"Welcome back", "Canap"... Pop nostalgia, TV's safe haven

• Welcome back

  , hosted by Camille Combal, airs Friday March 18, 2022 at 9:10 p.m. on TF1.

  Personalities will answer quizzes and participate in games on the theme of the year 1993.

• Welcome Back

  , as well as the TMC magazine 

  Canap

  and the documentaries

  A Year of TV

  expected on C8, have in common to dive back into the news and pop culture of the 1980s and 1990s.

• “We enjoy revisiting the past.

  I think that today things are going so fast, that we are overwhelmed by so much information, that there is a need to dive back into certain eras to take a step back, ”says Matthieu Grelier, director programs from ITV Studios France, which co-produces

  Welcome Back

  .

Diving back into the past is the new fad of the small screen.

On April 6, TMC will broadcast

, where Etienne Carbonnier's band will exhume the archives of

, recall the

to our good memories and recapitulate the chronology of the fall of the Berlin wall.

On March 26 and April 2, C8 will return to 1982 and 1983 respectively with

which, as its title suggests, will review the key programs and moments of the time (

,

,

, Yannick Noah's victory at Roland-Garros…).

This Friday, TF1 launches at 9:10 p.m.

, a game presented by Camille Combal and centered on 1993. Two teams of personalities (Michèle Laroque, Michael Gregorio, Nolwenn Leroy against Jean-Luc Lemoine, Barbara Schulz and Redouane Bougheraba), will compete in different quizzes and games on the theme of that year.

The immersion is pushed to such an extent that the decor and the outfits of the host and his candidates are in tune with the fashion of the time.

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Launched five years ago in the Netherlands, with continued success, under the title

(“A year to mark with a white stone”), this concept was adapted in France at a time when

(a Anglophone neologism mixing the words "retro" / "retro" and "entertainement" / "divertissement") is trendy.

“We are not in the past”

“We enjoy revisiting the past.

I think that today things are going so fast, that we are overwhelmed by so much information, that there is a need to dive back into certain eras to take a step back, ”says Matthieu Grelier, director programs from ITV Studios France, which co -produces

with Ellimac.

In an anxiety-provoking context dominated by the pandemic and the war in Ukraine, these entertainments would serve as light and welcome parentheses.

“The objective of

 is not to say that it was better before, we are not in the past, underlines Matthieu Grelier.

It's just that when you've been through certain eras, you feel like you had a little less to worry about.

Those who were not born can have fun seeing how their parents and grandparents lived and laughing because the looks and aesthetics were different.

It feels good, it relaxes a little and I think that right now we don't need that.

»

The box of "Canap"

The pop nostalgia card seems like a good move if we judge the success of

which, in the spring of 2021, had a hit with the audience.

Nearly 1.8 million viewers had been there on TMC to relive the frenzy for boy bands, the trickery of the Roswell creature or the drunken ceremonies of the 7 d'or.

A score clearly above the channel's usual averages (700,000 people) and quite simply the best audience in three years for prime time entertainment on DTT.

In December,

aroused similar enthusiasm: with 1.6 million people captivated by this return to the beginning of the century.

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