This should have been a great cinema session for TMC viewers. This Wednesday, November 27, the channel rebroadcast the successful comedy “The First Name”, released in theaters in 2012. Unfortunately, two successive bugs tarnished the show and left those who had chosen to spend their evening in the company of Patrick wanting more. Bruel, Valérie Benguigui and their acolytes. After the first commercial break, around 10 p.m., the feature film suddenly returned to the very beginning and its opening scene, instead of starting where it left off. A hiccup which aroused the annoyance of viewers. “It's total amateurism to restart the film from the beginning. Thanks for ruining our evening“, testified one of them on X (ex-Twitter). “Did you only pay half the rights to return the film to the beginning after 45 minutes?” asked another ironically.
“A technical problem” at the origin of these broadcast bugs
Their anger increased a little later in the evening when during the following commercial break, TMC completely abandoned the broadcast of the sequel to the film to launch “Barbaque” with Fabrice Éboué and Marina Foïs, thus depriving viewers of the end of this dinner turning into a fiasco. Faced with this exceptional situation, the channel shared a banner message to explain this sudden change in programming. “Due to a technical problem, we are unable to broadcast the continuation of your film 'The First Name'. Your evening continues with the film 'Barbaque'. We apologize for the inconvenience caused”we could read. However, the group has not yet communicated on social networks.
More than 700,000 viewers deprived of the end of “First Name”
This incident, however, had no impact on the hearing since 717.000 amateurs, or 4,0% of the public and 6,3% of FRDA-50, were in front of TNT channel 10, which placed TMC in fourth place among the most followed channels this Wednesday evening. It was once again the audience episode of “France has incredible talent” which came out on top in the audiences with 2,95 millions of faithful, just in front of the new France 2 series “That’s Paris!”.
