Stéphane Plaza stops filming, France 2 goes back, Christmas is already here and a new sport on TV

Stéphane Plaza's announcement.

No more filming for the host of M6.

This is what he announced on social networks in a long post.

Stéphane Plaza is at the end of the line.

Since the resumption of filming of his programs for M6, the favorite real estate agent of the French has undergone about sixty tests.

Here is what he wrote on Instagram: "No more noses, no more arms ... Between PCR, blood tests and serological tests, my body can no longer take it. I go through the drops, but always the same pattern: I turn, then case contact, then isolation, then test. I do only that and I will not tempt the devil any longer. I am therefore at about sixty tests ".

And for good reason, between "Apartment hunters", "House for sale" and "Search apartment or house", the host does not stop.

And each new shoot is one more opportunity to be in contact with people who are positive for Covid-19.

Ideally, it is tested and isolated while waiting for results.

At worst, he catches the disease.

Two options that do not excite him very much.

On Instagram, Stéphane Plaza ends his message with a little joke: "At 50, I decide to give up on the Rolex and on the shootings, the time that the peak of the epidemic passes".

We would all like to be able to do the same!

Many French channels had put themselves "on American time" to cover the election.

But in the United States, how did it go?

In the United States, obviously no time change, but phenomenal coverage.

Tuesday evening, no less than 21 American channels devoted their evening to the results of the elections which thus still did not arrive.

And the audiences were very good, but not phenomenal.

On average, 57 million viewers were tuned into one of these 21 channels, which still represents more than one in six Americans.

But this score is down sharply compared to the 2016 election. That evening, 71 million viewers attended, that's 20% more.

In detail, Fox News has emerged at the top of audiences, all channels combined, with nearly 14 million viewers, ahead of CNN at nine million and the third news channel, MSNBC, at seven million.

Three news channels in front of the big American chains: ABC is only to six million, that is to say 500,000 more than NBC.

What is interesting is that the news channels show more or less stable scores over four years, but it is the large chains that have collapsed.

By comparison, in 2016, the big four ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox had nine million more viewers than their combined score of 2020.

It's only November 5th, but according to the TV channels, it's Christmas already.

Since Monday, Christmas TV movies have invaded the TF1 and M6 program schedules as every year.

There were even some already on TNT channels last weekend.

It feels like it's happening earlier and earlier each year, and yet, we stay on roughly the same date as last year.

But according to M6's programming director, Christine Bouillet, the arrival of these holiday programs just after All Saints' Day is not premature.

Christine Bouillet says it, the arrival of these telefilms seems particularly welcome now that confinement has been decreed.

We also remember that last spring, M6 had chosen to bring out the Christmas TV movies, but quickly put them in the closet.

The public was not ready.

There, it seems to be and the public is not only ready, but also more numerous than last year, confinement requires.

On Monday, for example, there were 20% more viewers watching their TV in the TV movie box.

A box that will be more and more competitive as the holidays approach.

We tried to find out how we bought these films.

The programming of France 2 after 8 p.m. is about to change again.

Absent from the air for a few days, "Un si grand soleil" is about to make its return to the public channel sooner than one might have thought.

From November 9 (that is to say next Monday), the daily soap opera of La Deux will find its place at 8:40 p.m., just after the news.

A return that comes only ten days after its withdrawal.

It was the day after the reconfinement was announced.

The chain had decided to extend its newspaper of "20 Hours" to better cover the news, and it had evoked at the time an indefinite duration.

In the end, only ten short days were enough.

During this break, the teams of "Un si grand soleil" did not stop working, and therefore allowed the channel to store a few episodes in advance.

The upcoming arrival of MMA on TV.

MMA means Mixed Martial Arts, in French mixed martial arts.

It is a combat sport that the French channels will now be able to broadcast, following the agreement given by the CSA, the Superior council of audio-visual.

It is the French Federation of MMA which announced this Wednesday on Twitter.

There is a channel that already broadcasts MMA on its antenna, it is RMC Sport 4, which had found a trick: it was broadcasting the signal from Luxembourg.

No need for this kind of stratagem anymore, and the French MMA Federation will soon indicate under what conditions its events will be broadcast.

MMA is a violent sport.

Has the CSA supervised its dissemination?

Absolutely.

According to the newspaper "L'Equipe", the retransmission of MMA will not be recommended to those under 16 years old.

And free channels will be banned from broadcasting these meetings before 10:30 p.m.

A restriction that will not apply to paid channels and platforms, which will be able to offer MMA from 8:30 p.m.

This green light given by the CSA comes 15 years after its decision to ban this discipline on the air.

In 2005, the Superior Audiovisual Council ruled that this sport “undermined the dignity of the participants”, that it was “likely to seriously harm the physical, mental or moral development of minors” and even that it was "contrary to the safeguard of public order".