Eurovision Song Contest 2006
UK Details and Results Page

For all those people who are interested in the Eurovision Song Contest, here are some details and results about the 2006 contest in the UK.

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This is the third year of Making your mind up. It will be broadcast live from Television Centre in London on Saturday 4 March 2006 on BBC1. There are 6 songs competing for this years UK entry.

The UK will go straight to the Eurovision Final on Saturday 20 May 2006. Voting will be done by telephone or sms texting. For the third time, the Theme Tune for Making your mind up for 2006 was Helena Paparizou's 2005 Winner.

BBC1 18:20-19:20, 20:00-20:25

Presented by Terry Wogan and Natasha Kaplinsky
Additional Performance was the 2005 Winner Helena Paparizou with "My Number One".
The panellist were Kelly Osborne, Jonathon Ross, Fern Cotton, Bruno Tonioli

BBCi via Web

The programme was shown on the web at the same time as BBC1

BBCi via Interactive Red Button 19:20 to 19:40

Eurovision Extra with Commentary from Sophie McDonnell
Interviews with the performers.

Regionals

Here are the presenters who gave out the votes for the varies region in the UK

A	North - Manchester	Kelly Young
B	South East - London	Alistair Appleton
C	Scotland - Glasgow	Michelle McManus
D	Midlands - Birmingham	Rustie Lee
E	Web vote	Javine Hilton
F	Northern Ireland - Belfast	Roy Walker
G	Wales - Cardiff	Maggot
H	South West - Bristol	Simon Grant
I	Mobile & Text	Helena Paparizou

Here are the 6 finalist for this years Making Your Mind Up Competition. One more than 2005
Scores are given as 12, 8, 6, 4 and 2 points. Last places gets nil points.
Mobile and Text are given based on Percentages

Position	Song	Performer	Total	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	Performance Order
1	Teenage life	Daz Sampson	121	12	8	8	12	12	8	12	12	37%	3
2	Beautiful thing	Antony Costa	96	8	12	6	8	8	12	6	8	26%	6
3	All about you	City Chix	55	4	4	12	4	4	4	0	4	17%	4
4	Whisper my name	Kym Marsh	53	6	6	4	6	4	6	6	6	9%	2
5	Hand on my heart	Four Story	17	2	2	0	0	0	2	4	2	5%	5
6	Play your game	Goran Kay	14	0	0	2	2	2	0	2	0	6%	1

Panel prediction : Jonathon Ross: Daz Sampson , Fern Cotton : Antony Costa, Bruno Tonioli : Antony Costa, Kelly Osborne : Daz Sampson

Daz Sampson singing Teenage life who will be representing the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 in Athens, Greece.

Antony Costa was a former member of Blue. Kym Marsh was a former member of Hearsay and had hits in the UK.

The Semi Finals will be broadcast on BBC3 at 20:00 for 2 hours on Thursday 18 May 2006, commentator unknown at the moment but it could be Paddy O'Connell.
The Finals will be broadcast on BBC1 at 20:00 for 3 hours 20 minutes on Saturday 20 May 2006, UK commentator will be Terry Wogan (of course. Eurovision is not Eurovision without Terry)

UK Viewers (and anyone who can get Digital TV). Here were some of the Eurovision Specials (More when known) This list may change. Red Shows that it is only on Digital TV (Sky, Cable and Freeview) Timing subject to change
Saturday 4 March	BBC1 18:20 - 19:20	Eurovision Making Your Mind Up
Saturday 4 March	BBC1 20:00 - 20:25	Eurovision Making Your Mind Up Results
Saturday 4 March	via BBCi Website	Eurovision Making Your Mind Up
Saturday 4 March	via BBCi Red Button	Eurovision Making Your Mind Up Extra
Tuesday 16 May	BBC1 22:35 - 23:35	Boom Bang-a-Bang: 50 years of Eurovision
Thursday 18 May	BBC3 20:00 - 22:15	Eurovision Song Contest Semi Final LIVE
Saturday 20 May	BBC1 20:00 - 23:20	Eurovision Song Contest LIVE
Saturday 20 May	via BBCi Red Button	Eurovision Song Contest LIVE Interactive

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Eurovision Song Contest 2006 UK Details and Results Page

Eurovision Song Contest 2006
UK Details and Results Page