The Saturday night talk show On ne pas couché, presented by Laurent Ruquier for 14 years on France 2, will stop at the end of the season, but the host "is thinking" about other projects with the channel, he told AFP on Saturday, confirming information from RTL.
A new page in the career of Laurent Ruquier
"ONPC stops", and "I am thinking of other projects in agreement with the chain, including for Saturday evening," said the presenter to Agence France-Presse. On Saturday, RTL radio (on which Laurent Ruquier hosts Les grosses tête ), reported that the show would stop in June and not resume in September for a 15th season. And this, even though France Télévisions had announced this week that the grids of its various channels would be renewed until the end of the year, given the coronavirus crisis, postponing its next return to January 2021.
With the end of the program, a new page will open in the career of Laurent Ruquier, emblematic host of public service and France 2, where he has officiated since 2000, in particular with On a tout tried, broadcast until 2007, or We only ask to laugh about it . Besides "ONPC", created in 2006, since 2017 he has also hosted Les enfants de la Télé on the second channel.
14 years of longevity for On ne pas couché
Launched 14 years ago, On n'est pas couché is a weekly talk show broadcast on Saturday evening at the end of the evening on France 2 and presented since its creation by Laurent Ruquier, who co-produced it with Catherine Barma. The program recorded since 2014 at Studio Gabriel (after several years at the Moulin Rouge), whose filming and broadcasting were suspended in March due to the epidemic of Covid-19, inaugurated during the 2019-2020 season new formula, without regular columnists.
Now, a duo of personalities changing with each issue is responsible for responding to the guests. A new configuration breaking with the famous duets of regular columnists who had marked the history of the show, in particular Eric Zemmour / Eric Naulleau, Natacha Polony / Aymeric Caron, or Christine Angot and Yann Moix (which was replaced in 2018 by Charles Consigny).
Audience at its lowest level in mid-February
The show was marked by memorable "clashes" between certain guests and columnists, notably Eric Zemmour who participated in it for the first five seasons. The talk show broadcast in the second part of the evening, which has long exceeded a million viewers, had seen its audience drop to its lowest level in mid-February, at 673,000 viewers, fueling speculation on whether or not to maintain the next school year.