Gilles Bouleau’s new joker, Jean-Baptiste Boursier, takes the reins of TF1’s 8 p.m.

At the head of LCI’s morning show, Jean-Baptiste Boursier delays waking up during the Christmas holidays, to present the 8 p.m. news on TF1.

“What matters to me is proximity to people“, the journalist Jean-Baptiste Boursier, who has become Gilles Bouleau’s joker, will take the helm of the 8 p.m. news on TF1 from Monday, December 23. It is on All Saints’ Day that the presenter of the LCI morning show for a year and a half, is appeared in the station for his first news broadcasts. Having worked on the iTélé and BFM TV news channels, he takes his mission very seriously.it’s a meeting which is a monument, we try to take the greatest possible care of it because there are six million people watching it“. In this very codified exercise, he reveals that he was “welcomed with great respect, care” and that from the first news, he was able to put his stamp on the choice, the angles and the way of constructing certain subjects. “When we present 8 p.m. on TF1, we are responsible for it. My job is to highlight that of the editorial staff. You also have to invest“, he confides.

“When you have the chance to have a morning show on LCI and from time to time, the 8 p.m. show on TF1, you just have to take advantage.”

Jean-Baptiste Boursier

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Jean-Baptiste Boursier doesn’t know if he has a style, in any case, being close to people is a priority and for that he always tries to ask himself the questions that people ask: “If it concerns me, it concerns people“. “I really see myself as a link, as a relay runner he continues between what happens in the world, very close or very far from home, and those who watch us“. An exercise that is no different from the one he practices every morning on LCI, it’s a new combo that he knows how to appreciate at its true value: “I’m lucky, there is 8 p.m. on TF1 and the morning show on LCI. I’m spoiled“.

At the helm of LCI’s morning show since the start of the 2023 school year, it has progressed over one year with 120 000 viewers on average in November, or 4.5% audience share. Facing her, her internal competitor “Bonjour” on TF1 with Bruce Toussaint. A situation which does not bother Jean-Baptiste Boursier at all since, according to him, “It is a progression which is very significant, very encouraging and which is proof that we can have two mornings which coexist in the same group because they are two products which are different“. “We really have a morning show of expertise, very topical, even if there is humor and a smile, and the TF1 morning show is about proximity, it’s about service“. “There’s room for both“, he concludes.