7 p.m., on CNews.
"And in a moment, it's Christine Kelly for Face à l'Info," announces Laurence Ferrari, who obviously was not aware of the changes to her channel.
As expected since this Thursday morning, it is Pascal Praud who took the air after the journalist of "Punchline".
The presenter of "The hour of the pros" 1 and 2 replaced at short notice Christine Kelly, at the head of this flagship meeting of the chain.
"And I greet Christine Kelly, Eric de Riedmatten and Dimitri Pavlenko who will observe for a few days the principle of precautions not to come on the television set because of a suspicion of Covid", begins Pascal Praud, wearing a blue suit identical to that of the morning.
He then welcomes in front of him Jean-Sébastien Ferjou, founder of the right-wing site Atlantico and Harold Hyman, Franco-American journalist specializing in international affairs.
For his part, Eric Zemmour, "feverish" Wednesday, appears once again in duplex.
But not from an isolated CNews office, like the day before, nor from a box of “Zemmour and Naulleau” broadcast on Paris Première in the wake.
It is at home, in front of "a library overflowing with historical essays", as Pascal Praud describes it, that he delivers his well-defined comments, black microphone with a luminous red dot in hand and headset wire that looks more like a big earring.
Funny situation.
"We are still five men talking about abortion there"
"I have a storage problem", concedes the polemicist, after a first editorial on animal welfare while a banner "The Bambi generation against hunting" appears on the screen.
Then another on the possibility of prolonging the abortion, while his atrium does not already hold.
"It does not matter, it is direct and only TV", plays down Pascal Praud, before it gets worse for his interlocutor.
"Ah, excuse me, I'm troubled by my headset story," Eric Zemmour interrupts, gesturing with his hands.
"Pay attention to the microphone when you move, keep it well in front of your mouth", finally resumes the 56-year-old presenter.
According to our information, the star polemicist of “Face à l'Info” will be placed in solitary confinement until Wednesday, October 14 inclusive.
As for the other usual speakers, the occupational health service of the Canal + group to which CNews belongs, told them that they could "come and work on site normally while continuing to apply barrier gestures" because they "do not meet the definition. contact case ”even if they were not wearing a mask on the set.
But it is nevertheless from his home that Marc Menant intervenes, behind a poorly lit background.
"It is not because you are outside that you have to talk longer", Pascal Praud cuts him off, smirking.
Leading, he notes a problem at the end of the show: "We are still five men talking about abortion, there".
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In an hour, we also get a microphone left open when it should not be and several sound bugs.
A lesser evil, for this remote version of "Face à l'Info".
Pascal Praud greets Christine Kelly “tenderly” one last time.
According to our information, she will be back on Monday.