, Whitney looked impeccable as she teetered on neutral coloured heels while racing to attend the hottest TV awards show of the year.

National Album Day returns for its fifth edition on Saturday (October 15) with the 2022 event set to celebrate debut albums from across multiple genres and decades.Franz Ferdinand and Sam Ryder will serve as ambassadors this year alongside KSI, The Mysterines, The Staves, Jake Bugg, India Arkin and others. Around 30 classic debut albums will be reissued alongside new debut LPs to coincide with National Album Day.“What a glorious medium the album is,” Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos said in a statement.“On the most basic level it’s a bunch of songs that sound good together, but what I love is that it is a moment in time for the artist and the listener, a way to define a period of a lifetime.

The 2023 Eurovision Song Contest will be staged in the English city of Liverpool, the BBC said Friday, after Britain was asked to hold the event on behalf of designated host country Ukraine.

Eurovision Song Contest, after it was confirmed that Liverpool had been chosen as the UK host city for the competition. On Friday’s The One Show, Graham Norton made the huge announcement, as the people of Liverpool celebrated and those in Glasgow commiserated over their loss.

2 min read Liverpool has been named as the Host City of the 67th Eurovision Song Contest, following a competitive bidding process by cities across England.

Liverpool was tonight unveiled as the host of the 67th Eurovision Song Contest next year - and the reaction in Manchester was, well, mixed.

Liverpool has been selected as host city for the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest, the wildly popular music competition that will be entering its 67th year. The city of the Beatles won out Friday over Glasgow, the fellow finalist from a shortlist of UK cities that included Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle and Sheffield.

Eurovision Song Contest 2023.The news was confirmed on The One Show this evening, with BBC Eurovision commentator Graham Norton making the announcement.“It means everything,” Liverpool’s director of culture, Claire McColgan, said. “We’re doing it for Ukraine first of all, for our brilliant city and for the people who come here.

Liverpool has tonight been chosen as the host city for the Eurovision Song Contest in 2023.

K.J. Yossman The 2023 Eurovision Song Contest will be held in Liverpool. The winner was selected from a shortlist of seven U.K. cities. The news comes after months of uncertainty over where the contest would be held.https://t.co/Lrs7Fnqqoq Liverpool’s win was announced on BBC’s “The One Show” on Friday evening (Oct. 7). The exact dates of the contest have not yet been revealed although it is always held in May. It is likely the event will be hosted in the city’s biggest arena, the M&S Bank Arena, which has a capacity of 11,000. Currently there are two acts scheduled to perform there in May: Olly Murs on May 6 and violinist Andre Rieu on May 12.

Excitement is building with just hours to go until we find out if it's Glasgow or Liverpool that will be hosting the Eurovision Song Contest in 2023.

Eurovision Song Contest 2023 is set to be announced this evening (October 7).Last month, it was confirmed that either Glasgow or Liverpool will be staging next year’s event on behalf of Eurovision 2022 winners Ukraine. A shortlist of seven potential cities was announced in August before organisers whittled it down to two.Yesterday (October 6), BBC Eurovision commentator Graham Norton told Chris Evans on Virgin Radio that he would be “discussing where Eurovision is going to be” on TV tonight alongside this year’s runner-up, Sam Ryder.“Because we’ll know by then,’ Norton said.

This year's National Album Day is focused on the brilliance of debut albums; that rare kind of record, which can see so many artists capture lightning in a bottle.