Final 1 September 2007 Executive supervisor Tal Barnea | Director Nikki Parsons | |
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Venue BBC Television Centre,
London, United Kingdom Presenter(s) Graham Norton
Claudia Winkleman Executive producer Jane Lush
Fenia Vardanis | ||
The Eurovision Dance Contest 2007 was the 1st Eurovision Dance Contest a dance entertainment co-production between the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and the BBC. The first ever pan-European dance competition was held on 1 September 2007 in London, United Kingdom with the participation of 16 countries. Viewers cast their votes by telephone and SMS text message voting on each couple's two dances – the first being ballroom or Latin with the second being freestyle, with a "national" flavour. Comedian Graham Norton and Claudia Winkleman presented the 2007 contest from the BBC Television Centre in London.
Contents
The first ever winner of the contest was Finland who received a total of 132 points. 2nd place went to Ukraine, 3rd to Ireland, 4th to Poland and 5th place to Austria and Portugal, who received both 74 points.
Location
The host venue was the BBC Television Centre, White City, London, which opened in 1960. It is one of the most readily recognisable facilities of its type having appeared as the backdrop for many BBC programmes. It remained to be one of the largest such facilities in the world until it closed in March 2013.
Production
The contest was hosted by the BBC, and was a co-production by Splash Media – run by the developers of its successful Strictly Come Dancing format – and sports production house Sunset + Vine – with help from the International DanceSport Federation and in association with the European Broadcasting Union.
The contest was broadcast in English and French languages, although France did not take part. Each broadcaster also had the option of providing its own commentators at the event. UK commentators were Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli.
Participants
The Croatian broadcaster HRT had expressed an interest in taking part, but pulled out due to costs and scheduling problems.
As well as those countries that took part, Albania, Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Cyprus, Iceland, Israel and Macedonia also broadcast the contest despite not taking part in it, with possibility to join it in 2008.
Due to the forest fires in Greece the Greek national broadcaster ERT did not air the show live and therefore used jury instead of televoting.
Austria and Portugal both finished with the same number of points, however, Austria received points from every other participating nation thus receiving points from more countries than Portugal, hence Austria took 5th place.
Scoreboard
The following 16 countries took part, and received the scores shown below.
12 points
Below is a summary of all 12 points in the contest:
Voting and spokespersons
The order in which each country announced their votes was done in order of performance. The spokespersons are shown alongside each country.
Commentators
Most countries sent commentators to London or commentated from their own country, in order to add insight to the participants and, if necessary, provide voting information.