"We are live" ... This should be the title of the new talk show that Laurent Ruquier will present next season on France 2, according to Télé loisirs. A title which, according to our information, holds the rope well. With this novelty: while recording “We are not lying” (“ONPC”) on Thursday, Laurent Ruquier will be stacked live this Saturday on the second half of the evening.
How to better mark the transition? After 14 seasons, the host will present the last issue of "ONPC" on July 4. He will then sign the end of his long collaboration with his producer Catherine Barma. “I have been working with her for twenty years. I want to see something else, to regain my freedom. I thought it was the right time to “reinvent myself”, Laurent Ruquier told the Parisian on April 18.
And to write a new television page, he called on Philippe Thuillier who is already producing the prime time TV version of "Grosses tête", his daily entertainment on RTL. It is up to them to imagine a future Saturday evening meeting on the Deux which could start, not at the beginning of September, but in the course of the autumn.
A lower budget than "ONPC"
Discussions are underway with the management of France Télévisions on the precise content of the program, the principle of which has been established, but which, because of the cost-saving measures within the public group, will count on a lower budget than that of "On n 'is not lying'. So live, and filmed in a studio, this future generalist talk show will address all the news of the week with in particular several sections.
Promised: it will not look like its predecessor either in form or content. "We will see if we manage to mount a program that looks like me, but that is different from ONPC, " Laurent Ruquier said in mid-May to Télé 2 weeks magazine.
While waiting for the last validations from France Télévisions, the faithful of the star presenter of France 2 are likely to find him also next season at the controls of "Children of TV" and future three prime time of "Big heads".