According to our Spanish correspondent Roy D Hacksaw, Benidorm Fest has become a major event in Spain. The festival has been covered extensively, with pre-show news coverage, an opening ceremony and various other programmes. All of that has been televised to fill airtime over a couple of nights in January and February!
Ruth Lorenzo and two other hosts presented a show that started very late in the evening and was supposed to last for two hours. I, though, didn’t believe that when I saw it in the schedules! The qualifiers were chosen through a combination of a 50% “professional” jury, a 25% demographic jury and 25% televoting.
The four qualifiers have been decided, and they are:
[table id=795 /]It’ll go down like a cup of cold sick that the televoting winner ended up not qualifying at all!
