“PPD” Is just learning to his cost, and with him the entire team of Guignols de l’Info, that “we can laugh at anything but not with Bolloré “, to paraphrase Desproges? Since Wednesday evening, viewers and twittos influential friends of the house Canal and policies rather left sounding the alarm (see cons) : after twenty-seven years of loyal service satirical “in the clear “the show hosted by the fetish puppet PPDA is threatened with extinction, zappée of Canal + fall schedule! Even the Prime Minister has made it a matter of state, defending Thursday “impertinence” emissions satirical “we always need” . In the role of “commander Sylvestre,” Vincent Bolloré, the owner of the “World Company” Vivendi, which controls the 100% pay-TV group, has signed the death warrant of Guignol s. Couic.
Yacht. Always smiling but with a sense of humor all relative, man Breton Affairs had launched a thinly veiled threat against Puppets and the famous “Canal spirit” earlier this year. “The mockery of [...] sometimes it can be hurtful or unpleasant. Making fun of yourself, that’s fine, make fun of others is worse” Bollore said micro Lea Salamé, on France Inter. At Canal, one gets the message … but not loud. The same evening, the puppet of “Bollo” is questioned by PPD on what he meant by “ acceptable derision” … The fact is that, seven years later, the billionaire and his great friend n ‘skits were still smarting from Puppets who indulged themselves to their heart on “Sarko on holiday on the yacht of Bollo” the day after the 2007 election and “since he is our boss, Bolloré hate to see his double latex on the show, we are assured at Canal. However, treated like all our old boss, Messier has had his Jean-Marie Myself Master of the World. “
Since that warning shot, more nothing … until last week when the team of G uignols more precisely feels the wind of the ball. “We hear that at the beginning, everyday, it’s over, that at best there will be a weekly show on Sundays. Everything, coincidentally on the eve of the holidays and then they were preparing the show in September, says a collaborator of the show Libération . Nothing official, but we understand immediately that this is serious by seeing production draw a face ten feet long. “
After the death of Alain de Greef, who launched the show in 1988, drawing on Spitting Images British TV, the news of a bomb at the headquarters of the chain. “If this is confirmed, it’s really disgusting, Alain is not even buried we already spit on his grave and on what remains of the spirit Canal” , a pillar of storm the House. “The jihadists attacked Charlie and this is a big capitalist wants sulfater the Horns” quipped another.
Protest It’s commotion fighting at Canal where everyone until President Bertrand Méheut – is said in the beginning – fiercely defends the show. Marionnettisé also with his eternal cigar, the historic former CEO Pierre Lescure will even walk out of the Havas Board of Directors (owned by Bolloré) in protest. “I resigned at the news , announces he Thursday afternoon on the site Voices . This is also to have, if any, freedom to express myself. I hope I will not have to do … “ Canal + employees prepare for their part a vengeful statement in defense of Puppets.
Only that is, the killing of the show was still not confirmed Thursday evening. On his Twitter account, CanalSat even briefly indicates that “The Canal + group denies the issuance of arrest” . But the tweet is then removed. No comment at Vivendi. So what? Exit PPD? Completed “watching too much television” and puppets mocking both Nicolas Sarkozy that “changed for the worse” Francois “Heee” Holland, Jean-Louis “I feel an unemployed” Beffa that JoeyStarr in his “Benz Benz Benz” ? The plight of the Puppets does not yet seem entirely sealed, while a Vivendi’s board is scheduled to meet on Friday around Bolloré. On the menu, the recent acquisition of Dailymotion, the 15% rise in the share capital of Telecom Italia and … “reviving Canal +” according to our information. For beyond the Puppets , Bolloré seems determined to regain control of the pay channel. “It is his responsibility as a manufacturer,” hammered his entourage. Undermined by illegal downloading, competition from Netflix in film and BeIN in sport, the “model channel” to nearly 40 euros per month is made subject to strong turbulence. The chain still has 5.7 million subscribers but had 6.4 in 2008. And the hearings of Grand Journal competition from Cyril Hanouna show on D8 (chain sold by Bolloré ! Canal +) crumble: 1.2 million viewers on average this season against 1.5 in 2013. The average age of the subscriber, it has risen from 37 years in 1994 to 49 in 2014 .
“Locomotive”. “What is at stake is not the Puppets but the impetus to be given to Canal and Grand Journal “ button in the near bunch of” Bollo “. Vivendi boss would include installing Maïtena Biraben, presenter of Supplement in the chair of Antoine de Caunes in the sentence. “But delete Puppets, is anything but rational industrial decision. That would deprive the Grand Journal its locomotive audience and advertisers a vacuum cleaner, “ hallucinates a framework Canal. With peaks to 2 million viewers, the show PPD is 30% of the audience of the slice. However, once yesterday, among the 25,000 already signed a petition “Hands to Puppets,” some threatened to unsubscribe.
The suspicion of a political ukase is right there with the shadow of Sarkozy’s speech calling for the pitch of the “leftists” Canal + as a service to Bolloré: “Bollo wants to eliminate what remains of the evil spirit to prepare Canal Sarkozy’s candidacy, “ we hear in the corridors of the chain. If we look closer, Puppets are nevertheless sometimes less ironic that Le Petit Journal … and much less “destroy” Groland . We are no longer at the big time, who saw the puppet Bernadette Chirac have an orgasm by stroking her purse, Raymond Barre land in a porn movie or treated daily TF1 “box cons”. But in thirty years, the time has changed, the politically correct regained ground and the red line we can not cross in a prime time show is much more marked. Paradoxically, everywhere on television, this is the area of extension of the “LOL”. “The real mockery that Fuck the world leaders, bosses, shareholders and politicians, is increasingly threatened,” found a team member of the Puppets of info . So “A good night chao” PPD?
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