After the announcement of Bonjour !, TF1 news and sports director Thierry Thuillier has been interviewed (again) by Le Parisien’s Benoît Daragon. In this paywalled interview, he told the following tidbits:
- The show’s name is an homage to
Bonjour la France, TF1’s first foray into morning TV back in the 80s
- As previously told, the new show will focus on “vie quotidienne” issues (culture, lifestyle, health…) and compete mostly with
Télématin
- The new show won’t compete, but compliment LCI’s
Le 6/9; Jean-Baptiste Boursier and his team have been also advised on the programme’s pre-production status, and, as expected, won’t overlap too much in content (with LCI’s retaining its focus on politics, business and geopolitical issues, as with most of the network’s schedule), and Thuillier has confirmed a pilot recording was made last week
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Bonjour ! will take a cue of
Le 13h and will also feature more regional and patrimonial content, using TF1’s network of regional partners, with around 20 staff members in and outside Paris working for the show
- Thuiller says he wants to boost the audiences of both shows; in the case of
Bonjour !, he expects not to beat
Télématin and
Première édition from the start, but rather to make TF1 a third-place and/or podium finisher in the morning ratings race (as already told, TF1 is even behind CNews’ morning show and RMC Story’s simulcast of
Apolline Matin).
- Initial plans called to start the show at 6h30, but TF1’s children’s TV obligations led to the show starting at 7h;
TFOU will continue to air from an hour on weekdays on the main network, with the rest of the schedule switching to TFX and extending the main network's weekend schedule of cartoons (reports also previously rumoured); as for the other existing morning programme,
Téléshopping, it will now air after
Bonjour !, but more programming changes are expected when the contract with the Stars group, which produces and distributes the show, ends at the conclusion of 2025, with TF1 not renewing it
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