Last minute recruitment! In an announcement made to Pure Media this Monday, October 16, Michel Field, Director of Culture and Live Entertainment at France Télévisions, announces the arrival of Claire Chazal on the airwaves of France 2. The 66-year-old journalist, who was ousted by TF1 eight years ago, will join the second channel in a few weeks, at the head of a show that Anne-Sophie Lapix knows well since she presented it before her. Indeed, the cult show THELarge Chessboardhosted between 1972 and 1989 by Jacques Chancel And relaunched in 2018 with Anne-Sophie Lapixhas been hosted since September 2021 by Claire Chazal on France 3. But the show will transfer in the coming weeks to France 2, where it had also taken up residence upon its return five years ago, before finally being transferred to France 3, due to lack of sufficient audiences …
The show will finally make its big return on France 2 in the coming months, with two new shows filmed on November 15 and 16, and which will be dedicated to Édith Piafon the occasion of the 60th anniversary of his death, and to Raymond Devos. “We are taking risks on France 2 bonuses, perhaps more than before” recognizes Michel Field, who tried to launch last year The French’s favorite bookas a bonus, but which suffered a bitter failure by attracting only 799,000 viewers (4.8%). The hearings of the Large Chessboard are not stronger since last June, on France 3, one of the last unpublished numbers of the program did even less, by bringing together only 728,000 viewers. Confidential audiences of course, but France Télévisions believes in this cultural program, and in Claire Chazal!
She returns to France 2, 30 years after “Télématin”
Arrival on France Télévisions in January 2016, just a few weeks following his ouster from TF1, Claire Chazal presented the cultural magazine of France 5 until 2019 FREE ENTRANCEthen replaced by Passage of the arts, which she also presented until it stopped a few months ago. We were also able to see her host Classical Music Victories on France 3, and Soyons Claire on France Info. She has also been an occasional columnist of We are not in bed during her last season on France 2. By hosting bonuses on the channel, the journalist is making her comeback on France 2, thirty years old after having presented the night’s newspapers and Telematin !