This is THE big surprise of the start of the school year on France Télévisions. After he retired from the air in 2018, Frédéric Lopez will make his big comeback on France 2. A comeback that even the 55-year-old presenter did not expect.
The news was first announced by The Parisian and quickly confirmed during the France Télévisions press conference on July 6. The former presenter Meeting in unknown land was chosen to brighten up the Sunday afternoons of France 2 viewers. From mid-October, he will offer his new show Sunday in the countryside. He will receive personalities from different universes to speak in a house far from everything.
However, he would never have thought of making his return to television as he confided to our colleagues from TV Star : “I was very much at home in the Cévennes far from any media agitationwithout an interview even though I am very talkative, and I had no intention of showing my face on TV at all.” But Anne Holmes, director of programs at France Télévisions changed the situation.
“She turned my brain. She first came to see me, we chatted, it was very nice but I repeated to her, from the start, that it was not worth her insisting“, continued Frédéric Lopez. But Anne Holmes knew how to touch the presenter – appeared in The torch – in the heart. “She came back to the charge. She spoke to me about my values and by evoking something intergenerational, a value that obsesses me, she touched my heart. Sunday in the countryside, it will be sincerity, humanity, authenticity, inclusion … I offered to do one out of two, she told me that it would be refused. I spoke about it to my team, faithful since my beginnings. They told me that they were able to manage to shoot two hours of programs twice in 48 hours. I said bank“, he concluded.
Thus was born the program that will replace Can’t wait for Sunday. Because as a reminder, Michel Drucker is moving to France 3 with his show next season.