from the Guignols to the Bolloré era… where did the “Canal spirit” go?

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Impertinent, provocative, subversive. Canal+born in 1984, imposes a tone which quickly becomes his brand and which only really survives, in the Vincent Bolloré era, Groland on the encrypted channel and a few flame bearers elsewhere.

” Unfortunately, the Canal spirit is losing momentum. We are almost the last representatives,” laments to theAFP Gustave Kervern, one of the pillars of the adventure Grolandcorrosive for 30 years.

Groland, the Guignols, Nowhere else… Canal+ is a “funfair”

The comedian, who became a screenwriter and director, is a good example of Canal+'s in-house recipe from the beginning: launching young shoots into total freedom.

We had the impression of being in a funfair, where everything was free, where everything was possible.

Jamel Debbouze confirms it in Very first timebook of memories of the talents unearthed at C+ collected by Michel Denisot, former flagship host of the channel.

Jose Garcianow a popular actor, is another Canal baby. Initially room attendant for the star show Nowhere else (where have the Dummies and the Guignols), he is associated with Antoine de Caunes to dynamite the program.

Bolloré signals the end of recess in 2015

The end of recess was whistled in 2015, after the arrival of Vincent Bolloré at the head of parent company Vivendi.

« Vincent Bolloré broke the spirit Canalhe boasts of it, “summarizes for theAFP a source, journalist and former manager of a Canal+ group channel, who requested anonymity.

The conservative billionaire said in February 2015 on France Inter that the Canal spirit is “a little too much derision”. Signature shows disappear one after the other, like Guignols.

In 2020, the dismissal of comedian Sébastien Thoen led to the departure of around thirty employees.

I am absolutely not responsible for anything that happens in a group of this size.

For its anniversary date, November 4, the encrypted channel notably offers “40”, a prime time program presented by Antoine de Caunes, with many talents revealed by the encrypted channel.

With AFP.

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