"There it is, it starts again. Different, but it starts again! "Smiles Simon Najman, production director of" We're not lying ". The doors of Studio Gabriel reopened with discretion, this Tuesday evening at 8:30 p.m. Without an audience, surrounded by small teams wearing masks and gloves, Laurent Ruquier found for three hours, the arena of his talk show, after two months of absence due to confinement. More "intimate" conditions, as summed up by the host, who "liked this very interesting recording". "We keep our fingers crossed so that viewers can adapt to this new atmosphere," he says.
The show, broadcast this Saturday evening at 11:30 pm on France 2, was "settled like a letter in the post", according to production, after several days of meticulous preparation from a distance. Deprived of the applause of the 230 spectators who usually take their places in the audience, the decor has been refurbished, without a bleacher, and the technical teams limited to around thirty people. “We scrupulously respected government directives. The guests, placed 1.5 m apart, came in pairs and succeeded each other. When the first two came out, the desks were disinfected, ”explains Simon Najman.
The “Children of TV” recordings also resumed
Among them: the actor and director Franck Gastambide, who is a hit with his series "Valide" currently broadcast on Canal +. But also the French novelist Tonino Benacquista, rare in the media, the singer Camélia Jordana, or the digital scientist Aurélie Jean who came to talk about the "world after". On the political side, EELV MEP Yannick Jadot settled into the chair to answer questions from Laurent Ruquier and his two columnists, the journalist Valérie Trierweiler and the writer Philippe Besson.
A return to a less theatrical atmosphere, deemed "joyful" and conducive to "confidence", before the end clap: "We are not lying" will stop definitively on July 4, after fourteen seasons in the second half of evening on France 2. A decision explained by Laurent Ruquier on April 19 at the Parisian. The 57-year-old host said he wanted to "reinvent himself" and "regain his freedom", after 20 years of collaboration with producer Catherine Barma. "I work on projects for Saturday evening, a priori for public service, but I'm not on the lookout to keep this box ..." he said.
The one who is also in command of "Big Heads" on RTL has not yet announced his intentions. And resumed in stride this Wednesday the recording of "Children of TV", his other program from France 2, which will return this Sunday on the air, with as guests Juan Arbelaez, Laury Thilleman, Nawell Madani, Willy Rovelli.