Cyril Hanouna’s project for September at M6 becomes more concrete. “The collaboration is going very well” with the star host, a “team player”, assured his leaders to representatives of journalists, who remain on their guard.
The presidents of the companies of journalists from RTL and M6 had asked for this meeting at the highest level, worried about “often vindictive and sometimes contemptuous statements” with regard to their group by Cyril Hanouna.
The King of the Clash officiated until the end of February on the C8 channel then in March online. Before September he had promised a “media diet” and was only present on the air.
“The work has officially started” around its two future daily entertainment programs, for Fun Radio and the W9 channel, in the M6 group, report staff representatives on Tuesday in an internal message that AFP was able to consult.
If “the choice of columnists is not yet arrested”, “the discussions began around concrete aspects: sets, filming places, editorial line” in particular, said David Larramendy, group president, and Hervé Béroud, information director.
“The fundamentals of the project have remained unchanged from the start: apolitical and without conflicts (…) The collaboration goes very well, in the same spirit as that initially defended”, he was underlined to them. So “there are two postures, believe or not to believe” and “you will have to judge on piece”.
Cyril Hanouna has “an assertive desire to change speeches” and “the host is clear today as a team player,” said David Larramendy and Hervé Béroud, according to these reported remarks.
Its recruitment constitutes “a major strategic opportunity, despite external criticism”, “in particular of TF1 or supporters of Bolloré” from which it has separated, it added.
“Gardening is in place, contractual (but confidential), and protection tools are planned to supervise the project”, which aims to “generate audience”, they insisted.
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The journalists of the M6 group had spoken out at the end of January to a vast majority against his arrival, then said their “vigilance”. Figure of the chain, Karine Le Marchand also said he was “vigilant”, after threatening to leave the group.
At the beginning of March, Cyril Hanouna was already cropped by his future employer after having scratched one of his star animators, Bruno Guillon. “They begged me so that I will go on Fun Radio (…) to have someone who wears the station a little (…) He only has Bruno Guillon,” he launched.
At the end of March at the Séries Mania festival in Lille, Mr. Larramendy had assured that he had “all confidence” in Cyril Hanouna, “a talent as there are almost no more in TV”.
“It is a person who speaks to all audiences,” said the boss, who refuses to make TV “a self-self who no longer speaks to certain categories of population”. In the past, “there have been slippages, things for which we are in total disagreement” and “we told him,” he added.
The animator’s differences have earned a total of 7.6 million euros fine to C8.
The chain, in the giron of the ultra-conservative billionaire Vincent Bolloré, ceased to issue at the end of February after the unprecedented non-renewal of its frequency by the Arcom, the audiovisual regulator.
Over the years, the program “Touche pas à mon poste” (TPMP), hosted by Cyril Hanouna, had taken an increasingly political turn.
Supported to the right and on the far right, boycotted on the left, Cyril Hanouna himself does not spread a candidacy for the Elysée in 2027.
According to a Toluna-Harris interactive poll on potential “outsiders” published on Monday by opinion, 11% of French people indicate that they could vote for him if the presidential election took place next Sunday.
“My great pride is to be in front of Clémence watched” of LFI, credited with a 9%score, tackled Cyril Hanouna on Europe 1 on Monday, where he presents a program in the afternoons until the end of June.
