With the end of C8, what future for Cyril Hanouna and “TPMP” in 2025?

TELEVISION – And after? Following Arcom's decision not to renew its DTT frequency on the Canal+ group channel, C8 will stop broadcasting on February 28, 2025. The channel's flagship program presented by Cyril Hanouna will therefore be broadcast. stop, at least on this frequency. So what about the program, its columnists, and above all, its star presenter, “Baba”?

This is the question that is undoubtedly being asked by the approximately 1 to 2 million French people who, every evening or almost, sit in front of their television at 6:50 p.m. to follow on TPMPits analyzes of TV shows and debates on various current issues.

In July, the “audiovisual policeman”, Arcom, delivered its verdict, and announced that it would deprive DTT C8 and NRJ12 of their frequencies. A decision that the Audiovisual and Digital Communication Regulatory Authority then confirmed in a definitive press release published on December 12. The summary appeals filed by the two channels before the Council of State were also rejected on December 30. There no longer seems to be any alternative, apart from a hearing “on the merits” of which Cyril Hanouna himself believes that the outcome will not be favorable to him, and will not be known until the end of February. It now remains to be seen which exit door(s) are available to the teams of Don't touch my post pour 2025.

TPMP resurrected by Cyril Hanouna?

If Cyril Hanouna is the face of C8's flagship show, he is not its only architect. On Thursday, December 19, according to information from Parisianthe host would have brought together the employees of his production company H2O to announce that TPMP would stop a little more than two months later, on Thursday February 27, 2025, the day before the end of C8. During this same meeting, again according to our colleagues, Cyril Hanouna would have advanced the creation of a possible new show (or the return of TPMP) for the month of September. He would also have encouraged them to look for work elsewhere.

The same evening of December 19, however, on the set of TPMPCyril Hanouna provided details on this meeting at H2O and on the email sent by himself and the general director of the company Lionel Stan, to all employees. The host read this letter on air which states: “ Cyril and H2O continue to do everything so that our TPMP show can be resurrected. » The message also claims that the company “ if and when new opportunities arise, will at the same time give priority to all those who have participated in our programs since this thunderclap that was the Arcom decision ».

Then, “Baba” then rectified the situation and laid the groundwork for the continuation, which could, according to him, be very rapid: “ We know that we are going to have, that we are going to do something, that's for sure. Now, it can be March 15th, normally we do everything so that it is March 3rd. (…) There will be a show for sure. Just a quick question of dates, we are in the process of seeing that. For that you need a special signal, but there you go. »

That's for the “when”, which nevertheless remains very approximate. For the “how”, the facilitator was clear and affirmed that this new project in gestation (or resurrection) would be done in collaboration once again “with the Canal+ antennas”, flagship of Bolloré's media empire.

H-TV, CStar, Canal+ ?

For the “where”, several options are possible, starting with that of a transfer to another channel in the group. As recalled Teleramathe new agreement signed by the CStar channel, one of the few in the Canal+ group with CNews, which will remain on TNT, allows it to host an entertainment program. According to The Parisian However, this option is no longer on the table and it is more than unlikely that Cyril Hanouna and his teams will set up shop on TNT channel 17. In particular, the excessive cost that the addition of TPMP on the chain grid. According to our colleagues, CStar could still choose to “save” a few rare C8 shows like The Animals of the 8 et Only the truth counts of Bataille and Fontaine.

It is also impossible to imagine a decline in TPMP and Cyril Hanouna on the Canal+ channel, it will stop broadcasting on TNT from June (as well as Canal+ Cinéma, Canal+ Sport, Planète), following a decision announced by the group, accompanied by the dismissal of 250 people .

One of the options put forward by The Parisian is the web. Cyril Hanouna has been working, according to our colleagues, since the start of the school year in September on the creation of a digital channel, temporarily titled H-TV. This could be visible on Dailymotion, but also via MyCanal and offer subscribers/Internet users content produced by its company including TPMP. The thorny question of the cost of producing a daily “TV” program remains to be resolved, but without the advertising revenue that goes with it.

If the future of TPMP is still dotted, Cyril Hanouna will continue to make his voice heard whatever happens. The host remains on the air on Europe 1 every afternoon in the show “ We walk on our heads “. For the rest, you still have to wait.

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