She is at 34 Molly - Children Of The Universe

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Molly has spent 4 weeks inside the UK Charts but this week she enters the Top 40 for the first time if her sales continue by Sunday. (Number 48 last week and 179 the week before that)

I've not actually heard the song yet

Not really when you take into account the 16 years of contests they haven't hosted since 1998. Apparently they pay comparatively little each year for what is a long stretch of (generally) high-rating airtime.

The UK Eurovision song is on BBC Red Button at 22:20.

It's pretty much an open secret that certain people who are or used to be at the BBC would rather the UK not win [and thus host] Eurovision due to the costs involved.

Even at the minimum required £12million, thats for about 9hours of airtime, 6 of which would be for low rating semi finals hardly anyone watches. The three hours of proper BBC One prime time entertainment would cost the BBC effectively £3-4million per hour, about 6 times higher than what they pay for their biggest Saturday night entertainment series like Strictly. It's very expensive to cover if youre host broadcaster and would impact on their programme budget for other genres quite significantly.

I am not trying to have a go Samuel but it seems you only remember the times you are right and forget the rest.

Not sure why we are talking as though we could win it - surely the song is not good enough even if it is an improvement on recent efforts.

We have zero chance of winning. Even if we had Beyoncé singing 'Bohemian Rhapsody' we still wouldn't win, because every other country hates us!

Didn't ITV once do a programme called 'Two Strangers and a Wedding' which was about a couple who got married as part of a local radio competition? Back in the late 90s or early noughties?

**Calling Steve Williams! Calling Steve Williams!!**

Hate us!there happy to live here though.
Free healthcare
Free education
Free food and they nick all our housing as well.bludey cheek.They should all be giving us 12 points!

That was a party political broadcast by uk independence party.

I know the Birmingham commercial radio station BRMB ran such a competition, but I don't remember the TV show about it.

I hadn't realised that when one of the couples split, the woman went on to marry Jeremy Kyle (yes, him), at that time one of the DJs!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Str..._and_a_Wedding

Could be worse, Could be a hard one.
Is she from Austria too, or just the beard?

You are Nigel Farage and I claim my £5.

@bbcstrictly: EXCLUSIVE We are pleased to confirm Tess and Claudia as our Strictly co-hosts when we return to @BBCOne in the autumn http://t.co/RIOnoOCQ58

Perfect choice, I really like Claudia. Tess and Claudia have great chemistry and Claudia's a long standing fixture of the show so yep a sensible choice from old Auntie.

Edit - as Cylon nicely put it no surprise at all.

No surprise at all.

So much for the midnight embargo then.

Good choice.

The Claudia decision makes sense. She's understudied Bruce for years, increasingly so, as he's continued to scale back his workload, and now he's scaled it back to just two editions, she's picking up even more of the slack.

When you think about it its the obvious choice so not sure why we had to wait so long for it to be announced.
I now await all the 'marmite' posts.

The bookies don't get things that wrong. Happy enough with that. It could have been so much worse.

That said, I suspect it might not be an arrangement that spans many seasons. They'll see how it goes obviously but I wouldn't be surprised if the presenting lineup is tweaked again sooner rather than later.

I am happy enough with that news.

Glad it's Claudia.

Familiarity and it's not like the show is presenter-driven.

I'm happy because she might not be available for Film 2014, and I can start watching it again.

The Eurosong episode of Father Ted is said to be based on the fact that Ireland won Eurovision three years in a row and it was costing too much money for RTE so they deliberately sent a sub par entry, I wonder if there is an element of truth in why the UK and to an extent Ireland sent entries that are unlikely to win.

I think we are being a little unfair here, the UK entry is good this year, I certainly enjoy it everytime I hear it on Radio 2,

CSI: Cyber and NCIS: New Orleans both ordered to series by CBS, something for Channel 5 to consider to replace The Mentalist.

Renewed:

Nashville (More4)
Hannibal (Sky Living)
About a Boy (Sky1)

Cancelled:

Suburgatory (E4)
Believe (Watch)
Community (Sony Entertainment)
Revolution (Sky1)

I don't think Claudia is the right choice. Time will tell though but she is not popular enough and this so called chemistry with Tess is contrived. A stand in presenter, yes, but not a main one for BBC's main entertainment show