While it has never managed to escape the shadow of it's older sibling, the Junior Eurovision Song Contest reached double digits with its tenth show last weekend. What challenges face the Junior Contest as it looks towards its second decade of music?

Missed out on tickets to the Eurovision 2013 finals? Don't have your accommodation sorted for Malmo? Still don't want to give up the opportunity to attend the biggest song contest on the planet? The solution to your trouble lies within...

The production team will decide the running order of the shows instead of the drawing of lots; Jon Ola Sand says the running order does not impact on the final result so the focus can be on making a good television show; and the Eurovision community are up in arms about changes they believe are to the detriment of the worlds biggest entertainment show. Let's take a look at the new rule change, try to make some sense of it, and see if there is room for improvement...

Ewan has an issue with people who lump the Eurovision Song Contest into the 'reality TV show' bandwagon. The Song Contest was around long before the current fashionable trainwreck of reality TV exploded at the end of the twentieth century. While there are reality elements that seem to appear in Eurovision, let's be clear. The Song Contest is as far removed from the world of Strictly Come Dancing or The X-Factor as it can possibly be.

If the smaller programming budgets at the BBC may prevent a 'Song for Europe' style show to select the UK's Eurovision 2013 song, "why not use the money from the phone vote to pay for the National Final?" Time to break out the ESC Insight calculators to see if this really is an option.