France 2 launches a new program on Saturday hosted by Jean-Marc Généreux: "Spectaculaire".
A show that combines performing arts and variety artists.
Guest of "Culture Médias", its presenter explains, alongside the director of entertainment and variety of France Télévisions, Alexandra Redde-Amiel, what distinguishes this new program from the late "Biggest cabaret in the world" by Patrick Sébastien.
At first glance, it's hard not to see a dusted version of the
Greatest cabaret in the world
.
France 2 is launching this Saturday evening
Spectaculaire
, an entertainment program where circus and performing arts artists present numbers on stage.
Especially since this new show takes the box long occupied by Patrick Sébastien.
Above all, Europe 1 revealed this Thursday, the boss of France Televisions withdrew
The Biggest Cabaret in the World
because its presenter refused to modernize the program, and not because she no longer believed in the show.
So what is
Spectaculaire
really changing
?
Presenter Jean-Marc Généreux and Alexandra Redde-Amiel, director of entertainment and variety at France Télévisions, explain in
Culture Médias
why their program differs from its predecessor.
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An innovative creation
According to Alexandra Redde-Amiel,
Spectaculaire
is not an updated version of the
Greatest cabaret in the world
, but "a real creation".
And the show is not either, she says, an adaptation of a foreign format.
"We are in the continuity of what the public service can offer" explains the director of entertainment and variety of France Televisions.
"That is, to provide our viewers with visual arts."
"We created a new DNA", abounds Jean-Marc Généreux.
One of the innovations of the new TV program is its decor, which is concretely different from that of Patrick Sébastien's show.
9 meters high, it indeed uses the technique of "mapping".
"A fabric that will make it possible to project and build visual universes on it", explains Alexandra Redde-Amiel.
Another change in form, admittedly more anecdotal: the dancing entry of Jean-Marc Généreux.
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"A platform" for private performing artists
In principle, however, difficult not to see it as a rehash of the
Greatest cabaret
when Jean-Marc Généreux sums up the principle of
Spectaculaire
.
"We have 12 stage performances from all over the world and from all the worlds of performing arts," he explains.
But the presenter prefers a topical argument to the comparison with the past.
"With the Covid 19, some artists have not done anything for 4,5,6 months," he recalls.
"They no longer have an audience, no room. This program is a perfect platform for them."
What distinguishes perhaps the most
Spectacular
from any other performing arts show is the presence of famous French singers and singers on stage.
In the first edition of
Spectaculaire
, viewers will find Mr. Pokora, Amir and Louane, singing in numbers staged by the star dancer Marie-Claude Pietragalla.
"We wanted each performance to be unique", summarizes Jean-Marc Généreux.
The presenter promises viewers an evening full of emotions: "You will sometimes have to hang on to your seat!".