First days of July, the sun shines through the windows of the classroom, we erase the board and we distribute the good points. And the bad ones. At the house of 20 minuteswe did our homework and watched TV all year round: we enjoyed the spectacle of Dance with the starswe sang in front of Eurovision, we enjoyed ourselves in front of Top chef… But in the back of the class, a few shows disrupted the dynamism of the channels and, in another era, would have put on the dunce cap.
District Z (TF1)
It has been a long time since a program has been deprogrammed on TF1. But given the resources put into the production of District Z and from the scores that the program has recorded, it took just two weeks for the channel to bring an end to the suffering of the zombies.
The first episode, broadcast on December 4, conquered 2.03 million people, while the following was followed by only 1.57 million viewers. The creatures in the Arthur-produced game were more biting than the previous season, but audiences didn’t get caught up in the entertainment. Several issues of this second salvo are still in the boxes.
The Artist (France 2)
Nagui wanted his The Voicehe will have had his Square Viiip. By programming The Artist faced with ten years of TF1 entertainment, the public service did not give the music program much of a chance, which wanted to give pride of place to songwriters. But by having them sing covers from the first prime, the message was scrambled and viewers cut off the France 2 signal.
While the launch brought together only 1.32 million music lovers at the beginning of September, the scores plunged over the weeks: 990,000 people then 847,000 die-hard followers the following two weeks. Faced with this debacle, France Télévisions decided to switch the program to the second part of the evening. Despite several changes during the season, only 541,000 pairs of ears listened to the winners’ song during the final. It was Rouquine, for those wondering.
hotel of time (France 3)
It recorded a better score than Nagui’s show but we can consider that Thierry Ardisson’s great novelty is also a failure. Before his hotel of time arrives on France 3, the host and producer chained the TV promos to explain the principle of his documentary (to make the dead speak) and its cogs (the deepfake). Obviously, the regulars of the public service had not seized everything by connecting to the chain.
The first issue, devoted to Dalida, suffered some criticism, in particular on the reconstruction of the face of Claude François, but was generally praised for its technical prowess. However, only 1.4 million curious people followed this inaugural episode. Others should still arrive on the air at the start of the school year with Coluche and Jean Gabin.
The princes and princesses of love (W9)
Big air hole for The princes and princesses of love. While the previous edition had conquered 682,000 followers, the ninth season of W9 reality TV could only count on 344,000 aficionados in December and January. Due to “insufficient audiences”, the channel even decided to cancel the dating show two weeks before the originally scheduled date.
Reality TV would she lead in the wing? This is not the opinion of W9, which is betting more than ever on this genre for the coming season. “We are in a movement of renewal and the launch of important new products”, announced the director general of the chain Jérôme Fouqueray this week during a press conference. In the next few days will turn elsewhere The Fiftya show that will bring together fifty of the biggest stars of reality TV for a series of challenges.
influences (NRJ12)
You have no idea what it is influences ? It’s normal. NRJ12 tried to get into the race for daily soap operas at the start of the school year with the story of Alexandra, a law student who drops everything to set up her own influencer agency. No TikTok or Instagram stars showed interest in the project, nor did viewers.
In total, the ten episodes broadcast by the channel attracted an average of 19,000 French people. The worst score was even recorded on September 27 with… 3,000 people in front of their screens. That it is difficult to convert followers into viewers. We hope that the PAF will learn the lesson for the coming season.