When the credits by Gérard Gesina and Jean-Claude Pierric sound, any TF1 viewer knows that the weekend is over.
No more waking up to football results, singing with Jacques Martin or laughing at “Video Gag”.
With "7 sur 7", seriousness takes back its rights.
The political program on the front page does not conclude the week: it launches the next one.
In the 1980s and 1990s, all the political personnel rushed into the studios to confront (the politicians) or admire (the stars) Anne Sinclair.
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However, if the audiovisual memory consecrated the journalist and her Mohair sweaters (which according to her own admission represented only 1% of her Sunday outfits) as the face of the show, this politico-media adventure had begun before her.
The concept was born from Jean-Louis Burgat, Erik Gilbert and Frédéric Boulay.
The program was set up in 1981 first on Tuesday or Saturday evening.
In 1983, place at the strategic Sunday 7 p.m.
Compared to its predecessors or its competitors, "7 sur 7" innovates by inviting stars (we are not yet talking about "people").
One of Burgat's feats of arms?
The legendary 500 franc note burned by Serge Gainsbourg to complain about taxation in France.
In 1984, after the departure of the creators for Canal+, Anne Sinclair and Jean Lanzi succeeded them.
Trendy but popular
The Sinclair magic works masterfully.
“7 sur 7” is not a political program;
it's an extremely personalized American-style “show”.
She invents Oprah Winfrey.
Face to face, eye to eye, sometimes tense, rarely bland.
An institution: do not miss the show at the risk, the next day, of not being able to participate in the conversation of the coffee machine.
Where "The Hour of Truth", broadcast on Sundays at noon, purrs and becomes so conventional, "7 out of 7" is trendy, but popular.
This meeting regularly borders on ten million viewers.
Politicians of all persuasions - except Jean-Marie Le Pen who is boycotted by the journalist who is replaced when it is necessary to question him - come to comment on the news;
international pundits come to compare the news;
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One Sunday evening Jacques Delors announces that he will not be a presidential candidate in 1995. The left is in mourning.
Another Sunday, Patrick Bruel warns of the danger of the National Front.
"Anne, my sister Anne, don't you see anything coming."
Another evening, she attacks Mitterrand head-on on his “friendships and dating” from the Second World War.
We are in 1989, five years before Pierre Péan's book.
On December 8, 1991, she "brutalizes" Gorbachev: "But what are you the president of this evening?"
TV moments that still resonate just like this last show where she is her own guest to take stock of the 13 years at the head of the program - the appointment of her then husband, Dominique Strauss Kahn, at Bercy forces her to leave the antenna.
The audiences, on the decline, did not help her.
Michel Field and Ruth Elkrief will try to make Queen Anne forget.
Without success.
It will be necessary to wait until 2000 for TF1 finds the martingale with the news magazine, "Sept à deux".
Less glamorous, less controversial, less “eighties”.
But general public.
The times are changing.
What remains of our pre-political evenings?
A certain nostalgia for a demanding news program carried by a true journalistic star.
Finally, it was Sunday evening.
