There will soon be only one. The final of Koh-Lanta: The Island of heroes will take place on Friday June 5. Postponed due to the coronavirus, the program will take place without an audience and will be adapted to health conditions. An opportunity for the producer, Alexia Laroche-Joubert, to change the usual formula a little, as she explains at the microphone of Isabelle Morizet. "Usually the show is quite short and really very focused on the finalists and here we will give the floor to everyone," she explains.
"A phenomenon of adhesion" around the candidates
A final "which will be a little special" and will offer a "very entertaining version, with real stakes" to conclude a record season. "It was really the confinement soap opera. We reached scores that we had not reached for four, five years, with replay peaks up to eight million, which is monstrous," reports the producer.
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"There is always, of course, the final issue of who will be the winner and there I think we will take a longer time to settle in communion with the adventurers" announces Alexia Laroche-Joubert. A decision which she justifies by the strong support of the public to the candidates: "There are many personalities within our adventurers who triggered a real attraction both and for some unfortunately a rejection, but it triggered a phenomenon of membership around them and I think people will be very happy to hear them speak. "
Return to highlights of the adventure
The show will therefore be an opportunity "to hear them express themselves about their adventure and the way they lived it and to recount the highlights of their adventure". This special 2020 edition, marked by the meeting of heroes and strangers, "was a world first" as the producer reminds us, which can therefore partly explain its success.
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The confinement also contributed to the success of this season "which ticked a lot of boxes": the escape, the surpassing of oneself and the life in community, so many promising themes while people were stranded at home analyzes the producer.