"The back to school grid? Usually, we only do that at this time of the year. But there, we spend all our time adapting our programs to health conditions. We can't think of anything else… ”blows one of the leaders of France Televisions.
Impossible to take the time to renegotiate one by one the contracts with the producers, especially since certain renewals are not simple: many numbers have been deleted since the implementation of containment or replaced by best of, reruns or home-made shows that all cost less, of course.
According to information from the puremedias.com site, which Le Parisien is able to confirm, the management of France Télévisions has decided to postpone the return of its channels from September to next January.
But this unprecedented situation does not only make people unhappy. Many of the shows that were due to end in June like "I love you etc." ", The daily by Daphné Bürki or" We are not lying "by Laurent Ruquier on France 2 will gain four more months. France Télévisions did not want to pay the "withdrawal clauses" by which it undertakes to pay for the programs ordered and ultimately not broadcast.
Give France Télévisions time to imagine what happens next
The group preferred to extend most of the current contracts. For the two programs mentioned, the numbers not shot between March and June because of the coronavirus, will be between September and December. This leaves the public group another four months to imagine the rest. And these programs to try one last time to save their skin.
With this pragmatic decision, Delphine Ernotte also avoids a lot of trouble. At the end of the mandate, the president of the public group saw the timetable for her renewal procedure delayed. Initially, the Superior council of audio-visual had promised to name the or the future president at the latest on May 5, 2020. This was postponed to July 24, 2020.
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Delphine Ernotte gives her channels a deadline to prepare for the future without the forthcoming appointment of the future manager (s) of France Televisions disturbing editorial decisions and sometimes tense contractual negotiations.