New challenge for Kendji Girac ! In a publication posted on his Instagram account this Tuesday March 12, 2024, the singer reveals that he is the next guest of Raphael of Casabianca In Meeting in unknown land. The winner of the fourth season of The Voice is launching a new challenge, a few years after having participated in The Robinson adventure on TF1, a show in which he went to a desert island, for several days, alongside Gims. This time, it is alone, alongside the survival professional, that Kendji Girac will go to meet nomadic populations, for an adventure which will, for sure, turn his life upside down!
“Guys, I’m stressed. It’s the first time in my life that I’m leaving alone, far from my family, my friends without knowing where I’m going.. But too excited at the idea of discovering A WORLD that I don’t know. So thank you to the whole team for offering me this adventure.” rejoiced the former coach of The Voice Kids on his Instagram post. Kendji fans will, however, have to wait a long time before being able to discover this episode, since another number of Rendez-vous en terre stranger, filmed several months ago already, remains to be broadcast: the guest of this issue is none other than Slimaneand everything suggests that France 2 will broadcast it ahead of the Eurovision competition, in which the singer is preparing to participate.
Broadcast in just one issue per year since 2020, the show Meeting in unknown land has seen its audiences crumble since the departure of Frédéric Lopez in December 2018. If Raphaël de Casabianca achieved an audience success with Vianney in May 2021 in Ethiopia by uniting 5.6 million viewersthe following issue, broadcast in June 2022, who saw Oli fly away without Bigflo in Madagascar, achieved the worst historical score for the show, with 2.8 million followers. The latest issue, broadcast in May 2023, with Jarry in Greenland, went back up the hill, attracting 3.8 million viewers.
A show that is about to celebrate its 20th anniversary
Next December, Meeting in unknown land will celebrate its twentieth anniversary. The show was launched on France 5 on December 26, 2004., with Thierry Lhermitte as first guest. Four numbers were broadcast on channel 5, with Pierre Palmade, Emmanuelle Béart and Muriel Robin, before the show, a victim of its success, was transferred to France 2. It was in the channel’s heyday for a long time, and united until 8.2 million viewers with Zabou Breitman in 2012. The numbers with Virginie Efira, Frédéric Michalak and Arthur also achieved big audience ratings.
Since 2018, France 2 broadcasts a spin-off of the program called Our Unknown Lands, which brings a personality to little-known French lands. However, the audiences are disappointing, and led the public service to downgrade the program to France 3 last November. The number with Sabrina Ouazani in Guyana only convinced 1.29 million faithful…