Louise Bernard with Ophélie Artaud 11:09 a.m., May 24, 2022
After misinterpreted remarks by Julien Courbet, "Télé Star" mistakenly announced the end of the "Calls for Witnesses" program, after only three issues.
The M6 channel explained that it was only thinking of modifying the format of this program which is relaunching investigations into disappearances or murders in an attempt to elucidate them.
The
Call for Witnesses
program will not disappear, but will simply evolve.
At the origin of the rumor of stopping the show, remarks by Julien Courbet which were misinterpreted by
Télé Star.
M6, which launched the program co-hosted by Julien Courbet and Nathalie Renoux in the summer of 2021, announces that it plans to modify the format, after only three issues, without communicating more precisely on the changes to come and currently at the stage. of reflection.
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"It's going to stop. The bias was to do it with the police and the gendarmerie. Viewers were asked to call to advance an investigation," recalled presenter Julien Courbet in the columns of
Télé Star
.
"We saw the calls coming, but no one on set had the right to say what the content was. So there was frustration."
The Lucas Tronche case revived after the show
It is perhaps the erosion of audiences, premium after premium, which pushes the channel to rework the format of its program, the principle of which is to participate in the resolution of disappearances or unsolved murders.
For this, they appeal to the information of the viewers.
The production also works in close collaboration with the police, the gendarmes, the Ministry of the Interior, Justice.
Several investigations were relaunched with the show: among them, that of Lucas Tronche, the teenager who disappeared in 2015, whose body had never been located.
Two weeks after the show, which gave a new dynamic to the case by publicizing it, the bones of the young boy were found.