Audience flop for the Cesar 2022 ceremony

The 47th Cesar ceremony broadcast unencrypted on Friday evening on Canal + attracted 1.3 million viewers (i.e. 8.5% market share), an even lower score than last year, according to figures from Médiamétrie published on Saturday .

This is only a third of the audience record garnered by this program in 2012, which stood at 3.9 million viewers.

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This poor result, despite the return of the former host of "

", Antoine de Caunes, as master of ceremonies, occurs in a particularly gloomy context, weighed down by the Russian invasion in Ukraine two days before.

"

," said Australian Cate Blanchett on Friday, after receiving a long ovation and an honorary Caesar.

Already last year, the ceremony, marked by a pro-intermittent happening of the show of actress Corinne Masiero naked on stage, flopped with 1.6 million viewers (9.1% audience share) and aroused a torrent of criticism deploring the navel-gazing of the world of cinema, in the midst of a pandemic.

With this score, Canal+ is in 4th place in the evening's audiences, far behind France 2 crowned queen with a new episode of the series "

" (4.1 million viewers, 19.9% audience share).