It is also back to school for the main TV access programs.
"Quotidien" on TMC made the best comeback, "C à vous" on France 5 remained stable, on the other hand the beginnings were disappointing for "Touche pas à mon poste" on C8.
In Hollywood, actress Marisol Nichols, known for her role in the Netflix series "Riverdale", is also a secret agent.
Its fight against human trafficking and child sex trafficking should even be adapted to the cinema.
Médiametrie takes stock of the TV audiences for the month of August.
Finally in Great Britain, the channel Channel 4 broadcast at 10 pm images of an erect penis for its documentary “Me and my penis”, a first.
We start this media journal with an update on the hearings of the talks on Monday evening.
The three main access talks were all back on Monday.
“Quotidien” on TMC, “C à vous” on France 5 and “Touche pas à mon poste” on C8.
Monday evening, from 7:45 p.m. to 9:25 p.m., C8 brought together 684,000 viewers in front of “Touche pas à mon poste” and “Take it or leave it”, for 3% of audience share.
Last year, on an almost similar schedule, the first and second part of “TPMP” brought together 1.1 million people for 5.1% of pda.
On TMC, what did the return of “Quotidien” give?
From 7:25 p.m. to 9:25 p.m., Yann Barthès' talk points to 1.5 million viewers, or 6.9% of the public.
Last year, they were 440,000 fewer with 5.2% audience share.
And France 5?
From 7 pm to 8:25 pm, “C à vous” and “C à vous la suite” posted an average of 777,000 viewers, and an audience share of 4.1%.
“C à vous” is generally stable over one year.
We go to Hollywood, where reality has surpassed fiction.
I am going to tell you a story that you may find unbelievable.
But it is very true.
Do you know Marisol Nichols?
She is an American actress who holds one of the main roles of “Riverdale”, the series for teenagers broadcast at home on Netflix.
Before that, we saw her in “Criminal spirits”, “Urgences” or even “24 Heures Chrono”.
But besides her activity as an actress, since 2012 she had another job: she was a secret agent and fought against human trafficking and child sex trafficking.
She found herself facing pimps, in the United States but also abroad, and pretended to be a mother who wanted to sell her child.
We can say that she put her talents as an actress for the benefit of a good cause!
And this incredible story inspired TV!
The Sony studio has bought the rights to its story and will be working on a serial adaptation.
Marisol Nichols will be one of the executive producers, and it is not excluded that she interprets her own role.
Monday, Médiamétrie published the monthly audiences for TNT.
And like every month, there are the winners… and the losers.
In the lead, TF1 retains the pole position with 19.4% audience share on average.
This is its best August since 2017, and 0.7 points higher than in July, when the front page hit its all-time low.
The success of the PSG-Bayern match and the return of “Koh-Lanta” are not for nothing.
France 2 is globally stable over one month and over one year at 13.7% audience share, well helped by its afternoons and its access, while France 3 takes third position with 9.8% of audience share. audience, a good score which can be explained in particular by the very good health of its French dramas which are rebroadcast.
On the losing side, who do we find?
We first find M6, which had a bad summer.
After a catastrophic July, the channel took off again last month.
But it still signs one of the worst August in its history with 8.2% audience share.
Of the 30 evenings in August, only 11 passed the 10% audience share.
The news is not good either for TMC, at its lowest for 11 years for the month of August at 2.6%, nor for France 4, which suffers the same fate with 1.1% of audience share.
And the winners of the month?
The channels of the NextRadioTV group to begin with: BFMTV is at 2.7%, its best August for four years, when RMC Découverte and RMC Story equal their historic record at 2.5% and 1.8% share of 'audience, respectively.
A fine performance also for the L'Equipe channel, which posted its historic record audience of 1.8%.
And we end this newspaper with a first on British TV.
An erect penis!
Yesterday evening, the Channel 4 channel offered a documentary whose subject was not really mysterious, since it was entitled: “Me and my penis”.
Not very polite as a wording, we would have preferred “My penis and me”.
But I digress!
In summary, therefore, a series of interviews conducted by British artist Ajamu X, who questions men about their relationship to their sex, but also about what it means to be a man in 2020. “In this funny and moving film, the penis is a gateway through which to explore all aspects of masculinity, ”explains the channel.
It is in this context that the viewers of Channel 4 were able to see, for the first time on TV across the Channel, an erect male.
And they even saw eight in total.
Eight men testified and posed nude while Ajamu X interviewed them.
But are we allowed to show an erect penis on TV?
The channel took precautions, it broadcast the documentary from 10 p.m., to prevent the devices in question from appearing in prime time.
And it hides behind the artistic aspect of the documentary.
“We live in a time when people are more open-minded, there should be fewer complaints” to the local CSA, hopes the chain.