This is one of the biggest projects of Stéphane Bernon which he has been working for several months, but France Televisions just refused him… As he revealed this Thursday, September 14, 2023 at Figaro, Stéphane Bern will not be able to count on its public service bosses to create its television series dedicated to the British royal family. In fact, the host of History Secrets and of Let yourself be guided has been refining a series for several months in the manner of The Crown, and centered on British crowned heads, from Elizabeth II to Charles III, including the heir-in-title William. But unfortunately for him, Stéphane Sitbon-Gomez, general director of France Télévisions, threw his project in the trash!
”Fiction is difficult. France Télévisions has just refused the project, but I believe there are other channels which are interested” put it into perspective Stéphane Bern. To succeed in creating his royal series, the host pulled out all the stops since he did not hesitate to team up with the Americans: ”It is written, but as there was an international development envisaged, it is re-scripted by the Americans. And, my goodness, they seem to have understood the spirit of what we want to do. explained the one who consecrated the fortified castle of Sedan in the Ardennes ”favorite monument of the French” this Wednesday on France 3 in front of 1.6 million viewers (9.7%).
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He refused the ”rags and lace” of ”Deal done”
In this same interview, Stéphane Bern returned to the reasons which pushed him to refuse to host the magazine Deal done. Indeed, in 2017, before thinking of Sophie Davant, France 2 And Warner had first imagined entrusting the program to Stéphane Bern. The latter had even passed tests that the broadcaster and the producer had deemed conclusive, but he had refused the mission at the last minute. ”Contrary to what has been said, I did not refuse this program out of disdain” the host immediately defended himself, before justifying his refusal: ”I had done the pilot, it worked very well, but I was already hosting History Secrets, Let Yourself Be Guided, ceremonies like those of July 14, I told myself that I couldn’t do the flea market . It looked a bit old rag and old lace”. Since the start of the 2023 school year, Sophie Davant has given up her place as host to Julia Vignali to devote herself to a mood show on Europe 1.
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