The French watched much more TV in 2020 than in 2019, 3:58 a.m. versus 3:40 a.m.

On the other hand, the news is bad for C8 and France 4, which sign the heaviest falls of the year.

This Tuesday, France Télévisions will present its new programs to the press, but some new features have already leaked such as the new investigative magazine of France 3 and a very specific interview program hosted by Thierry Ardisson.

Olivier Duhamel will no longer host the “Mediapolis” program on Europe 1. LCI will decide on the future of its presenter Darius Rochebin before the end of the month.

The shooting of films and series are once again at a standstill in Hollywood.

Another assessment, that of the TV audiences last year.

Figures given by Médiamétrie. 

First lesson: the French watched much more TV in 2020 than in 2019: + 18 minutes.

3h58 versus 3h40.

This is the consequence of confinements and the curfew.

This increase concerns all audiences, even if it is more pronounced among those over 50 than among the youngest.

This very special year has been extremely beneficial to the news channels, all four of which have their best historic audience.

On the other hand, the news is bad for C8 and France 4, which sign the heaviest falls of the year.

Today, France Télévisions will present its new programs to the press, but some new features have already leaked.

Starting with the new France 3 investigative magazine.

The public channel has found the successor of “Pièces à conviction”, which it has decided to stop at the end of 2020. It will launch a new magazine called “Sensitive Affairs” next March and presented by Fabrice Drouelle.

The program aims to reopen high profile investigations.

She will initially be interested in State affairs, such as the Clearstream or Bygmalion scandals.

Broadcast scheduled for the second part of the evening, at the rate of one issue per month.

Another new feature announced is a very special interview program hosted by Thierry Ardisson

It will be called “Hôtel du temps”, and the host will interview deceased personalities, such as Michel Serrault or Francis Bacon.

According to “Capital”, France Télévisions ordered a pilot of the show from Thierry Ardisson, who had left C8 in June 2019.

Olivier Duhamel will no longer host the “Mediapolis” program on Europe 1

The political scientist is accused by his stepdaughter, Camille Kouchner, of having sexually assaulted his stepson when he was a teenager.

She makes these revelations in her book “La Familia Grande”, which will appear the day after tomorrow, Thursday.

Olivier Duhamel has also resigned from his post as President of the Fondation des sciences politiques.

LCI will decide on the future of its presenter Darius Rochebin before the end of the month.

The boss of the TF1 group's news, Thierry Thuillier, wants to give himself a few more weeks before making his decision.

The Swiss journalist has been deprived of airtime since the publication at the end of October of a press article accusing him of sexual harassment within the RTS, his former employer.

LCI emphasizes that to date, no complaint has been filed against its journalist.

The focus program of the day is the documentary “Flick each other” tonight on France 5

He is largely interested in video surveillance.

There are more and more cameras in cities.

They are often presented as a weapon against insecurity, but some also see them as a tool for monitoring the population.

The director of the documentary, Olivier Lamour, explained to Louise Bernard what had prompted him to take an interest in this subject.

Answers that are difficult to find, because in some cases it would seem either that no one has them or that no one wants to give them.

Olivier Lamour at the microphone of Louise Bernard.

The documentary also looks at facial recognition, but also the most basic and oldest surveillance there is, human surveillance.

Associations of citizens who say they are vigilant do not hesitate to monitor what is happening around their homes, which raises the question of denunciation.

“Flick each other” is tonight on France 5 at 8:50 pm, followed by a debate moderated by Marina Carrère d'Encausse.

A first union at Google!

After months of tension and several internal scandals, employees of the American giant yesterday announced the creation of a union.

This approach is extremely rare within the GAFA, which do everything to avoid it.

The union's objective is obviously to defend the interests of employees and improve their working conditions, but not only that.

It also makes it his mission to ensure that the company adopts ethical conduct as technology occupies an ever-increasing place in society.

Hollywood movies and series are at a standstill again

Actors and Producers Unions urged all their members not to return to work after the holidays in the Los Angeles area.

In question, the continuous rise in cases of COVID in southern California.

Beyond the risks of contamination on film sets, it is also the simple accidents that the unions want to avoid, because Los Angeles hospitals are overloaded.

Filming should not resume until the third week of January at the earliest.

The streaming sector welcomes a new player

It was yesterday that Discovery launched its service, called Discovery +.

But the American cable giant is not really going to walk on the beds of Netflix or Disney +.

Its offer will in fact be composed almost exclusively of documentaries and cooking or decoration shows.

Discovery + is already available in the United States, United Kingdom and India.

His arrival in many European countries is scheduled for 2021 - but not in France.

Netflix's latest release is a huge hit

It's called “The Bridgertons Chronicle”, it was uploaded on Christmas Day.

And according to Netflix, it is expected to reach 63 million households in its first four weeks of availability - the 4th best start in history for a Netflix series.

“The Bridgerton Chronicle” is the first production by Shonda Rhimes, creator of “Grey's Anatomy,” since signing a very lucrative deal with Netflix valued at $ 150 million.

The ranking of the most pirated series of the year 2020.

At the head, “The Mandalorian”, the series derived from the universe “Star Wars”, diffused on Disney +.

It succeeds “Game of Thrones”, which ended in 2019 and which each year dominated this list of the most downloaded series via the BitTorrent software.

“The Mandalorian” is ahead of “The Boys” by Amazon Prime and “Westworld” by HBO, broadcast in France on OCS.