It was the emotional sequence of the day.
And there were many who did not want to miss it.
The farewell of Jean-Pierre Pernaut achieved a phenomenal score on Friday noon.
Almost 8.1 million people watched his final 13 hours and the tribute that followed, or 59% audience share.
A score worthy of a prime time and even higher than the winners of the evening.
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Three years after the end of the series, the French remain very attached to "Fais pas ci, faire pas ça".
It is even the least that we can say to the observation of the box made this Friday evening on France 2 by the special and unpublished episode "Will there be Christmas at Christmas?"
", Which allowed to laugh once again with the Lepic and Bouley families, interpreted by their original cast, and which largely dominated the TV evening with 5.4 million viewers for an audience share (PDA) of 23, 3%.
Immediate consequence: "District Z", the new entertainment of TF1 presented by Denis Brogniart, which pits personalities against zombies on military terrain, and which was inaugurated with fanfare last Friday with a nice score, plunges with figures well in below those of last week.
That is 3.6 million addicts (against 5.3 million on December 12) and 15.3 %% of PDAs (against 26.1% last Friday).
M 6 slipped into third place with “NCIS Special Investigations” which attracted 2.9 million fans of the American series (11.5% of PDA).
Behind this top trio, four channels exceed one million spectators: France 3 with “The great competition of regions: what will be the best recipe in France?
"Which attracts 1.4 million gourmands (6.6% of PDA), C8 with the document" Jean-Pierre Pernaut: 5o years in the heart "which achieves the nice score of 1.3 million nostalgic (5.6 % of PDA) by bouncing on the last news presented by “JPP” at 1 pm, France 5 with “The war of thrones, the true history of Europe” (1.05 million, 4.1% of PDA) and Arte with the replay of the American classic "Grease" (1.02 million, 4.2% PDA).