Sophie Davant on the shutdown of La Lettre: "I didn’t go to cry" (VIDEO)

“The letterthis show where you arranged meetings between celebrities and their biggest fans, it’s like the red stamp, is it definitely over?” Éric Dussart did not go overboard with Sophie Davant, who was his guest in We redo the TV on RTL this Saturday, January 28. “I think so”replied the entertainment host. “More, Frank Sauratone of the two producers, is deadSo here is…”she added. “I really liked this show, I really liked the idea of ​​highlighting anonymous people and paying tribute to them. I find that frankly, it was a beautiful show, well produced, elegant, moving…“however specified the presenter of the program which was not without making think of Stars at home presented by Flavie Flament on TF1 in the early 2000s. With the difference that on France Télévisions, the surprises aimed to highlight and reward everyday heroes in a certain way.

Buried for the benefit of The secret box by Faustine Bollaert?

“What was fatal to him? His audience? Its cost? The difficulty in finding personalities?, asked Éric Dussart to Sophie Davant. After a good curiosity effect on November 16, 2019 for its first issue followed by 2.3 million viewers (12.5% ​​audience share), The letter subsequently reached fewer recipients. On January 16, 2021, a new formula had succeeded in crossing the 2 million mark (10.1% audience share). A barely correct score that did not manage to make people forget the evening of February 1, 2020 which only brought together 1.5 million viewers (8.3% audience share). But for his host, the problem was not there. “The audiences weren’t that bad. (…) I think the management had choices to make, savings to make. There’s another show called The secret box. They have decided between the two, that’s it. These are things that happen”she tried to explain.

“I didn’t go cry!”

“And then, it was a co-production between Franck Saurat, Anne Marcassus and Mathieu Vergne. It’s not always easy to co-produce a show. So did they really fight to keep this show? There are all these issues.”continues Sophie Davant. “But hey, I didn’t go cry. I regret it because I liked this show, but I didn’t go cry to the management”specified the one who had been very shocked by the judgment of It’s on the program few years ago. “And why ?”asked the presenter ofWe redo the TV. “Because it’s not in my nature, and I like to be force of proposals, but not whining and complaining. I’m still not unhappy. I am still present in two daily shows. There is worse, what“, she concluded. It is therefore very likely that the letters sent to the production by the viewers will remain dead letters…

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