In the 90s and early 2000s, Laurent Fontaine and Pascal Bataille formed one of the most famous duos on the small screen. From the big tower of TF1, the two animators have produced and hosted cult shows like There’s no photo or There’s only the truth that counts. The latter, a real phenomenon, generated phenomenal audiences for a second part of the evening.
A program in simple format. One person asks the production to invite another person on set to “make an important statement to them. Before entering the set, the person invited has no idea of the reason for their invitation, nor of the person who wishes to speak to them. At this time, the two people are separated by a curtain and can only see each other through two television screens. This allows the guest to know the person who wished to meet him. A discussion then ensues and the guest explains what he had to say. This can concern a family reunion, a declaration of love, reunion of childhood friends, etc. The guest then decides whether or not they want to meet that person and have a chat.
Back on C8, the show reacts again. And in particular Jacques Pradel, former star host of TF1 who confided in Jordan de Luxe. “They make me laugh but they’ve annoyed me a bit in the past.”, he explains about the return to the air of Pascal Bataille and Laurent Fontaine. “But because after the end of “Perdu de vue” there are still a certain number of people who said to themselves ‘Ah but in “Perdu de vue” there was also a reunion. And they still hit us with a few dozen or hundreds of reunions, but lost a bit of the sense of what it represented on our show. Well they’re not my enemies and they’re not my friends either and we don’t see each other much but we know each other well.“, he specifies before concluding: “But why am I going to give them lessons? Nothing was fabricated in “Lost Sight”…“
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