Christer Björkman

The Eurovision Song Contest is an international song competition, organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and featuring participants representing primarily European countries. Each participating country submits an original song to be performed on live television and radio, transmitted to national broadcasters via the EBU's Eurovision and Euroradio networks, with competing countries then casting votes for the other countries' songs to determine the winner.

Melodifestivalen (direct translation: The Melody Festival) is an annual music competition organised by Swedish public broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT). The competition is a six part tour (5 heats + the final) with stops in cities across Sweden to determine the country's representative for the Eurovision Song Contest. Melodifestivalen is also known informally as "Mello", or internationally as "Melfest".

Så ska det låta is a Swedish game show, based on the Irish The Lyrics Board. The show was introduced in 1997 and led by Peter Harryson until Peter Settman took over in 2006. Så ska det låta can be watched online at svt play for approximately one month after airing.

Doobidoo is a Swedish musical game show first aired in 2005 on the public service network SVT. There is also a Polish, TVP2, version called Dubidu - show host Piotr Gasowski - and an Australian version that goes by You may be right, hosted by Todd McKenney The Swedish version of the show is hosted by entertainment personality Lasse Kronér.

Big money gameshow, where it pays to know what's valuable and what's not. The show's antique expert has travelled around the country and found 8 collectibles, ranging in value from 500 dollars up to a staggering 500 000 dollars. In each show a couple competing together faces the task of eliminating these objects, one by one, winning the value of the last collectible standing. Will their instincts and the expert's advice send them home with a piece of trash or a valuable piece of treasure?

Benidorm Fest is a song festival organized in Spain by the public communication company Radiotelevisión Española in collaboration with the Generalitat Valenciana. The winner of Benidorm Fest will represent Spain at the Eurovision Song Contest.

Mona Bergström is a sweet eurovision-obsessed woman in her 30s. She is married to a lazy husband and has four children, all named after her favorite Swedish Eurovision popstars. Her brother is a crossdressing guy self-titled "Candy Darling". Mona works in a retirement home for disabled people, where she is responsible for taking care of a young man named David who suffers a movement-restricting disease forcing him into a wheelchair. David's parents have abandoned him, as they wanted a normal child. Mona holds a big place in David's heart, and vica versa. David's goal is to get his parents to come and visit him, and he wants to show them that he is a great person, despite his handicap. Therefore he works with music on his computer, and his goal is to create a song, send it to "The Cardigans", a famous Swedish band and have them play the song and credit him, hoping his parents would spot it and want to visit him.

After two successful decades with Melodifestivalen and five years as producer for the Eurovision Song Contest, Christer Björkman took on the challenge of a lifetime: To take Eurovision to the USA together with Peter Settman, Anders Lenhoff and Ola Melzig. In March, the American Song Contest premiered, join us on an unlikely journey behind the scenes as the USA's own Eurovision is about to be launched.