A blow of vacuum cleaner to remove the dust accumulated for two months and presto, it left! Many presenters of television programs will find this Monday, May 11, the studios of Plaine Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis), stopped since the start of the confinement linked to Covid-19, on March 16. Not really a return to television, since there will be nothing new, but all the same a sacred recovery.
The palm goes to France 2 which relaunched this Monday the recordings of two daily newspapers: "Do not forget the lyrics", by Nagui and "I love you etc." By Daphne Bürki. Before Sophie Davant's “Deal concluded” follows in the week, “Everyone wants to take their place”, the other game by Nagui, “Everyone has their say” by Olivier Minne and Sidonie Bonnec, etc. Same excitement in private channels, since Jean-Luc Reichmann has an appointment for a recording session of "Twelve blows of noon", his midday game from TF 1. The magazine "Automoto" will also be shot this Tuesday.
Even TNT will find activity: Jean-Marc Morandini will be live on NRJ 12 in the first part of the evening for his magazine "Crimes". Some of these programs will be broadcast the same day, others a little later in the week, the time to mount them.
Faustine Bollaert "impatient"
On the air for two months with a streamlined device, "Daily" by Yann Barthès intends to reconnect very gradually with a normal rhythm. First step this Monday evening: the guests and the comedians will be back on set. On Arte, Elisabeth Quin's "28 minutes" magazine will offer its original 40-minute format and will receive actress Juliette Binoche as a guest. On France 5, "C à vous", will have to wait until May 25 to reinstate its dinner and welcome its columnists Pierre Lescure and Marion Ruggieri.
Impatient, Camille Combal and Faustine Bollaert took a step ahead. The first recorded numbers Thursday, May 7, "Who wants to make millions at home? For TF 1. He was alone on a large deserted plateau and the players at home by videoconference. Faustine Bollaert, she resumed on May 6 the path of the studio located in the premises of the production company Reservoir Prod to be able to offer Monday afternoon an unreleased number of "It starts today", its broadcast of testimonies on France 2.
“I was impatient to exchange with the French again. For two weeks, we will talk with them about the past few months, comments the host. It is very important to put words on this period and it was frustrating not to be able to do so during this confinement. "
The seats of large chains with restricted access
All these shows have one thing in common: they are produced by production companies independent of the channels. Because TF 1, France 2, M 6, they will continue to restrict access to their head office as much as possible. "In March, it took only a few days to lighten the way we work to continue with small teams, but our deconfinement will take much longer, we note within the public group. Access to the headquarters of France Televisions is always limited and the news programs of France 2 and France 3 are provided on the same platform, with one and the same team under management ”.
Ditto TF 1 where, the ultimate symbol, Jean-Pierre Pernaut, one of the first PAF personalities to have left the antenna to confine himself, will stay at home for a few more weeks, still leaving orders for his "13 Hours" to his joker, Jacques Legros.
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Post-May 11 television will have nothing to do with pre-March 16 television. Because filming is subject to drastic sanitary conditions, listed in a charter being finalized with the Ministry of Labor. Among the measures that apply to everyone: wearing a mandatory mask, respecting social distancing, disinfecting studios, installing plexiglass walls, the absence of the public, etc.
"Fewer wide shots to avoid seeing that it is empty"
“We will be around twenty instead of a hundred, we have planned a larger control room to respect social distancing. On the set, we will make fewer wide shots to avoid seeing that it is empty all around, notes Nathalie Cottet, the producer of "Je t'aime etc." Who also revised his copy to "bring more good humor and practical advice". Here, as at Faustine Bollaert, the guests will also intervene via Skype. “It's a challenge to create emotion by talking to people through a screen, says the presenter. Not being able to look each other in the eye takes a small distance, but that does not prevent having real exchanges. "
What is playable for magazines is much more complicated for series or even large barnums recorded in public or outdoors. However, the chains do not give up. France 2 plans to start filming “Fort Boyard” in mid-June, with improvements. And TF 1 still hopes to start before the summer a second season of "Mask Singer", the entertainment presented by Camille Combal.
On the radio, a very gradual return to the studio
No major change for listeners. This Monday, May 11, many journalists and hosts will present their programs on the air from their homes. Radio workers will only return to the studio gradually.
After two months in the garage of his house in Normandy, Matthieu Belliard, he will leave his refuge. The morning officer will be on Monday again in the Parisian premises of Europe 1. “That he moved to his home was consistent with the recommendations we made to listeners and also to our employees. It was in line with what the French were going through, said Donat Vidal Revel, the news director of the radio. His return follows the same logic. He is called upon to resume normal activity but with strong health precautions. "
On France Inter, Augustin Trapenard and Sonia Devillers continue to give way to a long version of "Great good you do!" By Ali Rebeihi. It is in the evening that the biggest developments will take place. Laure Adler and Michka Assayas will be back at 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. But the event will take place at 10 pm: absent from the station since June, Edouard Baer will relaunch "Lights in the night". Each evening, the actor will offer a two-hour break with his crazy and poetic humor.
On RTL, Jacques Pradel has just taken up “Heure du crime” from his home (at 8 pm). "Curiosity is an ugly flaw", the program co-piloted by Sidonie Bonnec and Thomas Hugues, will also find its usual formula, still produced at a distance, this May 11 at 2 p.m. after becoming "La Curiosité returns to school" these last weeks.