BFMTV: when will Laurent Ruquier arrive on the news channel?

Recruited this summer by BFMTV after two decades spent on France Télévisions, Laurent Ruquier will make his offbeat return to the news channel at the head of the new show Ruquier’s 8 p.m.. The channel finally communicated this Monday on the launch date.

It’s one of the sensations of the back-to-school TV transfer window. After 23 years spent on France 2, Laurent Ruquier made the decision at the end of the season to leave public service. Marc-Olivier Fogiel, the boss of BFMTV, with whom he is friends, offered him this summer to join the continuous news channel. A new challenge for the host expected from Monday to Thursday between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. for take command of 8 p.m. from Ruquier with Julie Hammett, itself from LCI. But if the different faces of channel 15 made their return on August 28, the mystery still hovered over the arrival date of the host of the Big heads…

When will Laurent Ruquier’s show arrive on BFMTV and what is the concept?

Marc-Olivier Fogiel lifted the suspense this Monday in a tweet by announcing that the first number of 8 p.m. from Ruquier will be broadcast on Monday September 25 on BFMTV. In this one-hour segment, Laurent Ruquier will return to the three major topics of the day and will allow himself “a little step aside” on a subject which will have made less noise, as he confided in an interview to appear soon in Tele-Leisure. Around Laurent Ruquier and Julie Hammett, debaters will be present, but nothing has yet leaked about their identity. “I want us to discover them as the first week progresses. There are faces that viewers may already know and others that they don’t know at all. It will be a mixture“, the host explained to us.

Who will be part of Laurent Ruquier’s new band on BFMTV?

His new gang will be made up of around ten people, who will take turns depending on the day. “What I want is for them to be brilliant, to have things to say” continues Laurent Ruquier. On BFMTV, in its new slot, Laurent Ruquier will be in head-to-head competition with Pascal Praud on CNews. But as Marc-Olivier Fogiel recently affirmed in an interview given to Point : “The idea is not to compete with Pascal Praud on CNews. This is not a Ruquier-Praud match“. And to specify that the new face of BFMTV “will not do infotainment or an activist program, but information, debate, and more. Laurent Ruquier will bring his tone. It will be irreverent and non-conformist“.