TF1 and LCI adapt their information program grids to better follow the news related to the coronavirus, containment and its many consequences. The first channel has thus decided, for a week, to program Seven to Eight , Sunday program of Harry Roselmack, each evening before 8 p.m., itself often extended by several minutes depending on the news.
"Avoid being anxiety-provoking"
This device is justified, for Pascale de La Tour du Pin, presenter of the LCI Morning Show, by a new phase in the news: “We are out of the era of amazement, now we have to support, explain… In short, inform. Harry Roselmack is on the same line. "We need, especially at this moment, to have a concrete, human link to the epidemic, we need to know how people are living through this period. "
If his Morning will not ultimately go on TF1, after advice from the CSA, Pascale de La Tour du Pin has adapted it to the context: “We want to avoid being anxiety-provoking but without hiding anything either. I think that viewers can hear everything if the information, even the harshest, is given with a context, an explanation. "
"There are millions of stories to tell"
On the side of Seven to eight in daily life, it is a question of following people confronted, in one way or another with the epidemic: nursing staff, workers in danger, confined in distress ... But also positive portraits, new initiatives. "Our role is to step aside," explains Harry Roselmack. With our proven know-how, we will follow the heroes of this epidemic: all the French. We make portraits, we tell slices of life during the epidemic and the confinement. There are people we will follow for several days, several weeks. "
With the production company Elephant et Cie of Emmanuel Chain, Harry Roselmack is preparing for long-term work: “It is an exceptional device but we are ready to keep it for as long as it takes. Everyone is affected, all categories of the population, all professions ... There are millions of stories to tell. "
"Digest the information that falls on us"
On the LCI side too, work habits have been changed and adapted for the medium term. "We are living in a very strong moment for our profession," explains Pascale de La Tour du Pin. So, yes, of course, it is complicated on the material level, we must take precautions, the organization is unprecedented, but our mission has never been so essential. "
Beyond the TF1 “almost empty” tower and the distancing devices at work on set, the LCI journalist adapts the tone of her Morning to the circumstances. “For practical reasons and because this reassures viewers a little, we are banking on well-known faces from LCI and TF1. We also have experts who come regularly. I want at all costs to avoid skidding on the plateau, I want to control my antenna. I am very attentive to it in normal times and all the more today. It is important not to add fake news or unnecessary controversy at this time. It takes serenity to be able to digest the information that falls on us. "
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