“Touche pas à mon poste” will end in February on C8, Cyril Hanouna evokes “other avenues for afterwards”

End of suspense. According to our information, and as we wrote in October, “Touche pas à mon poste” will end on February 27 with the closure of C8 and will not be transferred to CStar in March, as was a time considered. The announcement was made by Cyril Hanouna and director Lionel Stan to the H2O Productions teams, after a meeting between the producer and the management of the Canal + group. “If they had decided to save TPMP on another channel in the group, we would have had positive signals before that,” analyzes a small part of the program. Now, Cyril was so motivating that it’s still a bit of a blow…”

However, if the story between “Touche pas à mon poste” and C8 will end on Thursday February 27, the host-producer has not said his last word. “He told us that the show would return in September 2025, but without specifying where,” confides a witness. On a Canal + group channel, even if the encrypted channel is preparing to give up its channel 4? On digital, as was envisaged with the announcement of the creation of a platform called BabaTV? On another channel? “Everything seems to be on the table,” says our source, who is expecting a special program this Thursday evening to discuss the future of the program.

Wednesday afternoon, Cyril Hanouna came to greet around fifty demonstrators gathered in front of the Arcom headquarters in Paris (15th) to protest against the closure of C8. “My only bosses are not the channel’s decision-makers, not Arcom, but the public. TV is free entertainment. This is yet another thing that is being taken away from the French. I fight so that TPMP continues. We will continue to do the show until the end of February. And as I said, we are working on other avenues for later. I have a meeting tomorrow (THURSDAY) about this. But don’t worry, you will have your talk show every evening,” he assured his supporters, with a petition bringing together more than a million signatories.

“Touche pas à mon poste” is not the only show to pay the price for the non-renewal of the C8 frequency. As we indicated this Wednesday, the management of the Canal + group has also decided to stop “William à midi”, the daily newspaper that William Leymergie has been piloting since 2017 at midday. According to our information, other stops are still to be planned.