"After this strange year", the journalist and host Augustin Trapenard announced Tuesday his departure at the end of January from the Canal + group which he had integrated in 2012. For more than four years he had presented the program "Le Cercle" dedicated to cinema. .
“I have other desires, other projects.
I keep everything I learned, everything we have experienced, all those with whom I have had the chance to work for almost 10 years.
It is with emotion that I will leave @canalplus at the end of January, ”the journalist announced on Twitter.
Pressure?
His message was accompanied by a photo of him with the humorous cult couple Deschiens, formed by François Morel and Yolande Moreau, and launched on Canal + in the early 1990s.
❤️📺🙏🏻 After this strange year, I have other desires, other projects.
I keep everything I learned, everything we have experienced, all those with whom I have had the chance to work for almost 10 years.
It is with great emotion that I will be leaving @canalplus at the end of January.
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- Augustin Trapenard (@ATrapenard) December 29, 2020
An editorial choice?
In the corridors of the encrypted channel, few official reactions.
But far from the microphones, the tongues loosen and evoke pressures to receive "house" authors (Editis and Canal + are both under the leadership of Vincent Bolloré and the Vivendi group) as part of "21 cm", l literary program he hosts.
"We made him understand that he had to be more corporate, that he had to receive more authors from the group," slips an employee of the encrypted channel.
Augustin himself wanted to keep his editorial freedom, which Canal + could no longer guarantee ”.
A departure that occurs in a particularly electric climate at Canal + after the controversial dismissals of two of its stars, the columnist and presenter, Sébastien Thoen and the sports commentator, Stéphane Guy.
Two layoffs cause an uproar at Bolloré
Sébastien Thoen was thanked at the end of November for having participated in a parody of a program by Pascal Praud, one of the pillars of CNews, the news channel of the Canal + group.
Stéphane Guy was fired on Christmas Eve for showing his support on the air.
These layoffs caused an uproar within the group, the first representative union, Libres, denouncing Monday the "contempt of (their) management and (their) shareholder", the Vivendi group owned by billionaire Vincent Bolloré, for the original values group built "among other things on impertinence, caricature and self-mockery".
Asked by AFP to know if these events had weighed in his decision, Augustin Trapenard, did not follow up.
The Canal + group praised his work, wishing him “every success in his new projects”.
As for the program "Le Cercle", it will return soon on Canal +
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Laurence Bloch, the director of France Inter, is worried on Twitter.
Augustin Trapenard hosts Boomerang there.
"Your desires elsewhere after this strange year, it is not to join Bourbonnais, your family, to open a bookstore and to quit the radio?
», She wrote to Augustin Trapenard.
"Reassure me and reassure your soon to be two million listeners," she asks him.
Real question or pure rhetorical figure?
Dear, if Dear @ATrapenard
Reassure me and reassure your soon two million listeners @BoomerangInter @franceinter
Your desires elsewhere after this strange year it is not to join Bourbonnais, your family, to open a bookstore and to quit the radio? 😉? 🙃?
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- Laurence Bloch (@LaurenceBloch) December 29, 2020