The French have always listened to presidential interventions since the start of the coronavirus crisis. This Sunday evening, Emmanuel Macron intervened on most television channels to announce an acceleration of deconfinement, with, for example, the reopening of all schools and nurseries and the transition to the Ile-de-France green zone. An address followed by nearly 21.8 million people on the main channels, according to Médiamétrie. A very high score, worthy of a football World Cup final, but lower than the historic record of 36.7 million viewers recorded on April 13 by Emmanuel Macron when he announced the confinement of the country.
In detail, they were 10.41 million watching the President of the Republic on TF 1 (37.7% market share), 6.77 million on France 2 (24.5% of PDA), 2.83 million on M 6 (10.3%) and 1.75 million on France 3 (6.3% of PDA). Without counting the news channels continuously, whose audiences are not made public until 11 am. This speech from the Elysée should join the ranking of the six most watched television moments in the history of the small screen.
This intervention boosted television news. With 9.820 million people before the 20 Hours of TF 1 (36.1% of the public), 6.89 million before that of France 2 (25.6%) and 2.55 million before the "1945" of M 6 ( 11.8%).
Dany Boon stronger than Tom Cruise
In the first part of the evening, the irreducible Gallic Dany Boon was not going to be dislodged from his title of king of the box office and the audiences! Even by Tom Cruise! Le Ch'ti allowed TF 1 to win the battle of Sunday films. The replay of the comedy "Nothing to declare" by and with Dany Boon, who shares the poster with Benoît Poelvoorde, Karin Viard and François Damiens made 6.7 million viewers laugh. The market share of the total audience of four years and over present in front of their television is 27.5%. A score higher than the film proposed the previous Sunday.
France 2 follows with "Night and Day". This American film by James Mangold with Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz attracted 3.56 million people, or 14.3% of the public. M 6 is third with the podium complete with a new issue of “Zone Interdite” by Ophélie Meunier. The magazine, which was returning to the cruise around the world of the “Magnifica”, interrupted after two and a half months due to the epidemic of the Coronavirus, was followed by 2.72 million people (10.9% of PDA).
With the British series "DCI Banks", France 3 finished at the foot of the podium. This Sunday's survey attracted 2.64 million curious people (10.3% of PDA). It is slightly better than last week (2.5 million, 10.5% of PDA). TNT side, Arte is largely in the lead with "Billy Elliot". Stephen Daldry's British film starring Jamie Bell and Julie Walters attracted 1.1 million moviegoers, or 4.3% of market share. No other channel exceeds 700,000 viewers.
