Asked about Europe 1 about the deep programming changes on the encrypted channel in recent years, the host said he thought leaving Canal +, without ever taking the plunge. Antoine de Caunes believes he has a freedom he would not have elsewhere.

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Football, Groland and Antoine de Caunes. This is about what remains of the Canal + history that viewers have known for years. No more Zapping , Guignols or other investigative programs such as The Butterfly Effect or Special Investigation . Antoine de Caunes continues to animate La Gaule d'Antoine on the encrypted channel. A program in which he goes to meet French regions. In Media Culture on Europe 1, the animator confides on this new Canal +.

"I feel like I'm still on a moving chain"

For Antoine de Caunes, "the vital forces are renewed" on Canal +. "When I see what an Augustin Trapenard does with his show, Octopus on Sunday, the little shorts of humor on the right and on the left, the original creations, I have the impression of always being on a moving chain ", says the animator.

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However, Antoine de Caunes does not hide that the cuts in emissions, after the arrival of Vincent Bolloré, disturbed him. "If I asked myself the question of leaving, at the moment, because the upheaval was very radical," says the host. But finally, he stayed on the encrypted channel. "It's the only channel I can play TV as I hear it," he says. "I do not really know where I could do this show elsewhere."