This unpublished series in four episodes of the magazine “1:15 p.m. on Sunday“ (Twitter, #1:15 p.m.), signed Maxime Bénéteau and Fabien Lasserre, with the voice of actor Michel Derville, tells the story of the political programs on the small screen of French television: “Equal Arms”, “Cartes sur table”, “L’Heure de Vérité”, “7 sur 7″… and many others.
If they have long been expected and corseted exercises, they have become over time moments that everyone remembers: verbal jousting, cult replies, excesses… While the eyes of the world are now fixed on the war in Ukraine, the presidential campaign, which had already been largely upset by the pandemic of the coronavirus Covid-19, now seems to be taking a back seat.
The political spectacle is organized
The small screen has become the place of public debate and certain political programs such as “The Hour of Truth”, emblematic of the 1980s, have swung political programs into the era of modernity. Live polls, questions from viewers… The staging is refined, the political spectacle is organized.
The relationship between politics and television continued to evolve in the 1980s and 1990s. The cameras invited themselves into the homes of politicians, politicians were tempted by “infotainment”. And then, their voice multiplied in the 2000s with the rise of continuous news channels…
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