The place left vacant in the position of joker of the 20 Hours of TF1 following the departure of Julien Arnaud for France 2 is no longer vacant: the channel has just made official the name of the new joker of Gilles Bouleau and has even announced the date of his first newspaper.
End of suspense in the cozy corridors of TF1. Since this summer and the surprise departure of Julien Arnaud to resume Telematin on France 2, his place as joker in the 20 Hours of TF1 during Gilles Bouleau’s absence remained vacant. “Thierry Thuillier (the channel’s news director, editor’s note) regretted my choice but he understood it and wished me well. It was all done in ten days.”explained Julien Arnaud to our colleagues at TV 2 Weeks. After testing with around ten journalists, the front page has made its choice. And his choice fell on a face now familiar within the TF1 group news.
20 Hours of TF1: who is Gilles Bouleau’s new joker?
It is in fact Jean-Baptiste Boursier who was chosen to become Gilles Bouleau’s jokeras the first channel has just made it official with the Parisian. And the news boss of the TF1 group is full of praise for the qualities of the lucky winner, aged 41 and who spent most of his career on BFMTV before arriving on LCI in 2023. “It exudes great solidity and is reassuring for the public. He is also precise in his launches and we know that he will be able to integrate into the TF1 editorial team and highlight his work“, underlines Thierry Thuillier.
Jean-Baptiste Boursier new joker of the 20 Hours of TF1: on what date will his first news broadcast?
Jean-Baptiste Boursier will take his first steps as joker in the 20 Hours of TF1 on October 21, during the All Saints’ Day holidays and therefore the absence of Gilles Bouleau. This new position at the head of the most followed TV news every evening is a great promotion for the journalistpresenter until now of the LCI morning show. A morning show which had seen the arrival of new internal competition with the launch of the morning show Bonjour ! on TF1 led by Bruce Toussaint, just a few months after Jean-Baptiste Boursier took office. The news professional will keep his morning show on channel 26, but he will be replaced during his temporary work on TF1’s 20 Heures. At this time, the name of his or her replacement has not yet been known.
