On July 3, 2020, Arthur welcomed a handful of journalists on the set of "District Z". "It's two and a half years of work, I don't want to give too many superlatives because it's pretentious but it's the biggest production I've done in my life. It's the biggest set in the history of French television," he boasted. Very proud of his new creation presented by Denis Brogniart, the animator and producer was personally responsible for the visit of the pharaonic plateau located on the edge of Parc Asterix (Oise).
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On Friday, December 11, they were 5.4 million viewers, or 26.1% of audience share, to attend the launch of the game on TF1. Among them, Alexia Laroche-Joubert. That evening, the blood of the producer of "Fort Boyard" had only made a turn when discovering the images. Not because of the zombies but because, like others, she had seen similarities with the summer game of France 2. Determined to defend herself, she sent Satisfaction, Arthur's production company, a "letter of formal noticedetailing her concerns about format violations". "If an agreement is not reached between the two companies, ALP is ready to take steps towards formal legal action," the letter said.
"That TF1, which is also a partner of "Koh-Lanta", makes us the pleasure of making this baby in the back, well, we can consider that these are the new laws of competition"
Alexia Laroche-Joubert, President of Adventure Line Productions
A legal action that "fell from his beautiful death" according to Alexia Laroche-Joubert. And for good reason, over the weeks, the hearings of the first season had waned. Despite this, TF1 had ordered Arthur a season 2 of "District Z". But after only two episodes, the network had decided to deprogram the following numbers in the face of the catastrophic scores recorded by the game.
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"It's a story that I lived very badly but very, very badly," says the president of Adventure Line Productions. "Nobody expected that because we didn't have these echoes on the concept at all. It was super violent for me. But what the producer still does not digest, two and a half years later, are the accusations of a smear campaign fomented on Twitter. "That we have rivalries between producers, OK. That TF1, which is also a partner of "Koh-Lanta", makes us the pleasure of making this baby in the back, well, we can consider that these are the new laws of competition. But, on the other hand, that we are accused of having made false tweets, it screwed me up, but really. It was very complicated for me. I've been doing this job for 30 years, I think my probity is no longer to prove. And then I'm accused of this thing when I don't even know how to make a "reel", so fake tweets... " she concludes.
