The announcement just fell. After two weeks of madness occupying the field against all odds, Yann Barthès had to advance the forced vacation of his team. We won't be seeing them on the air all next week. However, the show recorded a new audience record, with 2.2 million followers. But on March 27, production decided to shift its Easter vacation week, originally scheduled for April 13. The talk show will therefore stop on Monday, March 30 to "breathe".
Because since the announcement of confinement on March 16, "Daily" has been resisting. Without audiences, the TMC program erected a safe distance between its columnists, and increased the number of guests, such as Thomas Pesquet or Angèle, by videoconference. But on Wednesday 25, for the first time, he resolved to reduce the airfoil, with one hour of live instead of two, sacrificing his first part and drawing a line under his Friday issue.
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Difficult to run the machine at full speed, when the hundred employees of the production company Bangumi is teleworking, several are in quarantine, or that others suspect symptoms of Covid-19. "Welcome to what's left of Daily , welcome to what's left of Paris," said Barthès on Thursday, March 26, sorry. Return scheduled for April 6.
"C à vous" is for everyone
On March 18, Eric Maury, president of the Resuscitation Society (SRLF), questions Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine directly. He suggests that he "stop doing (Editor's note: broadcasts) , because it may be a contamination zone". "However, our mission is to inform, we are a public service chain! "Then replied the host of" C à vous "on France 5. Audiences proved him right: never before had the program been watched, with 1.9 million viewers (8.1% of PDA) in average since November 16, against 1.4 million (7.5% of PDA) the previous week. It even outperformed TF1 during the week.
A choice approved by the editorial staff. "It's not macabre excitement," explains one of his figures. We have rarely felt so useful… ”And if the dinner part from 8 p.m. to 8:20 p.m. has been removed, the Friday program, usually recorded on Thursday afternoon, is now live to keep up with the news. “Everyone tele-works, specifies its producer Pierre-Antoine Capton. Only 10 people come to the premises, all volunteers. We take our temperature. There are only 6 people in control, against a dozen usually, and only two cameramen. "
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No more outdoor reporting. The number of people on the set is limited. The guests intervene by videoconference. No question for Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine to do without her columnists Patrick Cohen and Maxime Switek. However, Marion Ruggieri and Pierre Lescure are asked to stay at home. "To keep 2 m between each other, I would have to spend my time going in and out," smiles the latter, who intervenes via Skype. I am not the youngest in the band, so I will not take risks for 1 min of antenna. "
Hanouna receives in her sofa
It has been like this since March 17th. Cyril Hanouna had the cameras, cables and computers necessary to transform his apartment into a television studio at his home. And "Don't touch my post" in "Tonight at Baba's". “He didn't want to risk his teams, the public. His father is a doctor, Cyril is very aware of health issues, ”added one of his relatives.
With its two computers, its portable control unit and its headset, Hanouna tries, every evening for 3:30, to perpetuate the TPMP spirit. Installed in his brown sofa with large pink cushions or in his large kitchen, he redid the news with his columnists on Skype. The main thing is to keep in touch with its followers, the fanzouzes. In recent days, they are 800,000 irreducible every night, against more than a million usually. And the host continues, even thinking about organizing a non-stop 48-hour program.
"In this complicated period, only the direct allows us to discuss the subjects that concern us," says Franck Appietto, the general manager of C8. But this choice also has economic reasons. Because Hanouna has agreed to significantly reduce the price of its program. A good deal when advertising has become scarce since the start of containment and losses are accumulating in private channels. "Obviously, Tonight at Baba is much cheaper than TPMP , adds the chain's owner, Today, the show is profitable. "
“Click” put on Instagram
He was one of the first to stop. "I made the decision as soon as Emmanuel Macron announced the closure of the schools. Clique is an editorial staff of around sixty people aged 22 to over 60," says Mouloud Achour. I did not want to put them in a delicate situation. In these moments, we do not think about the life of the media, we are in the concrete. "
Very quickly, the host, from 7:55 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Canal +, decides to migrate to Instagram. “The decision was taken naturally, in a very selfish way, we wanted to do good by telling other things that interested us. The idea is that people feel less alone, without falling into an anxiety-provoking atmosphere, while providing information. Exchanges with dozens of virtual guests last between 1 hour ... and 3 hours, as with DJ Snake, who opened the doors of his studio, footballer Adil Rami from Russia, or a representative of the Abbé Pierre Foundation .
Achour only works with his cell phone from home. “Be careful, it's not just a live with friends. Everything is very prepared, very written, he specifies. And I have no problem convincing people to come. They know they are not coming to talk about something close to their hearts. The live on Instragram finished, his team mounts a one hour version, posted on the MyCanal platform.