Guests, concept… What we know about “Late with Alain Chabat” on TF1

• Alain Chabat will host ten issues of

  Late with Alain Chabat

  from November 21, 2022 at 9:55 p.m. on TF1.

• The actor and director thus concretizes an "old dream", made possible by the World Cup in Qatar.

  The sporting event upsets the program schedule of the first channel which can thus temporarily install a new daily appointment in the second part of the evening.

  Alain Chabat specifies that he “would not have signed for a year”.

• Pre-recorded and out of step with current events, the program is inspired by American late shows with the touch of humor that makes the success of each of Alain Chabat's television appearances.

  The latter promises that it will not be "hollow entertainment", but "wanted to create something fun to watch".

He is about to realize an “old dream” and wants above all “to have fun”.

Alain Chabat will soon be at the head of his own

- "end-of-night show" in French - on TF1.

The highly anticipated first issue will be released on November 21, the day the World Cup kicks off in Qatar.

Fan of the format, Alain Chabat had lost hope of one day being able to put on the costume of the "white clown" in order to give the reply to guests in a daily program.

“The French television schedules are not at all like those of the American channels which are organized on the half-hour and on the hour.

I had said to the management of TF1: "If one day you change your whole schedule, I would love to do a show every evening at 11 p.m.."

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Ara Aprikian, deputy director general of content for the first channel, offered him the 9:55 p.m. slot, in the wake of the World Cup matches and the magazine dedicated to the event.

The show will last for ten issues, during the group stage, where no extension can disrupt the program schedule.

“I could only say yes”, assured the former member of Dummies, during a press conference organized this Wednesday.

"I wouldn't have signed for a year," he said.

The ex-Nuls are “boiling hot”

Concretely, what will this umpteenth attempt to adapt, with French sauce,

look like - let's remember that, until then, all those who have tried it have broken their teeth -?

Alain Chabat sets the scene: “These will be broadcasts in public, on a very simple set furnished with a desk, armchairs and equipped with a screen with a view of a city [Helsinki, in Finland] at night.

“He will begin each number with a monologue before welcoming a main guest who will give him the answer in a “co-written” exchange.

He will thus work with the same team of authors as that which was at work in

on TMC.

“We know that these interviews are a little prepared but the preparation depends on the guest because everyone has their own way of being comfortable,” he underlines.

Each evening, an artist will deliver a live musical performance on the set and other stars will make more furtive appearances.

Among the personalities invited, are already announced: Jean Dujardin, Monica Bellucci, Angèle, Orelsan, Etienne Daho, as well as Catherine Ringer, Mathieu Chedid, Laurent Lafitte or even Lena Situations… All generations will therefore be represented.

Only profile excluded from the outset: politicians.

Unlike his American counterparts, the host refuses to talk politics on his show.

Will Chantal Lauby and Dominique Farrugia, his former acolytes of Dummies be there?

“We are thinking about nonsense but obviously they are boiling hot”, confides Alain Chabat.

“Total freedom” as at Canal+ thirty years ago

A few recorded sequences will punctuate the program episodically, but the host assures that they will not be at the center of his

.

Above all, he hopes to keep the spirit of a “public show” with “more or less improvisation depending on the guests”.

The show will not be broadcast live because the studio hosting the set was not available at the end of November.

"It allows you to try things, from time to time it passes and from time to time you miss... The guests can be more relaxed while being in the adrenaline of a show in public, which gives the potato," says Alain Chabat.

He specifies that the post-production work will consist more of "cleaning up" than editing.

"We remove small silences, we cut small soft times...", he lists.

If he seems comfortable defending his concept at a press conference, Alain Chabat admits that he “was paralyzed with fear” during the first recordings.

"I was told: 'You have ten one-hour shows and you can have fun with that,'" he jokes.

A kind of carte blanche which allowed him to find “total freedom” close to that which he knew on Canal + at the time of Dummies, thirty years ago, he assures.

The recordings started a few days ago.

There is therefore no question of bouncing on hot news.

The host specifies that he will however address “strong themes which we are sure will unfortunately still be in the news in a few weeks.

“And to add:” I want to offer entertainment.

That's not to say it's going to be hollow entertainment, but I wanted to create something fun to watch.

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