Cyril Hanouna, the new Julien Tanti?

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C8 / Mat Ninat

  • Between the adventures of Loana and the stories of witchcraft at 

    Les Marseillais

    ,

    Touche pas à mon poste

     has a lot of TV news to deal with lately.

  • For several weeks, the show hosted by Cyril Hanouna has been giving the floor to the various players in these affairs, further fueling its feuilleting aspect.

  • "I do not believe that it is a reality TV like the others but it has become an ingredient of reality TV", analyzes the semiology Virginie Spies for 

    20 Minutes

    .

“Previously on

Touche pas à mon poste

…” This is not yet how Cyril Hanouna's show starts every evening, but it could not be too late in the end.

In recent weeks, C8's talk show has become its own performance hall with its stage, audience and main actors.

This phenomenon, which is not new in nearly eleven years of existence, has however been accentuated recently with the case of Loana.

On February 22, we learned that the star of

Loft Story

had been hospitalized.

Among the chroniclers seated around the table to provide information on the situation, Guillaume Genton, whose production company is filming at the same time a documentary dedicated to him.

The next day, a debate entitled "Are Loana's entourage dangerous?"

»Animates the set in the company of two of the young woman's relatives, namely Sylvie Ortega and Eryl Prayer.

Two days later, the show wonders: "Should the production of current documentaries on Loana stop?"

".

"One of the secrets of the audience is to soap opera"

The following week,

TPMP

brought in Loana's friends again, even going so far as to cause the start of a fight between Sylvie Ortega and Eryl Prayer.

This same pattern has been occurring for several days with the history of witchcraft which sows havoc among the

Marseillais

, since successive "specialists" in the question, but also the protagonists of the case, in particular Carla Moreau then the clairvoyant in heart of the scandal.

“We know very well that one of the secrets of the audience is to leaf through, to give daily news of the actors and the characters.

And there, it sketches to death, ”analyzes Virginie Spies, semiologist and specialist in audiovisual media.

A recipe that works since

Touche pas à mon poste

signed its season audience record last Monday with the interview of Carla Moreau of the

Marseillais

, which attracted nearly two million viewers.

"They write the narration completely, they take all the possible characters or even they look for more and more", notes the semiologist.

Columnists disguised as inspectors

The personification of the show has always been a factor that has contributed to its popularity.

Day by day, audiences are finding the characters they love (and love to hate).

When he turns on his TV, he therefore expects to find Gilles Verdez who is screaming, Jean-Michel Maire who tells about his flirting techniques or even Isabelle Morini-Bosc who is vanquished because of her age.

Today, the trend is not the same.

If the culture of the clash still concerns chroniclers and columnists, it now extends to guests.

And the specialists of the show are given another role.

"They are characters but also people who say that they are credible in this universe, that they have networks and that they are leading the investigation" in the face of the themes that are proposed to them, notes Virginie Spies.

Thus, when they are confronted with Danaé's version of the facts, Carla's clairvoyant from the

Marseillais

, Gilles Verdez and Benjamin Castaldi no longer hesitate to repeat that they have made several phone calls in order to disentangle the true from the false.

“They will be less crazy and rather accompany Cyril Hanouna.

The characters are those who arrive on the set ”, supports the semiologist.

TPMP

, "instrument of reality TV"?

However, do the repeated clashes around events relating to reality TV make

Touche pas à mon poste

a show of this kind in its own right?

"It is a place of passage which pursues the stories of reality TV, even which makes them", nuance Virginie Spies.

Even if it borrows certain codes, such as recurring characters and the “feuillettonisation” of stories, the program hosted by Cyril Hanouna is not a reality show like any other.

"It is an instrument of reality television, a program which is available to reality television and which makes it today," decrypts the television specialist.

To try to understand Carla's story, you either have to spend the day on Snapchat and Instagram, or watch the debrief with

TPMP in

the evening.

"

Since the end of 

Mad Mag 

on NRJ12 in 2018, no show has talked about the world of reality TV on television.

A boulevard is then offered to the emission of C8.

“Afterwards, you have to be careful not to pull the thread too much.

The point is to make the sauce rise without overflowing, ”warns Virginie Spies.

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