Nearly a million spectators are expected on site, and four times more in front of their television sets. Last year, France 2 largely dominated the New Year's Eve audiences for the transition to 2024, with 4.19 million viewers, or 30.3% of the public, with a peak of 8.17 million people at midnight, for an audience share of 58%! Building on this success, the channel is relying on the same recipe this evening.
The capital Paris, theater of live performance
This Tuesday, December 31, 2024, Stéphane Bern will return to the Champs-Élysées to end the year and start 2025 in the best possible way with the city of Paris: in show! The event will be broadcast live on France 2 and on france.tv, and the program is very busy, since many artistic disciplines will be in the spotlight this evening for several hours. A live show which will take place in several emblematic Parisian places to pay tribute to the heritage of France. “We want an even more eventful program than last year“, proudly announces the program director of France Télévisions, Stéphane Sitbon-Gomez, in Le Parisien today.
Dozens of artists and two highlights to close the evening
Several troupes of artists will follow one another to put on the show: the Cirque Phénix, the Paradis Latin, the Folies Gruss or even 50 dancers from the Moulin-Rouge for “an exceptional painting at the foot of the Arc de Triomphe“. Many singers will also be present: David Hallyday, Chimène Badi and 100 singers, The Totalement 80 troupe, Mixed collective, Lio, Ceronne, Dany Brillant, Titouan from Eurovision Junior with Petites Mains Symphoniques, La Garde Republican, Imagination, Kendji Girac, Jenifer, Michel Fugain, the Sun King troupe, Yanns, Jean-Louis Aubert, Santa, Chico and the Gypsies, Amir, Keblack and Franglish, Eddy de Pretto, K-maro, La Petite Culotte… From 11:50 p.m., a 3D video mapping projection show “epic” will take place, just before the midnight countdown which will launch the famous fireworks display at the Arc de Triomphe. The latter will also last ten minutes.
