Yann Barthès will begin this Monday, at 6:25 pm, on TMC - the show will return to its usual launch schedule, 7:25 pm, the next day - its sixth season at the presentation of
Quotidien
.
"The season may be a little complicated so we wanted a return of humor on a daily basis, with Anne Depétrini [new recruit], Alison [Wheeler] and Pablo Mira who is returning," he explains to
20 Minutes
.
While the presidential election is looming,
Quotidien
does not plan to invite candidates for the election: “There are too many spaces elsewhere, everyone will throw themselves on the policies. We will let the campaign start, continue to decipher and we will see later, ”says Yann Barthès.
Yann Barthès gives interviews in a dropper. It is not his favorite exercise. He says he doesn't like to repeat himself, he feels like he's rambling. In this TV re-entry, however, he agreed to speak exclusively with
20 Minutes
. We met him Thursday afternoon, in the boxes of
Quotidien
, when he had just shot a "pilot" of the show, a kind of rehearsal used by the teams to get back in the bath and to perform the final technical adjustments.
While he will return to the air this Monday, at 6:25 pm, on TMC the host says he is “serene” and “in a very good state of mind”.
"Happy" too, to find his band of columnists.
"It is not at all the language of wood, we get along rather well on the set and outside the office, I think it shows on the air," he insists.
This Monday you begin your sixth season of "Quotidien".
You don't feel tired?
It could go on forever, it's a show that doesn't have a recurring concept. The frame is recurrent, but what we put in it is not. There is no day that is like another. The period when things were most similar was during confinement where everything was frozen. There was, indeed, a feeling, which was not at all a weariness, but an impression of moving forward, like that, on a vacuum: we did not know what was happening, we lived the same thing as everyone else. world, than all the French. We worked differently, we were less numerous and, suddenly, we sailed a little on sight. We found ourselves on the plateau a few times with nothing. There was the view of Paris where no car was driving. We tried to tinker with subjects as much as we could, remotely, without technique,because we couldn't get out. It was that which was a little redundant, but we held the shock.
Since the start of the pandemic, the public around the plateau has disappeared.
His return is not expected soon?
The health situation is not yet completely certain.
We prefer not to bring the audience back for the moment, because we don't want to take the risk of having to remove it again after two weeks.
There is also a technical constraint: there is no longer a tier on the new plateau.
But we decided that there could be audiences for exceptional events.
For example, soon, we will receive Ed Sheeran.
We are thinking of bringing in spectators, with health passes, with the same constraints as theaters and cinemas.
It's going to be weird because it's been a year and a half since there has been applause on the set.
There is a different atmosphere, a different sound.
New recruits will appear this season, including Anne Depétrini.
What made you decide to call on her?
Anne Depétrini came as a guest at the end of the year.
We found that what she said echoed what we thought and we liked the way she wrote.
She was offered a weekly column on life in 2021. She accepted.
The season may be a little complicated so we wanted a return of everyday humor in
Quotidien
, with Anne Depétrini, Alison [Wheeler] and Pablo Mira returning.
Nicolas Fresco, who works with Willy Papa [on “Le Petit Q”], will write a column on influencers.
You spoke of a “complicated season”: humor is necessary to counterbalance this tense period?
In any case, there, it is tense.
I hope it will be less so, that it will be a calm presidential year (
laughs
).
We have always tried to never lose humor despite what we have been through these last ten years, even in the most complicated moments.
This season, I think we need it even more, so we added a little more.
Antoine Bristielle, director of the Opinion Observatory of the Jean-Jaurès Foundation, will be writing a new column ...
He has been to the plateau several times.
He has a crazy talent for analyzing [social] groups and when he explains, you say: “Obviously!
Except you, you are unable to put words on it.
He puts them on.
He takes opinion polls, shares his feelings… It's his job.
Fortunately he is there to shed light on public opinion, on what the French think.
Will his chronicles be linked to public opinion in the context of the 2022 presidential election?
Not necessarily.
What will the “8:15 pm express” actually consist of?
This will be the new current meeting.
Where, before, several big subjects were distributed in the various parts of the emission, one will henceforth make a newspaper in the manner of "19h30 Médias" of Julien Bellver.
This sequence presented by Paul Gasnier will bring together all the forces of the editorial staff to talk about French and international news.
We will also take a little distance by going to see in the archives what can shed light on what is happening now.
Are you planning to invite all presidential candidates?
