The channel rebroadcast the beginning of the film twice before broadcasting another feature film altogether. Internet users did not hide their astonishment.
With more than 3.3 million entries when it was released in 2012, The First Name is one of the popular French feature films. Its rebroadcasts on television therefore generally attract very good audiences. This Wednesday, November 27, TMC offered the film on its channels but nothing happened as planned.
If the broadcast began under the best auspices, the advertising break, around 10 p.m., marked the first glitch. After the advertisement, viewers were, in fact, surprised to discover the beginning of the film again.
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A problem which did not fail to make Internet users react on X. “I am in a spatio-temporal rift where TMC has just relaunched The First Name from the start at 10:11 p.m.? »wrote one of them. “At any time TMC only bought the rights to half of the film “The First Name” and they gave us the beginning after the ad neither seen nor known” ; “The TMC manager who plays with the buttons to restart the film “Le Prénom” after the commercial… After 45 minutes…. Thank you TMC”; “So there, on TMC, I was watching “Le Prénom”. The advert arrives (we know), end of the advert and… the film starts again at the very beginning. It’s worse than TF1 ads, it’s a space-time loop”wrote others.
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However, the viewers' ordeal was not over and the sequence of events could not calm their annoyance, quite the contrary. A second commercial break stopped them in their tracks with a lingering question: would the film continue? “The best thriller of the year 2024, what will happen after the next ad”quipped an Internet user at that time. “Admit, we all don’t care about the film now, we want to know what’s going to happen when the commercial breaks », laughed another.
And the latter did not think they were saying so well since once the publicity had passed, TMC simply stopped broadcasting the film The First Name to program the feature film Barbaque with Marina Foïs and Fabrice Éboué!
The channel then scrolled an information banner at the bottom of the screen indicating: “ Due to a technical problem, we are unable to broadcast the rest of your film The First Name. Your evening continues with the film Barbaque. We apologize for the inconvenience caused.”
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A final turnaround which finally exasperated TMC viewers. “Is this a TMC joke? After the double start of First name we don't even have the ending? »complained an Internet user on X. “TMC who are the stupidest, the programmers or us for watching the beginning of a film twice hoping to one day see the end? »said another annoyance.
Some chose humor to make the pill go down. “What did you do last night? I looked The First Name on TMC. I looked The First Name on TMC. I looked The First Name south TMC “, wrote someone on X referring to the film A day without end with Bill Murray in which a journalist sees the same day repeat itself every day.
TMC did not react to this technical bug but, despite this grotesque evening, the audiences were not as bad as one might have thought. The first two parts of First name were thus followed by 717,000 viewers or 4% of the public.
