It’s a recruitment that was intended to be full of promise. Last spring, Marc-Olivier Fogiel, then general director of BFMTV, was delighted with the arrival ofEric Brunet. The latter had been poached from LCI where he worked with Emilie Broussouloux to join the continuous news channel the following August. At the age of 60, he was given a new appointment broadcast from Monday to Thursday between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. and initially called Freedom, Equality, Brunet! before finally being renamed 20h Brunet. By sharing the poster with Alice Darfeuillewhich already occupied this time slot, the goal was for him to “decipher the news with his inimitable tone“, teased BFMTV with enthusiasm. Unfortunately, the sauce did not take!
The game of musical chairs resumes on BFMTV
According to information from Parisian published this Tuesday, December 3, the adventure is already ending for Eric Brunet who should present his last broadcasts at the end of December. And his replacement has been found! It is Maxime Switek who would have been designated to succeed him in the evening, he who knows this time slot well but who had abandoned it when Bruce Toussaint left last January and has been embodying the 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. position since then. Fabien Namias, new boss of BFMTV since the purchase of the channel by Rodolphe Saadé, must now work to find the right person to run the morning in his place. Always according to The Parisian, Julie Hammett would be expected to get her place back, as soon as she returns from her maternity leave. Because it must be remembered that the 35-year-old journalist left the station she occupied from 10 p.m. to midnight in September to prepare for the arrival of her first baby, who she is expecting with a Marseille lawyer who we do not know. identity. Her interim position is currently held by Perrine Storme.
This significant and unexpected change, only four months after the arrival of Eric Brunet, comes in any case a few days after the revelations of The Letter who argued that Rodolphe Saadé was not not satisfied with the latest hearings and therefore required a reorganization within the channel and in the programming schedule from the start of 2025. Eric Brunet and his show were apparently already concerned, having been set up by the former management. Neither he nor Maxime Switek have yet commented on the subject.
