Canal Puppets + are back in encrypted Monday, December 14 after six months of low and very low with new authors, new format, new characters and new claims.
What role will PPD? What new puppet? Most importantly, The Puppets they will again be funny? Three months after the traditional TV comeback, puppets finally make them this Monday, December 14th at 20:50 for a 27th season, the most anticipated of their careers … and probably the most commented.
“I understand the wait but I do not feel the pressure. The fun took precedence over stress “ (se) reassures Yves Le Rolland. The historic producer of Puppets of info become The Puppets any short board since September on a new version requested (some would say required) by Vincent Bolloré.
This is however almost as The Horns never see the antenna. Early in the summer, the new strongman Canal, Vincent Bolloré, Chairman of the parent company Vivendi since June 2014, was the ax fall: “ Les Guignols de l’info will not end the antenna of Canal +. “ The news is almost phoned. Everyone knew the disenchantment of Breton for issuing its new flagship toy. On France Inter in February already, the captain of industry thundered: “I prefer when they are in the discovery that in derision. Because sometimes it’s a little hurtful or unpleasant. Making fun of yourself is good. Making fun of others is worse. “
It was not counting the popular uproar: Rise of social networks, online petitions, support politicians (Juppe replaced her picture on his Twitter account his puppet) theory plot (and got rid of Puppets Bolloré before the 2017 presidential to please his friend Sarkozy, graceful tenant his yacht in 2012?) and rather unfortunate timing (Alain de Greef, the show designer and pillar Canal dies at time of announcement) grow Bolloré to reconsider the proposal. Not without requiring serious changes.
The horn Kim Kardashian
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Kim Kardashian undergoes Puppets treatment.
We change almost everything
The change starts with the recruitment of a new team of authors. No Gad Elmaleh, Florence Foresti or Kader Aoun announced as the new conscripts are four: Frédéric Hazan, Nans Delgado, Matthew Burnel and Cedric Clemenceau. “We chose them from among a huge cast of 80 authors and diverse actors in September. They made me laugh “, justifies Rolland detailing: ” It is almost two couples, they used to write together, they already know. This is a band and that’s very important, to Puppets to have a collective writing. We had little time to work a lot. They had to agree immediately to go quickly. “ Hazan and Delgado are writers, they worked together on several film projects detailed on their online biographies of authors (including Bi with Franck Dubosq and Kad Merad) and while Burnel Clemenceau wrote parts and skits together. All have a TV experience: between mini-series Un gars, une fill e and Neighbors and chronic and texts at Marc-Olivier Fogiel, Thierry Ardisson or Nicolas Canteloup on TF1, impersonator defector … Puppets .
Names not really known to the public, but it has always been since the inception of the program in 1988. “All my authors have always had the same profile: a strong personality” says Yves Le Rolland
The newly elected come to fill the vacant seats of “too worn” <. /> em> (dixit the boss of Canal + Maxime Saada) Historical authors Julien Hervé and Lionel Dutemple (sixteen years with The Puppets ), Philippe Mechelen (seven) and Benjamin Morgaine (three years). Imitators, they are: Yves Lecoq (despite its reservations on Bolloré), Daniel Herzog and Sandrine Alexis, supported by the new boy Marc-Antoine Le Bret
No big landing then, but a blow. broom in everything that makes the fundamentals of the issue: PPD takes less importance to other caricatures of Journalists (David Pujadas, Elise Lucet, Laurent Delahousse), the appearance of frozen JT was abandoned in favor a newsroom news channel, which gives the opportunity to play with more characters and themes. Because it is the editorial line that has caused much ink during the long summer soap opera Puppets . Bolloré was said by critics exceeded puppets, especially on affairs at home (football rights, new management, etc.) and ready to put his paw to writing. He himself had read some skits and jokes proposed his own ideas. “He was not involved in the selection of authors, has not met them. And I doubt that, every day, between 4:00 p.m. and 4:30 p.m., he has time to read the sketches , tempers Yves Le Rolland in The Obs of December 10. I I explained how important it is to calm censorship fantasies. He understood. “ Goodwill sign, the puppet of the almighty Manitou Vivendi, created in February, will be present in the new formula.
The horn Donald Trump
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Donald Trump entered in Horns.
Internationalizing and scan the formula
On the merits, the new tone of the Puppets just result from the new formula: “There is no change in the editorial line and did not ask me to do less politics: it is always a topical issue and mocked by caricatured puppets” says Yves Le Rolland. With the idea of “pleasant change” , politics will always have its place internationally ( “On which we have always been very good: we created the World Company ago 25 years! “) too. Hence the puppet Donald Trump who lands with others. “Having more characters will allow us to address more subjects, including showbiz and pop culture, on which we took a little delay “, recognizes the producer. With a big splash couple Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. One goal given by the string. “internationalize topics”
Canal + does not skimp on human resources in that direction. “We are now working with American and Spanish imitators, to make the leap into the international puppetry. It’s very funny “, ensures the producer of the show which is itself rereading of an English show, Spitting Images (which lasted from 1984 – four years before The Arena of info first version of Puppets – in 1996). But the TV comedy Puppets Is French soluble internationally? “This is why we have adapters , ensures Rolland. I saw the first sketches adapted in English. This is super strong, I feel that it is no longer mine! The aim is not to translate every sketch, but the internationalization of the news has been: when dealing with Daech, everyone can understand. For Donald Trump, it is very fitting with the vision of Americans. For Obama by cons, we do not have the same. “
An international strategy that goes through the web kitchen: if The Puppets are broadcast encrypted at 20:50 (to pamper customers by offering them the premiere of a flagship product, it ensured the side of the chain), their skits will meet after the broadcast on the video platform Dailymotion (Vivendi ownership) before a clear broadcast on Sunday of all emissions of the week . “It has to have a large presence on the Internet so that young generations who have never seen Puppets on the TV, watching The recites Rolland. The broadcast c rypté, the plain and the Web are not directed at all the same people. Develop digital is necessary to cross borders and have an impact. “ With a stated aim, said as a joke but with a kernel of truth to bludgeon force of ” When Jimmy Fallon will call us to write a sketch a day at home, I’ll let you know . “
The Canal Web strategy also involves the ubiquitous social networks, with the recruitment of a team dedicated to these new uses: ” Write eight minutes daily fiction, c is huge. There are prolonging the spirit Puppets with a clean team at Twitter, Facebook and Instragram, which will result perhaps sketches, fake accounts, sketches, etc. “
A revolution for a program launched in 1988 and whose influence has been eroded over time. If their demise had raised an outcry, The Puppets does have nevertheless lost their verve. Less funny, less relevant, a little worn too. How long have they not also generated notable gimmicks that “Eat apples ” of Chirac in 1995 or “Super Liar” in the same puppet in 2002? “Today, if policies have something to fear, it is more on the side of Diary ” , recognizes the Slate the PS deputy of the Seine-Saint-Denis Daniel Goldberg. For teams Yves Le Rolland, it will actually make more relevant, more effective or – who knows? – Funnier than those of Yann Barthes. Especially as The Puppets will now be broadcast after.
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