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On last night's C Médiatique, France 5's media analysis show, Anne-Sophie Lapix announced that her contract at the France 2 20h news is under review. When she was tapped to replace David Pujadas, she initially stated she didn't want to stay on the anchor desk beyond this year; however, France 2's 20h ratings have improved during her tenure, reaching a peak of almost 30% during the pandemic, but has gotten into more controversy and criticism from the opposition of pro-government bias, but going in the defense of Lapix for its aggressive interviewing style. To make things worse, Alexandre Kara, FTV's newly-appointed news director, is reportedly in odds with her, with Léa Salamé and Caroline Roux being in the front run to replace her from next season, and plans to make the show even more closer to TF1.

Still, she confirmed the enormous "cathedral" studio built in 2017 to unify all of France 2's news and current affairs programming into the same space is being demolished. Although announced as "revolutionary" at the time, its use has been downplayed and other shows which attempted to get into the same space (cue Télématin) found difficulties to shoot in the space whilst retaining their own formats. Additionally, the enormous size of the set causes journalists to get lost visually in it. A smaller set will be built during next summer, designed to be "much closer".

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