Radio host in the morning, Grégory Ascher sits at the table of "L'Équipe de Greg" between 5:15 p.m. and 7:45 p.m., Monday to Thursday, on the L'Équipe channel.
At the dawn of its second season, which resumes on Monday August 22, the former presenter of “Bachelor, the single gentleman” talks about the new features of his show and his new notoriety.
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TV MAGAZINE. - How do you position "L'Équipe de Greg" in the schedule of the L'Équipe channel for this new season?
Gregory Ascher.
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You don't change a winning team!
We are very happy with the first season, the way the show was born and took over from "L'Équipe d'Estelle".
The idea is to continue the adventure in this line.
That said, I think we will have two start times this season: the official start on Monday August 22 and then that of the World Cup, which will arrive for the first time at the end of the year.
It will be an atypical year.
For us, the idea is to always cover the news but also to have fun around football.
We want to offer a real prime time access event that informs and entertains.
“Football is a source of pleasure, entertainment and amusement.
I hope we produce a good mix in this direction.
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Is this the main lesson of the first season, finally?
I know that when people come home at that time, they are tired and have their worries.
They have to take care of the children and the homework, prepare the food... The idea is to take them out of their daily lives and not offer anything boring.
Football is a source of pleasure, entertainment and amusement.
I hope we produce a good mix in this direction.
We have the people for that, with football columnists, but also Pierre-Antoine Damecour who continues “La petite lucarne” or Antoine Pineau who arrives every Friday …
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The recruitment of comedian Pino was done around a coffee machine, it will be a bit like the spirit of his weekly column, right?
Pino is a comedian who works on Fun Radio, he is part of the M6 group, like me (Grégory Ascher presents La Matinale de RTL2, editor's note) and I see him every day at the end of the corridor.
He's crazy about football and I asked him to give us a review of the week, the columnists and the football news.
I want it to have the eye of the viewer.
And I want him to hit us, me first.
Let's be in derision and self-mockery, without excluding the viewer.
All this should allow him to review what he missed during the week.
Good times.
We have to manage to create more and more of an entertaining program whose
“We do not brief and we do not restrain the columnists.
They come on the show with their points of view.
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How important is the presence of journalist Karim Bennani, the former presenter of "Jour de foot"
on Canal +, by your side?
When I met Karim, we didn't know each other.
We became friends, as if we had known each other for twenty years.
He has a bit of the role I had with Estelle.
Like Dominique Grimault or Benoit Trémoulinas and Ludovic Obraniak, he is one of my main relays when he is around the table.
There are few journalists from the editorial staff of the daily
L'Équipe
who appear in the round table, is this voluntary?
There are still several of them: Vincent Duluc, or Olivier Bossard, Nabil Djellit from the editorial staff of
France Football
... You need a good balance between consultants, coaches and journalists... Loïc Tanzi, who comes from RMC, has joined the editorial staff of
L'Équipe
and will be around us with Djibril Cissé, who is transferred from "L'Équipe du Soir" to "L'Équipe de Greg".
It is a patchwork of about thirty contributors.
What do you think of the controversy over OM initiated around the words of Grégory Schneider in
"
L'Équipe du soir
"
?
Could this happen in "Greg's Team"?
I will not go back on these remarks because I was not there.
Clubs that trigger passion also trigger things like that.
I don't have to comment.
The chain communicated.
Marseilles too.
Here, I do not have to add as much as Grégory Schneider is not in "L'Équipe de Greg".
To answer the question clearly: we do not brief and we do not restrain the columnists.
They come on the show with their points of view.
At no time do I tell them:
"I would like you to say that or to go into that area"
.
You have my word.
They have the themes, they work on their side and they come to the set with their ideas.
I like this freedom.
There are a few safeguards because there are things to respect, but I'm not briefing anyone.
I trust.
“I saw a lot more people coming up to me.
Football allows that, the schedule too.
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How do you imagine that the speeches of Laurie Delhostal and Alicia Dauby could evolve in the future?
I am often told:
"There are women, but not enough..."
Our approach is to seek out the most competent, the most passionate and the best possible people.
Carine Galli remains the joker of the show.
She is also there every week.
Laurie will come once a week.
And Alicia is present daily.
I'm very happy with what she did last year.
She took a good place.
People like her and she's very talented.
The idea is to take advantage of it to give it a wider scope: to enlighten us about the human, the footballer, the club... Teach us things we don't know.
I will try to make his voice even more important this season.
Do you have any other specific goals in mind this season?
Last season, we made historic scores on target and audience share on this niche for the channel.
We will try to do better, in particular thanks to the World Cup.
The goals are also high, but above all we want to keep having fun!
On a personal level, do you feel today that the relationship with the public that follows you on RTL2 and the L'Équipe channel is changing?
I saw many more people coming to meet me.
Football allows that, the schedule too.
In "Greg's Team", we are couch buddies.
Viewers spontaneously come to see me: “
So, Mbappé, where are we?
And the PSG Mercato?
Just today, a gentleman said to me:
"You stop saying bad things about Ronaldo... We have to defend him."
I can see, in fact, that notoriety has evolved quite a bit in one season.