In this episode of La Loupe, Xavier Yvon deciphers the transformation of the TNT “jester” with Etienne Girard and Alexandra Saviana, from the Société de L’Express service, and Olivier Pérou, journalist in the Political service.
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The team: Xavier Yvon (presentation), Margaux Lannuzel (writing), Mathias Penguilly (editing), Jules Krot (directing) and Marion Galard (alternate).
Credits: TPMP, C8
Music and dressing: Emmanuel Herschon/Studio Torrent
Picture credits: Joel Saget/AFP
Logo: Anne-Laure Chapelain/Benjamin Chazal
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Xavier Yvon: To begin this episode, I’m going to resort to one of cinema’s most hackneyed scripts. A character falls into a coma, for years the world continues to turn without him. Until the day he wakes up and discovers that the Berlin Wall has fallen or that he does not know the names of the last four Presidents of the Republic.
Imagine a scenario like this, which would have deprived our character of any contact with the world from the mid-2000s. A time when we listen to music on MP3 players, where prices are always indicated in euros and in francs on the labels and where Cyril Hanouna is the schoolboy and ephemeral host of “Morning Live” on M6 – he is notably known for having swallowed urine there in front of the camera.
Our hero would wake up today. He would note that everyone now has internet on their mobile phone, that one can work a whole week from home and that Cyril Hanouna now presents a political program which has seen several contenders for the Elysee Palace during the presidential campaign.
This character would probably be amazed, yet this scenario is 100% real. You may have already understood that an upheaval interests me more than the others: the very political transformation of Cyril Hanouna… How did the former “jester” of TNT become an essential figure, feared by the channel bosses like ministers? And how far can his thirst for power take him? These are the questions we are looking at today.
For further
PODCAST. Idriss Aberkane, “the master of window dressing” (1/3)
Cyril Hanouna or the tyranny of the child king, by Gérald Bronner
Cyril Hanouna, Lady Diana… When public debate becomes reality TV, by Abnousse Shalmani
Hanouna vs Boyard: the two come out stronger, each “hero” welding his community