This decision is part of the budget cuts made during the last year at -, explains the broadcaster. It was the television management that made the decision, for this program which was produced in collaboration with the radio.
“It hurt me a lot, but we will have done it 15 years in a row. Every year, it was a beautiful gift,” designer, author and presenter Philippe Laguë told me, informed of the news at the end of spring.
He nevertheless specifies that there will indeed be a special end-of-year edition ofSee you next week on the radio.
Satire of the events which marked the last year, See you next year gave a festive feel to the weekly edition, by featuring the various characters and personalities played by the team’s imitators.
Last year, the show brought together Pierre Verville, Michèle Deslauriers, Benoit Paquette, Véronique Claveau and Dominic Paquet around Philippe Laguë.
Jean-René Dufort will now have 90 minutes for his end-of-year review. (Archives -)
On the evening of December 31 on ICI Télé, the show will be replaced by Behind the scenes of Live on New Year’s Daypresented at 8:30 p.m., immediately after France Beaudoin’s end-of-year special, broadcast at 7 p.m.
Now lasting an hour and a half, Infoman 2024 will be broadcast at 9:30 p.m. rather than 10 p.m. as in the past. An advantage for Jean-René Dufort’s team, which every year has great difficulty condensing its segments into an hour. Hoping this doesn’t dilute the content.
The untouchable Bye Bye 2024 keeps its 11 p.m. slot.
It was through a combination of circumstances, in 2009, thatSee you next year found herself on TV. Remember, this was the year after the Bye Bye maudit of 2008, which temporarily sounded the death knell for this humorous magazine.
The broadcaster then had the idea of presenting the radio show of Philippe Laguë and his band on TV, but on December 30, so as not to suffer comparisons with the Bye Byewhich has an infinitely higher budget.
“I called it the Bye Bye poor people! We didn’t have the sets, the makeup of Bye Bye and everything else, it remained a radio show,” recalls Philippe Laguë.
After having proven itself despite a bare presentation, See you next year was added to the December 31 programming a few years later.
For its last edition last year, the show attracted 1,806,000 viewers on the evening of December 31, compared to 1,988,000 in 2022, according to Numeris.
Among the other cuts announced by -, let us recall the withdrawal of magazines 5 chefs in my kitchen et Enjoyas well as significant cuts in the Mordu culinary platform. We also removed episodes from the games Silence, let’s play! et Question of judgmentamong others.
