Jean-Jacques Bourdin intends to weigh in the next presidential election. And not just through his 8:30 am interview co-broadcast on RMC and BFMTV. This is what he told the management of the 24-hour news channel on channel 15. His wish was granted: the star journalist will host a new broadcast in prime time and live, provisionally called "Bourdin direct , the evening ". The concept: a candidate for the Élysée in front of a panel of fifty French cast and representatives of society. Originality of this program: it will not be shot on one of BFMTV's Parisian sets, but in different provincial towns.
"I wanted a night meeting, said Jean-Jacques Bourdin, during the press conference back to school BFMTV on Wednesday.
An exceptional presidential meeting.
We are in full reflection.
We're working on four to six issues by May.
The first will be broadcast in October.
It has to be spectacular.
Me, I will be the arbiter between the French and a great candidate or possible candidate.
I like to meet people, I like to interview politicians.
There, I will be able to combine the two.
"
An American show
It was all decided in a few weeks. “Jean-Jacques came to see us with an idea just before the summer,” specifies Hervé Béroud, Deputy Managing Director of Altice Media. He wanted to have his own show. He was offered another concept. In the second, he accepted. “To maneuver, Marc-Olivier Fogiel. "We would like to be inspired by American
Town Halls
, like that of Joe Biden in Florida," enthuses the general manager of BFMTV. It was Philippe Corbé (
Editor's note: ex-correspondent in New York for RTL who became the head of the political service of the first news channel
) who drew my attention to these major devices. Jean-Jacques Bourdin should also be supported by one or two in-house journalists, in particular for instant fact-checking sequences.
A year after being ousted from the RMC morning show in favor of Apolline de Malherbe, the 72-year-old journalist therefore finds a little more light.
“As he said himself, this is his last season with us.
Well, no doubt.
And it keeps an essential place ”, assures Hervé Béroud.
For her part, Apolline de Malherbe was confirmed at the presentation of the next four electoral evenings of BFMTV and RMC, two for the presidential election, two others for the legislative elections.
It remains to find him a pair from the group's radio station.
The management is looking for another voice than that of Alain Marschall, who also ensured the evenings of the last regional elections.
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