For two years we have said to ourselves that we no longer want policies on the plateau. We did not receive any, apart from Olivier Véran and Jean-Michel Blanquer who had come to talk about the pandemic [Nicolas Sarkozy, invited last September, officially left politics]. Political speech is everywhere, debates are everywhere. So for now it's no, we don't want a debate, no clash, we don't want to create a buzz, we just want to work and interview people who enlighten us on something or defend a work, a film , for example, which we love. But no politics, there are too many spaces elsewhere, everyone is going to pounce on the politicians. We will let the campaign start, continue to decipher and we will see later.
Coming back to the tense period: in recent weeks, several journalists have been insulted and abused on the ground, especially in the context of demonstrations against the health pass.
In June, a journalist from "Quotidien" lodged a complaint, accusing Francis Lalanne of having hit him during a mobilization in Avignon ... Do you plan special devices to strengthen the security of the reporters of the show?
This has already been the case for quite some time.
The teams, on some shoots, leave with security.
We are not the only ones.
Sometimes we also leave without an identifiable microphone [without the
Daily
logo
]. But we continue to cover these events. We wondered what to do. I am thinking, for example, of what happened in Avignon in June or at the Trocadéro the week before, with anti-tax devices which mistreated our team. Do we stop going there? I think we must continue. I have 100% confidence in our teams. They are not going for the fight or the buzz. They are made up of journalists, of a curious nature. Should we leave small groups like that, among themselves, on social networks? Or should we know them? I think you have to know them. We have to show the phenomenon. At the Trocadéro, in May, the anti-tax vehicles were 200. We saw this summer that there were many more. It is thanks to the journalists on the spot that we discovered that a senator, Vincent Delahaye, number 2 of the Senate,was present at the demonstration and then had to explain himself.
Do these kinds of tensions influence the content of the show.
In other words, for example, in the humorous pastilles, is there a form of self-censorship, an avoidance of sarcasm so as not to add fuel to the fire?
We start from the principle that we can laugh at everything.
If we say to ourselves “We can't laugh at this anymore”, that's the beginning of the end.
We can laugh at everything.
Point.
Critics of the show blame it for its sarcastic tone, believe that some attacks are gratuitous, that mockery, pointing to tics or language elements of political figures, for example, discredit them.
What do you say to them?
I think politicians are recovering well. They are the first to call us to come to the stage. And then humor in politics has always existed. We will continue to decipher and, in general, when we notice an element of language, there is always a meaning behind it. It's never free or when it's free, it's good fun. We were sometimes heavy, I assume: who is not?
Last season, the invitation on the set of Patrick Poivre d'Arvor [then accused of rape and sexual assault; in June, the investigation of eight complaints was dismissed for prescription or insufficient evidence] or Eugénie Bastié, for example, caused a stir, especially on social networks - if we assume that they take the pulse of part of the audience. Do you understand these reactions? If it had to be done again, would you invite them back?
You do well to put a nuance when you say that social networks reflect reality.
I think it is not.
For Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, we asked ourselves the question before inviting him [in March] and we asked the question again afterwards.
He wanted to speak and respond to the person who was complaining against him [other complaints were subsequently filed] and we made the decision to ask him questions and he would answer the charges but I don't necessarily keep any. a good memory.
With Eugénie Bastié, what surprised was that "Quotidien" invited a journalist perceived as reactionary ...
We did not have a debate.
Eugenie Bastié is intelligent, she has her opinion and it went well.
She didn't leave with her arms up and moaning.
It was interesting chatting with her.
What do you say to those who qualify “Quotidien” of emission of “Parisian bobos”?
(
Amused
) We're all somebody's sore and we're all somebody's beau.
Finally, the last season of "Quotidien" was the most followed since the launch of the show, with an average of 1.9 million viewers.
Are these improving results at the dawn of a new season a source of motivation or does it put pressure?
Regarding last year's hearings, we must not forget that, as long as people are required to be home at 6 p.m. [with the curfew], there is a good chance that audiences are increasing. We are not fooled. We continued the program under these particular conditions and I think the difficulties were seen. But it created a link. The people I met this summer told me a lot: “You were there during the confinement, you were the ritual. »While we felt like we were only the five of us on set. Usually, we are in a cellar [the studio is in the basement], we do not notice anything and we have the audience scores the next day. We didn't realize that we were watched a lot. I have the impression that a bond has been created between viewers and us.I hope they will continue to trust us. The team is in good shape, wants to work, works all day and, when evening arrives, gives everything. Sometimes we are less good, sometimes we are better. In fact, this is the first time that we have had so much feedback. I hope this link will last because it was strong, concrete.
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