Thanked by the Canal + group a few years ago, Thierry Ardisson is making a comeback on France Télévisions with a new show. A decision that the 73-year-old host sees differently today. “At the time, it was not pleasant to be fired at the snap of a finger after thirteen years of good and loyal service on Canal +. But it forced me to question myself, to try to do something else. I find it wonderful that life gives me to create “Hôtel du temps”. It’s not cinema or TV or documentary or fiction, it’s a unique cultural object!”he tells our colleagues from TV Magazine.
Because indeed, after leaving France 2 and “Everyone talks about it”, Thierry Ardisson is making a comeback with a new concept. In “Hôtel du temps”, he revives personalities who have disappeared. The host interviews these deceased celebrities, whose faces and voices have been recreated by various technological processes so that they evoke their life and their death. In addition to the program on Dalida to come, Monday May 2, 2022 the broadcast of two other issues, devoted to Coluche and Jean Gabin, is announced for the coming months, in the first part of the evening on France 3.
A return to favor that Laurent Baffie’s great friend did not imagine so simple. “When I went to see Delphine Ernotte (president of France Télévisions, editor’s note), I told her that after having interviewed everyone, I had the other world left, and that I wanted to interview missing legends, she told me answered “yes”. (Laughs). It’s miraculous!“, he says.
If, after more than forty years spent in the small skylight of the French, Thierry Ardisson is not satisfied with television, it is also because he devours this medium that he made it known. And about today’s animators, the septuagenarian in his opinion on the question. “It does not interest me. Between the vulgar side of Cyril Hanouna and the slightly timid side of Yann Barthès, with Maïa Mazaurette who says: “Today, we are going to talk about the size of the penis, ohohoho”, I have trouble. If I look at one, it’s “C à vous”.“, he confides.
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