“Le Magazine de la santé” will ultimately remain on the air, but…

TELEVISION – While the oldest PAF game show, Numbers and letterswill stop, another flagship program of France Télévisions will finally continue, for a time threatened.

In an interview for The Sunday Tribune this weekend, the head of programs for public service channels announces the extension of Health Magazine on France 5, a “historical broadcast” of the chain, facing ” the self “ sparked by the announcement last October of its termination at the end of the season.

Stéphane Sitbon-Gomez explains that France Télé is working “to develop a new formula” in which “Jimmy Mohamed will be alone in charge there every day”he who has been present on the set since the start of the 2023 school year.

Marina Carrère d’Encausse, who has presented the show for 24 years, will no longer be there. But she “keeps the presentation of “Health Survey” in the first part of the evening”specifies Stéphane Sitbon-Gomez. “We work with her on social documentaries, like the film on the end of life that she made a few months ago and which had a great impact”he adds.

The revolt of personalities from the show

In recent months, Michel Cymes and Marina Carrère d’Encausse had not hesitated to openly express their disagreement with the announced end of the show in June. On the set of C to you on April 18, Michel Cymes, the doctor and former co-presenter of the program, had a rant.

“The shutdown of the “Health Magazine” yes, I am very angry, Marina is also very angry, because we are a collateral victim of a war between the majority shareholder of the production house, who is TF1, and France Télévisions, because there was a complaint from TF1 against France Télévisions…”he lamented.

Faced with the announcement of the end of the program, around a hundred health figures also signed a forum to oppose it, including the former Minister of Health Agnès Buzyn and the emergency doctor Patrick Pelloux.

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