Tonight, the 2008 national final season of the Eurovision Song Contest will continue: the fifth semi final of the Icelandic national selection will be held. Three songs will be presented and the best one – chosen by televoting – will reach the final to be held on 16th February. Of course, there will be a webcast again!

The show

PLEASE NOTE: The show will start at 21:15 CET (20:15 local time)from this week on because there is no DST in Iceland. The results will be revealed in the second part of the show at 22:40 CET (21:40 local time.Ragnhildur Steinunn Jónsdóttir & Gísli Einarsson will host the program.

Although the winners will be chosen by televoting, there is also a jury that comments on the songs. One of the jury members is Selma who represented Iceland twice in the Eurovision Song Contest: in 1999, she achieved second place (Iceland's best result so far) with All out of luck; in 2005 she didn't manage to qualify through the semi final with If I had your love.

You can read more about the selection procedure here.

Webcast

You can follow the high qualitywebcast here.

In 2005, 2006 and 2007, Iceland did not manage to reach the final of the Eurovision Song Contest although the country was sometimes quite close finishing 16th, 13th and again 13th in the semi final respectively. Iceland will havetake part in one of the semi finalsin Belgrade.