"Maybe until Monday. Perhaps. The last words of Yann Barthès, live on March 28, left little room for doubt about the coming days of "Quotidien", the flagship of TMC. For the first time since the start of confinement on March 17, there were only two left on set, the star host, and the columnist, Julien Bellver, the other faces of the show speaking from their homes by videoconference. The show recorded a new audience record, with 2.2 million viewers.
But according to our information, on March 27, production decided to advance its Easter vacation week, originally scheduled for April 13. The talk show will therefore be interrupted for a week off from Monday, March 30, to "allow the team members to breathe," said the production. A "break" used to "prepare a new less degraded formula," she adds, adding that best-of entertainment-oriented will be offered this week, before "starting from scratch".
Back on the air on April 6
Because since the announcement of confinement, "Daily" has been resisting, with a line: "Hold as long as possible. "Even when" C à vous "on France 5 drew a line on its 20-hour dinner, cutting back on 30 minutes on the air, or when Cyril Hanouna packed up to offer" Touche pas à mon poste "on C8 from his home, Yann Barthès hung on, while asking himself the question of continuing every day. "How long will we last? He warned on the air.
Deprived of the 120 people who usually make up the audience, the program, which won 300,000 viewers in one year, has erected a safe distance between its columnists, and multiplied the interviews with its guests, such as the astronaut Thomas Pesquet or the singer Angèle, by videoconference. But on March 25, he resolved to reduce the airfoil, with one hour of live instead of two, sacrificing his first part from 7:25 p.m. to 8:15 p.m., and drawing a line under his Friday issue.
Difficult to run the big machine at full speed, with its reports and its flood of shelled images, when the hundred employees of the production company "Bangumi" is teleworking, that several are in quarantine, or that some suspect symptoms of Covid-19. "Welcome to what's left of Daily , welcome to what's left of Paris," said Yann Barthès on Thursday, March 26, sorry. Return to the antenna scheduled for Monday April 6, live.
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