Host Laurent Ruquier will join BFMTV in October for a daily program, competing with the evening newscasts of TF1 and France 2, the news channel announced on Saturday. The former presenter of We are not lying had indicated on Wednesday that he was leaving France 2 after 23 years, without specifying his destination.
“Laurent Ruquier joins the first news channel in France to host a new meeting with Julie Hammett by his side, Monday to Thursday from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. “, detailed BFMTV (Altice group) in a press release. Julie Hammett is a journalist who for her part comes from LCI, after ten years in the editorial staff of the TF1 group.
“Laurent made the choice of passion, he is passionate about info who spends hours and hours reading the press, listening to the radio and TV,” commented the general manager of the channel, Marc-Olivier Fogiel.
“Processing and debating information”
Also quoted in the press release, Laurent Ruquier specified that the program would consist of “dealing with and debating information, both leaving room for live coverage but also taking the time to reflect on events about which we have sometimes a tendency to react too quickly without bringing the necessary nuances”.
“I have always aimed to listen to the multiplicity of opinions while trying to bring my point of view, sometimes singular, fighting in my own way against the subjectivity of activism. I will continue to do so,” he added.
It will combine with the presentation, for the ninth consecutive season, of the humorous program Les Grosses Têtes, from 3:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., on RTL radio, which belongs to a competing group.