Controversial French TV host Cyril Hanouna will “begin a brand new chapter” when he launches his M6 chat present in September, based on M6 boss David Larramendy.
Larramendy addressed reviews head on that Hanouna is quickly becoming a member of M6 for a pre-evening present on the W9 community, which is available in per week that Hanouna criticized an M6 radio host and ended his long-running collection Touche Pas à Mon Poste! (Don’t Contact My TV Set!)
“Cyril Hanouna may be very proficient, is among the final TV stars and all audiences can relate [to him],” Larramendy informed Collection Mania at the moment. “We don’t wish to exclude anybody. He has mentioned issues that had been unsuitable and issues we disagreed with and we informed him. He’s beginning a brand new chapter.”
Larramendy mentioned Hanouna’s new present will avoid politics. “We’re not a political firm and don’t intend to do political so it is going to be leisure,” he mentioned.
The outspoken Hanouna has landed himself in scorching water a number of instances prior to now. Larramendy mentioned M6 and Hanouna “had a dialog” earlier this week after he criticized his soon-to-be M6 presenting colleague Bruno Guillon.
Elsewhere throughout a wide-ranging Collection Mania session, Larramendy spotlighted how M6 is now not reliant on American imports to fill its schedules.
Based on Larramendy, M6 was airing American reveals on 150 nights per yr a decade in the past and that quantity has now been lower down to simply 30.
“So we changed 120 applications,” he mentioned. “U.S. TV collection have turn into platform based mostly merchandise and they’re profitable however we don’t actually present them on linear TV anymore. So the 120 had been changed by native investments – we do collection, new manufacturers, docs and different reveals.”
The community has difficult targets to double its variety of hours considered on new streamer M6+ by 2028 whereas tripling gross sales and Larramendy mentioned the Bertelsmann-owned outfit “might actually be early” hitting these targets, after seeing hours considered rise from 75 million hours to 100 million final yr.
He was talking at Collection Mania earlier than the bosses of France Télévisions and Arte.
