While the French of Île-de-France and eight major cities are enjoying their last evening of freedom before the curfew comes into effect, Friday at midnight, France Télévisions announced that it would broadcast a film every evening .
This new program aims to entertain citizens, confined to their homes.
France Télévisions will broadcast a film every evening on its various antennas "to entertain and bring families together" in this context of the Covid-19 health crisis, while several cities in the country and Île-de-France will be subject to a curfew, from Friday midnight for a minimum of four weeks.
"France Télévisions adapts and offers every evening on one of its antennas a cinema film. The France.tv platform will also offer a wide selection of films to see or re-watch," the statement said.
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Children's film on Saturday, general public on Sunday
The film will be shown in prime-time every evening except Friday when it will be shown in the second part of the evening, with new boxes being added to the existing cine boxes.
On Saturday, it will be a youth / family film on France 4, on Sunday a general public film on France 2, on Monday a heritage film on France 5. The channels chosen to broadcast a film on the other days will be specified later.
The group had already made way for the cinema during the confinement with the broadcast of heritage films in the afternoon, which had been very successful with viewers.