Eurovision in the UK – 1998! 🇬🇧 Behind The Scenes & Making The Show

Published: 28 May 2021
on channel: Fernand's Live Show Show
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It's coming home! In the immortal words of the late great Sir Terry Wogan. It's 1998, 3 lions are on a shirt for the World Cup, yet in a different kind of Cup a music competition was brewing. Birmingham wouldn't know what hit it...

Let's take a look back at the UK's LAST (no pun intended) hosting of the biggest television show in the world: the Eurovision Song Contest, 1998!
A sterling production from the BBC.
Full of many Eurovision FIRSTS, (a 15TH second-placer), and many LASTS - this contest was notable for many things - watch on to find out!

Fernand’s Live Show Show - the show taking a look at the cool creative madness happening behind the scenes in live TV.

#eurovision #bbceurovision #unitedkingdom


Times
00:00 Intro
00:24 "It's Coming Home" - to Birmingham
01:04 Eurovision 98 In Numbers
02:13 The Arena & The Hosts (& Gladiators)
04:06 First & Lasts: Countries
04:24 The Very Curvy Stage
05:41 A Great British Production: Postcards & Orchestra
08:29 A World Of An Interval Act
09:59 Camera Direction Of The 90s
11:32 Graphics & Scoreboard
14:03 FLiSS Faves! - Gaffes and Gossip



SOURCES:
BBC: Eurovision Song Contest 1998:
-- http://web.archive.org/web/1998120304...
Myledbury (www.myledbury.co.uk/eurovision/year/eurovision_1998b.asp)
Naked Eurovision (BBC, December 1998)
The Lightning Seeds - Three Lions 98
Eurovision.tv
https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/7...
Stephen Neal, multicamera director at BBC via Twitter
MikeAffordMedia.com


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