After 25 years on the air, The Health Magazine would he live his final season ? According to information from Europe 1, the medical talk presented by Marina Carrère d’Encausse since 2000 could leave the public service as early as next July, due to significantly declining audiences. Indeed, if The Health Magazine brought together more than a million viewers daily until 2020, audiences collapsed over the months. In recent days, only 400,000 faithful followed the health advice of Marina Carrère d’Encausse and her band of columnists, including Enora Malagré, Jimmy Mohamed, Gérald Kierzek, Théo Curin and Laurent Collard. But as our colleagues indicate, a second, more unofficial reason would explain this brutal end: the medical show is not produced by France Télévisions, but by Newen, a production company that TF1 bought a few years ago. The magazine could therefore be deleted in favor of a new proposal from September 2024, this time produced in-house.
This judgment reminiscent of the soap operaMore beautiful life, which bowed out in November 2022 amid disagreement between France 3, the broadcaster, and Newen, the producer. The public service wanted to produce in-house, and thus did without contracts binding it to TF1. By stopping The health magazine, France Télévisions is moving a little further away from the spectrum of TF1. Other France Télé programs produced by Newen have been stopped in recent months, such as Vitamin C, It won’t come out of here And Antidote, three other medical shows. However, other proposals are still on the air, such as The secret boxthe broadcast of Faustine Bollaert on France 3. Many series are also produced by Newen, like Cassandra, Candice Renoir and several units of Murders in…
The show has gone through a lot of changes
Launched in 1998 on La Cinquième, The Health Magazine was created by Michel Cymes, Marina Carrère d’Encausse, Benoît Thévenet and Christian Gerin. At its launch, the magazine is presented by Michel Cymes alone, and Marina Carrère d’Encausse is the editor-in-chief. She joined him as host of the program in 2000, and the duo quickly became cult, present in all the Christmas bloopers. In 2004, Benoît Thévenot, co-creator of the program, in turn joined the animation, as a joker for the two owners. At the end of the 2017-2018 season, Michel Cymes decided to leave the presentation of the program, and was followed by Benoît Thévenet. Marina Carrère d’Encausse continues the adventure alone, before recruit Jimmy Mohamed and Emma Strack. Since the start of the 2023 school year, the three hosts have presented the show alternately, Jimmy Mohamed being present from Monday to Friday, alongside Marina Carrère d’Encausse on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays and alongside Emma Strack on Mondays and Tuesdays.