Nobody expected it! On May 23, Michel Drucker, after 24 years of hosting the Sunday segment of France 2, announced in the newspaper “Le Parisien” that he was moving the red sofa from “Vivement Dimanche” to France 3. And the public did followed the 80-year-old presenter on this new channel offering a slightly modified concept. And it was Frédéric Lopez who was chosen by the production of the second public service channel to take over! “A huge honor” for the famous presenter who made the good times of “Voyage en terre historique” but also a real surprise, as he confided to our colleagues from “TV Mag” in an interview granted last Thursday, October 20: “It scared me at first to be very exposed again, and my first instinct was to refuse. Then I spoke to my team who were thrilled (…) I also immediately called Michel Drucker to find out if he was satisfied with his box”, he specifies. Adding, however, that “it’s also very intimidating” for him to return to television by occupying the box of a man he is extolling: “I have great admiration for him. Michel Drucker has always been benevolent, even when it was not fashionable.”
“I remember Marc-Olivier Fogiel or Thierry Ardisson manhandling their guests”
Because the host, always very concerned about the well-being of his guests, as we could see in particular in his program “The unexpected parenthesis”, knows that the PAF has long preferred biting presenters, often confusing their dumbfounded guests. And who have subsequently become more tender in their interviews, following the evolution of the times. He specifies in fact in this sense: “I remember Marc-Olivier Fogiel or Thierry Ardisson who manhandled their guests and who finally also became so, the first collecting their confidences on a sofa and the second crying each time. he was interviewing someone on Canal+.” And to conclude by paying tribute to his mentor: “Michel was a model for me in the way he received people. His benevolence has always inspired me.” In his new program, “Un dimanche à la campagne”, a concept very close to his former “Parenthèse”, Frédéric Lopez will not derogate from his reputation as a benevolent host, loving meetings and intimate discussions around a fire. chimney. A character trait that had prompted Anne Holmes, director of programs at France Télévisions, to ask him to return to the air… An indiscretion that he had revealed to “Télé Star” on July 15, adding that she had done proof of good arguments: “She spoke to me about my values and by evoking something intergenerational, a value that obsesses me, she touched my heart.” So let’s wish Frédéric Lopez a positive and winning return to television with “A Sunday in the Country”, a show that looks like him…
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