A page turns to C8, but especially for William Leymergie and his teams. In fact, his show William at noonbroadcast on the eighth channel, should disappear completely in the coming months after Arcom’s decision a few months ago. This is what our colleagues at Parisian this Wednesday, December 18, 2024.
According to the daily, the teams of the daily broadcast at midday were informed of the cessation of it when the channel closed, on February 28, 2025. A program in which many columnists took part including Antoni Ruiz, Caroline Delage, Caroline Munoz, Véronique Mounier, and Caroline Ithurbide.
A show that had difficulty attracting
Launched in September 2017, the show presented by William Leymergie had a lot of trouble finding an audience as our colleagues note. However, they note that William at noon recorded slightly higher scores with “200,000 viewers and 2% audience share, compared to 177,000 on average the previous season (1.7%)”.
Present for years on France Televisionsthe 77-year-old host surprised everyone by arriving on Channel 8. “I considered that my mission at France Télévisions was ending. Télématin was rolling. We couldn’t go any higher. We ended up finding it normal. The success was no longer surprising. I had to leave for people to be surprised.”explained the main interested party to our colleagues.
William Leymergie already ready to bounce back
Although his show William at noon should stop definitively, William Leymergie would not have finished with television. Indeed, according to our exclusive information, he has already found the right fit to bounce back when the C8 next February.
The presenter of 77 should indeed join CNEWS in the coming months. “It wasn’t his initial idea. But there’s no rush of proposals and he also has a pretty tough reputation in the business”reports a sourceEurope 1.
Even if we still don’t know which show William Leymergie should present, a source told us that a slot on CNEWS would have been reserved for him. It remains to be seen whether he will take a slot already occupied by Sonia Mabrouk, Pascal Praud, or even Laurence Ferrari.
