After Canal+, a young forty-year-old, it is TF1 which is preparing to celebrate an important anniversary. Created on January 6, 1975, the first channel will celebrate its half-century of existence and has planned a special evening, entitled “TF1, 50 years together” to put on its most beautiful outfit of light. On Tuesday January 21, Gilles Bouleau and Isabelle Ithurburu will turn the pages of an album of memories filled with fifty years of news and as many cult programs. For 2.5 hours, the two masters of ceremonies will launch unforgettable archives, sequences engraved in everyone's mind and rare images broadcast on the front page over the last five decades. The opportunity to vibrate again in front of the “After that, we can die peacefully” released by Thierry Roland after the victory of the Blues in the final of the 1998 World Cup, to remember with emotion the shock announcement of the death of Lady Di, or to retrace the disaster of Amoco Cadiz, which generated the worst oil spill in history.
50 years of archive images and cult shows
This new documentary will of course allow us to unearth the flagship programs with which several generations of French people grew up, and which are now inseparable from the TF1 group. A way of showing that from “Casimir” and “Baywatch” to “Dancing with the Stars”, society and its trends have changed significantly in fifty years of developments on the small screen. Its hosts (Arthur, Nikos Aliagas, Denis Brogniart) have also gained experience since their first timid steps on the sets, as loyal viewers will discover. An appointment has been made for this retrospective which promises a guaranteed look of old age.
In January 2015, Gilles Bouleau was already faithful to the post for the retrospective of the first forty years, but the presenter of the 8 p.m. news was assisted at the time by Christophe Dechavanne. The troublemaker has since left for public service, playing permanent columnists alongside Léa Salamé in “Quelle époque!”, and was replaced by Isabelle Ithurburu. The presenter of “50' inside”, who hoped to be able to host major entertainment in prime time, will therefore be served. “I can see that my notoriety is increasing but people mainly approach me to talk to me about rugby”confides the Paloise in “Télé Cable Star” about its transfer to the front page. With her accomplice, she is ready to take you into the time machine.
