Following the death of Michel Blanc on the night of Thursday to Friday, TF1 is in turn shaking up its program schedule. Instead of Batman, the channel will broadcast the cult comedy The Bronzed, in which the actor played the indescribable and unforgettable Jean-Claude Dusse.
Michel Blanc died unexpectedly on the night of Thursday to Friday October 4, 2024, following a heart attack that occurred after an allergic reaction during a medical examination. Barely hours after the announcement of his death, France 2 had urgently canceled Captain Marleau to pay tribute to him on Friday evening with the film I find you very beautiful, and other channels had also announced changes to their programs for the coming days. This Saturday, TF1 in turn announced that it was going to break its grid to salute the memory of Michel Blanc. And to do this, the private channel decided to sacrifice a film previously unseen on television and particularly anticipated, to honor the film which made the actor a star: The Bronzedcult comedy from 1978 where Michel Blanc plays a certain Jean-Claude Dusse.
The Bronzed and Michel Blanc replace The Batman and Robert Pattinson on TF1
This Sunday October 6, 2024, TF1 had planned to broadcast for the first time The Batman by Matt Reeves, an action film released in 2022 in which Robert Pattinson plays the hero in the bat costume. A program right in the cinema news while Joker: Folie à deux by Todd Phillips, centered on the villain of the same DC Comics universe, has just been released in theaters. But after the death of Michel Blanc, the private channel has just announced the replacement of this feature film released in 2022 by The Bronzed, a multi-broadcast film that we will never get tired of. This first film in the franchise, directed by Patrice Leconte, recounts the amorous and zany adventures of a group of tourists and staff at a vacation club in Ivory Coast. We thus discover the tempestuous Nathalie (Josiane Balasko), the very self-confident Jérôme (Christian Clavier), Gigi (Marie-Anne Chazel), Christiane (Dominique Lavanant), the seductive host Popeye (Thierry Lhermitte) and of course the flirtatious loses Jean-Claude Dusse, played by Michel Blanc, who has a series of struggles and cult replicas.
Jean-Claude Dusse, a hilarious French character who has become a symbol
Jean-Claude Dusse has become iconic over time, with unrivaled replicas. Tanned people go skiing filmed in Val d’Isère also had a resounding success in 1979 with notably a singing Jean-Claude Dusse When will I see you again, wonderful country? stuck on a chairlift in the middle of the night. Patrice Leconte met again with the whole gang in 2006 in Les Bronzés 3: Friends for lifewhich made less of an impression.
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