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Airdate: Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2013

Junior Eurovision screens on SBS 2 next month, just hours after it takes place in Kiev.

Georgia McCarthy & Andre NookaduJunior Eurovision screens on SBS 2 next month, just hours after it takes place in Kiev, Ukraine.

Junior Eurovision, which has previously screened in an afternoon slot on SBS, features 10 to 15 year old performers from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Netherlands, Russia, San Marino, Sweden and Ukraine.

Hosting for SBS 2 are 20 year old performer / producer Andre Nookadu and Young Talent Time finalist Georgia McCarthy. to help audiences discover and rally behind their favourite

A decade old, Junior Eurovision celebrates its eleventh birthday this year and, like most of its contestants, has officially become a tween. The first Junior Eurovision Song Contest took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2003 and was an instant international hit.

This year’s show comes from the National Palace of Arts in Kyiv, Ukraine, after their own 10 year old pitch-perfect Anatasiya Petryk won last year’s contest in a landslide victory with her extremely catchy dance-electronica ballad ‘Nebo’ (Sky).

The theme for the 2013 Junior Eurovision Song Contest is ‘Be Creative’, which clearly strikes a chord with these talented tweens who have each co-written or composed their own song.

Like the grown-up version, The Junior Eurovision Song Contest winner is chosen by a combined vote of the official jury panel, together with the ranking points handed out by viewers in each participating country. The rules differ slightly as prizes are awarded to first, second and third placegetters.

The 12 countries battling it out in this year’s contest are

The mini songster who takes out the title this year is also given the opportunity to be a part of the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen, Denmark.

December 1 at 6 pm on SBS 2.

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