15 h. ago Martin Osterdahl steps down as executive supervisor of Eurovision Song Contest

He said it had been the ‘honour of my professional life’ to steer the competition for five years.

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4 d. ago The Legend of Rooney’s Ring: Wayne and Coleen get their very own summer panto

How has Motherland writer Helen Serafinowicz followed up her TV hits? With a rollicking, sub-Game of Thrones epic based on a Liverpudlian legend. Will the happy couple go and see it?The benefits of hosting Eurovision are contested. But Liverpool has that song contest to thank, improbably enough, for wooing an exiled writer back to her native city. Helen Serafinowicz is the co-writer of BBC sitcoms Motherland and, more recently, Amandaland. The world of TV, you might think, is at her feet – but instead she’s returning to Merseyside with a debut theatre show, a swords-and-sorcery pastiche about the relationship between Wayne and Coleen Rooney, rejoicing in the title The Legend of Rooney’s Ring.“I’ve started reconnecting with Liverpool recently,” says Serafinowicz, scouse accent unmistakable as she dishes up a cuppa at her home in Norwich. “And I was invited to the Eurovision song contest in the city a few years ago.” While there, she went to see her friend, the actor Keddy Sutton, in ...

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1 week ago BGT star who went viral in emotional moment quits job for gruelling challenge

Britain's Got Talent star Reuben Gray rose to fame on the contest in 2017 with an emotional original song written for his then-girlfriend

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3 w. ago Will Ferrell confirms musical based on Eurovision movie comedy 'in development'

The actor and comedian said a musical is the ‘perfect place to continue our celebration of all the things we love about this amazing and unifying song competition’

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3 w. ago Will Ferrell ‘excited’ to bring Eurovision musical to Broadway

The American actor is basing the project on his Netflix movie, Eurovision Song Contest: The Story Of Fire Saga.

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3 w. ago Brits music icon says she'd love to do Strictly but gets 'rejected every year by producers'

The singer, who rose to fame in the early 80s on the Eurovision Song Contest, revealed that BBC bosses have rejected her proposal to star on the show multiple times.

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