“Quelle Époque”, “C à vous”… France Télévisions will decline its broadcasts at the Cannes Film Festival

The public audiovisual group, media partner of the festival for two years, also has the ambition “to interest the French who will not go to Cannes, but will have access to films that they would never have seen otherwise”.

France Télévisions announced Tuesday April 23 that it would decline several of its flagship shows on the Croisette, from Léa Salamé’s talk show “Quelle Époque” to Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine’s daily show “C à vous”, to cover Cannes festival.

The public audiovisual group, which replaced Canal+ as the festival’s media partner two years ago, is renewing without major upheaval its system which attracted a total of 28.2 million viewers in 2022 and 34.9 million last year. Among the few new features this year, the arrival of “Quelle Époque”, the weekly talk show piloted by Léa Salamé.

More anecdotally, the dog in the film Anatomy of a fallwho won the Palme d’Or last year before making his way to the Oscars, will return to the Croisette to conduct interviews with stars, voiced by the voice of comedian Raphaël Mezrahi.

The cinema show “Beau Geste”, presented by Pierre Lescure (who knows the Cannes Festival well having been its president from 2014 to 2022), will also be relocated to Cannes and the managers of France Télévisions have also clarified that It would be renewed next year.

Beyond the broadcasts, a program of films

France Télévisions will again broadcast the opening and closing ceremonies, the latter being brought forward to 7 p.m. The mistress of ceremonies this year is the actress Camille Cottin. The public audiovisual group aims “to interest the French who will not go to Cannes, but will have access to films that they would otherwise never have seen”, underlined Stéphane Sitbon-Gomez, director of antennas and programs at France Télévisions, during a press conference.

Beyond the broadcasts, a whole program of films is planned, in the group’s vast catalog, on the antennas and its France.tv platform. The public group does not communicate on the investment represented by its partnership with the Cannes Film Festival, but emphasizes that the budget remains “in a low water level equivalent or lower than in recent years”, with a single technical team and a single shared set for all broadcasts.