Laurent Ruquier, Saturday evening, after 11 p.m., on France 2, it’s over but the host will very quickly take the reins of a new weekly program in the second part of the evening. Premier Club will be launched soon on Paris Première – the day of broadcast has not been made official.
This cultural talk show will be shot “under live conditions, in a restaurant-café in Porte d’Orléans, in the 14th arrondissement, announced Catherine Schoefer, the channel’s general manager, during a press conference. this Friday. It is a friendly place, where, between the stage, the bar and the stairs, Laurent will have to move around. »
Readers and spectators transformed into critics
The presenter will be surrounded each week by Gaël Tchakaloff for a literary column, and by François Renucci, who is also the director of Big heads on RTL, to talk about “the books we don’t make”. “On the radio, I receive an average of a dozen books every morning. There are those that I will deal with on the show, and the others that I pile up on the windowsill: these are the books that we don’t do. François Renucci will therefore try to guess, in his column, why I did not retain them, ”explains Laurent Ruquier.
At each show, comedians will come to promote them – Thaïs, Tristan Lopin and Bérangère Krief for the first issue. “In return, we will ask them to give us one of their latest cultural favourites,” adds the host. In addition to the guests who came to talk about their respective films, books or shows, Premier Club will invite three people from civil society to give their impressions of a novel, a feature film or a play. These occasional critics will be selected from the clientele of a bookstore or the public of a preview.
“I was afraid that I would miss culture”
“This is an opportunity for me to continue to make a program with cultural guests, I was afraid that I would miss it,” said Laurent Ruquier, who left the presentation ofWe are live on France 2. The presenter, who remains linked to the public service where he continues to host several programs, says he first suffered the refusal of Delphine Ernotte, the boss of the public service, when he asked her for authorization to complete this project on the M6 group channel.
He claims to have quickly made him change his mind: “My argument is that I had already done it when I was hosting It swings in Paris on Paris Première in addition to my daily show, We tried everythingon France 2.” Unstoppable.