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Should Jacques Chancel's "Le Grand Échiquier" be resuscitated?

2021-04-03T10:19:33.583Z


DECRYPTION - Relaunched in 2018, the France 2 program is still struggling to find its identity and its audience. Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine is offering a new version on Saturday at 9:05 p.m.


The sets shine with a thousand lights.

Gims replaced Brassens.

The guests behave much better.

But the discussions stalled.

A cult program dedicated to culture and classical music between 1972 and 1989, "Le Grand Échiquier" was resurrected on France 2 in 2018. At the rate of four issues per year.

With Anne-Sophie Lapix - eight times - then Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine in the role of Jacques Chancel.

The host of "C à vous" will have a lot to do this Saturday to improve the audiences (on average a million and a half) and the intensity of the exchanges, which until then distilled a certain lethargy.

To the point that we wondered if this show had not become anachronistic.

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In the rehearsals of the “Grand Échiquier”, new generation, with Elisabeth Lemoine

Closure of the rooms requires, "

it is still the largest national stage open today to artists

", retorts the dashing Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine.

But until now, the formula, with many dances and performances, had something of the cabaret review.

The magic of the direct must have lost its powers:

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Source: lefigaro

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