— What an era! : lines Ruquier, Dechavanne, Mélenchon… all about Léa Salamé’s new Saturday night show

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Léa Salamé presents the new weekly program France 2 with Christophe Dechavanne. La Dépêche has all the information you need to know about this talk show that airs every Saturday night.

This Saturday, September 24, at 11:10 p.m., Léa Salamé will revive the traditional Saturday night on France 2, which she has hosted since 2006. monopolized by Laurent Ruquier. Her new show Quelle époque! will be a talk show dedicated, as its name suggests, to “tell the time and take the pulse of society.” According to the website French TVit joins the tradition of Saturday talk shows: “a place where we relax”, sure, but which must also be a space for “free speech and cheekiness”.

A new challenge for the presenter

Léa Salamé now hosts the second part of the evening show France 2, which she hosted again last year with Laurent Ruquier in the We are live interview. A new challenge for the host: “I’m stepping out of my comfort zone,” she explained, especially since Us Live was pulling in 900,000 viewers every Saturday, 13.1%, and that has to take over. from the presenter, who occupied this position for 16 years.

“I grew up watching Ardisson,” she says, from 1998-2006. hosting Everyone’s Talking About It: The goal is to host a talk show of this magnitude. Therefore, Léa Salamé left France 2’s political program to devote herself to France Inter’s morning show and this weekly talk show.

This new high Saturday evening mass will be held with two other personalities: Christophe Dechavanne, the “regular guest of the show”, can intervene at any time, and a third friend, Philippe Caverivière, will also make several appearances on the show. Show. But as Christophe Dechavanne, who himself hosted TF1 in the 90s, says, “Léa is the boss,” headlines the show.

From Mélenchon to TikTok Priest

Léa Salamé sees her talk show as a “meeting place, a mix of genres”: a way to understand this “crazy, exciting, disturbing” era, with the help of political and cultural guests, media regulars, eminent personalities. .

According to our colleagues from Figaroamong the guests of the first show we will find Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who, among other things, should be questioned about the Quatennens scandal and its conflicting comments. We’ll also be listening to Nicky Doll talking about her show Drag Race France. Yann Moix, Laurence Ferrari (who will be speaking about her new position as editor-in-chief of the political section Paris Match) Father Matthieu, priest of Tik Tok stars, as well as Marco Mouly and other personalities.

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