The TV Brief: What to watch from December 19 to 25?

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20 minutes

For the 26th time in history, it is Jean-Pierre Foucault that will fall, Saturday night on TF1, the heavy task of announcing the identity of the new Miss France.

While the rumor lent him the intention to pass the hand this year, after an edition organized in HIS city of Marseille, the historical presenter will be there, for the program broadcast from the Puy du Fou.

So, what are the Misses like this year?

I don't really like meeting them before D-Day. I'm always a little afraid I like to make relationships, and then be accused of favoritism.

Even if I have no influence on the votes, I am always suspected of favoring Miss Provence.

But as Miss Provence has never won for 26 years that I am at the presentation of Miss France, I think that this theory does not hold.

Do you really think you have no influence on the conduct of the election?

Absolutely.

My role is very limited and is limited to little vocabulary.

I do not intervene much, contrary to what one might think.

I am a butler who emphasizes everything that makes the quality of the show.

But since it's live, you need composure.

I have to furnish when there are technical problems, I like that a lot.

There is also the interview of the Misses.

Dreaded test for candidates ...

But now the questions are written by viewers and the jury.

I give very little advice to the misses.

I suggest that they keep their spontaneity, not to recite, to relax… But on the air, I remain unmoved, neutral.

Even when I announce the title.

What will this edition of Miss France look like?

There will be almost no audience.

The good side is that Miss France is once again becoming a television show when it had become a great show filmed with crowds of crazy supporters.

There, it will be more muffled.

Audiences arrived late in the big TV shows.

We come back to our original job of making TV shows.

The stage is huge but we will work almost like in the studio.

You almost seem to be delighted ...

No, because it's nice to smell and hear the audience, even if you can't see it with the lights on.

The audience has become essential.

This absence will have an impact on the tempo.

There will be music but no false applause or recorded cheers.

Apart from the public, has the Miss France show changed in recent years?

Of course.

Have fun looking at the 1995 one, you will find it very dated.

It's constantly evolving, that's why it's not an old-fashioned show.

Yet we have the feeling that Miss France is a program rather of the kind… immutable.

You're talking about me there.

I am immutable, it's true, but we are careful to develop the program.

It does not necessarily show because we are careful not to change everything.

The public is nitro, if we change too much they freak you out.

Every year we change a little something.

The show does not age.

Except the presenter!

While the Misses are still 20 years old.

It's cruel.

If the show evolves a little, the competition, it evolves little.

The regulations of Miss France are subject to criticism on its inadequacy with society, the sexism of its logic ...

I don't agree with you from the roof.

The misses have changed enormously, they understood that being Miss France is an incredible social lift, it burns the steps.

Before, the young women who presented themselves were there just because they were told that they were not bad… Whereas in recent years, all the Miss France have seized this opportunity to make a career.

It started with Sophie Thallman who said she wanted to take my place.

That's what he made him win.

The misses must not be sanitized.

Sophie Thallman did not finally take your place but your succession is often mentioned.

Does that annoy you?

No, it's fun.

In reality, there are few of us in this profession, the potential candidates for my succession can be counted on the fingers of one hand.

And they are all very discreet in their ambition!

"They"?

A woman could not succeed you at the presentation of Miss France?

Ha, that, I don't know.

Anyway, as for Miss France, it is not me who will choose.

Since 2009, Sylvie Tellier co-presents with me.

She is the boss.

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  • Jean-pierre foucault

  • Sylvie tellier

  • miss France

  • TF1

  • Television