INTERVIEW
On France televisions, confinement now rhymes with culture. Philippe Vandel received on Monday Michel Field, director of culture and live entertainment at France Televisions, who detailed the reinforced cultural device put in place on the channels of the France Televisions group during the confinement. France 2 has for example modified its Saturday evenings. On March 28, the play Le syndrome de l'Ecossais by Isabelle Le Nouvel, notably with Thierry Lhermite and Bernard Campan, replaced the usual Saturday night entertainment. An example taken from the plethoric cultural offer broadcast by the group's channels.
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"We try to offer all genres and reach all territories because culture is not just Parisian," says Michel Field. He quotes in particular "theater for the general public on Saturday evening on France 2", "the theater of the Comédie-française on Sunday on France 5" or even "opera and ballet on France 5 on Saturday evening".
At the same time, these broadcasts make it possible to revive the cultural world, asphyxiated by containment measures. "We carry out a lot of operations with the operas of regions and overseas territories", specifies Michel Field. It is thus a matter of creating a surge of "solidarity with the artistic and live performance world which has been impacted in a devastating way by the first containment measures", according to the leader.
"Inform, entertain, cultivate"
By highlighting all these programs, France televisions also asserts its role as a public media. "Public service has three missions: to inform, to entertain and to cultivate in this period of confinement. We must give all those who are today deprived of entertainment the opportunity to go there from home," says Michel Field.
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The innovations are still awaited since France televisions is "adjusting the programming week after week", warns Michel Field.