There’s a lot of silver screen homages in this year’s Song Contest, and while one film does spring to mind when looking at a few titles, there are one or two more. Our Senior Interview, Terry Vision, has spotted a few, join him for a unique look at this year’s songs.

Australia’s upcoming ‘one-off’ appearance at the Eurovision Song Contest is the culmination of SBS Australia’s persistent lobbying over several years. John Egan considers what other countries and which host broadcasters might be next?

With all the snippets of news and views from the Press Centre we present another one of our ESC Insight newsletters. Today in Robertson’s Reflection we take a little look on the volunteers behind the Song Contest making it so special.

The city of Vienna is making a considerable effort to making this Song Contest, this year going full out to promote Vienna and Austria to the Press, Fans and Delegates. Alison Wren looks at what is being done here and asks why, what does Vienna hope to get out of their tourist millions?

So we’re nearly four days into ESC Insight’s coverage of Eurovision 2015’s rehearsals, and debates rage on. What’s qualifying, what’s crashing out, what’s lived up to expectations, what’s faceplanted, and, in one extreme case, how a person would get from Minneapolis to Sochi for the least amount of money. But what are we actually doing […]

Semi-final two and the second rehearsals are up for discussion today, with old hands Ewan Spence and Samantha Ross joining debutants Kylie Wilson (Eurodummies) and John Egan (ESC Insight).