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Broadcast live every Saturday, Léa Salamé's talk show is exceptionally absent from the program schedule and replaced by a documentary. We explain why.
To the hundreds of thousands of viewers who are thinking of meeting Léa Salamé and her team this evening for a new issue of “Quelle époque!”, you will have to wait until next Saturday, the day of the winter solstice and the start of the school holidays, to see your show. France 2 has in fact made the decision to cancel its weekly talk show, thus postponing its broadcast to next week, after the special “100% logical: the answer is before your eyes”.
What is the reason for this unexpected decision? The programming, on TF1, ofElection Miss France which we can assure, without taking any major risks, will record a new audience record. In December 2024, 7.54 million viewers, or 41.9% of the public, attended the first part of the show, broadcast between 9 p.m. and midnight, according to Médiamétrie. So the answer is in the question.
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Popular comedy in the spotlight
There is no point in setting up an expensive live broadcast and bringing in an audience and especially guests who would not be listened to or not listened to enough. The channel therefore opted to broadcast the entire “And that makes you laugh?”a documentary miniseries in four episodes which aims to tell the story of France through the prism of persistence, since the 1950s, and even more since the success of Horns in the mid-1960s, of a true French school of popular comedy.
In the cinema or on television, “French-style” comedy has constituted, for nearly 60 years, a distorting mirror appreciated by spectators. Through a thematic breakdown, this documentary series tells the story of popular French comedy and offers an x-ray of French society. Comedian duos, in particular, which operate on the complementarity of opposites, have made the heyday of the genre, whether with Louis de Funès and Bourvil, Gérard Depardieu and Pierre Richard or other more contemporary tandems.
A short and funny history of France (and the French) through the lens. A new series, signed Alexia Gaillard.
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