Headline : Eurovision 2024: Showrunner Per Blankens Previews What to Expect, From ABBA to the Runtime

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With the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest less than seven weeks away, production in host country Sweden has kicked into high gear. Taking on the role of showrunner, Per Blankens has produced 10 seasons of Idol in Sweden; seasons 13 and 14 of American Idol; and the annual Melodifestivalen in Sweden, the competition the country uses to select its Eurovision entry.

Billboard spoke to Blankens via Zoom to get an early preview of this year’s pan-European song competition.

You grew up in Sweden, a country that has a long-lasting love for Eurovision. What is your earliest memory of the contest?

I was only two years old when ABBA won (in 1974 with “Waterloo”), but I was 12 when Herreys won (in 1984 with “Diggi-Loo, Diggi-Ley”), so I have a definite memory of that year. I have great memories of Eurovision because back in the day the whole family would gather in front of the TV and it would be the special event and amazing show that it still is today. Once in a year, it showed up and you saw all these different countries and different people and different outfits and different songs. So I watched it from a very young age.

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