TF1's deprogrammed female Euro?

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By: Manu Tournoux

After having preferred the final of the PSG-Chelsea Club World Cup in the Bleues, TF1 reserves the right not to broadcast the semi-finals and the final of the Women's Euro if France is not qualified.

In a press release published on September 28, 2023, the TF1 group was “Happy to announce the acquisition” of the 2025 women's Euro in Switzerland, with the purchase of TV rights “Exclusively and in full of the 31 games of this prestigious competition”. Prestigious competition, really? TF1 might should have clarified that his first channel would especially retransmit the meetings of the French women's team during this European Nations Championship. And again!

After having given the broadcast of the second blue match against Wales (4-1) to France TV, TF1 created a small controversy by tilting the Club World Cup final between PSG and Chelsea (0-3) on the front page, last Sunday, at the expense of the third group of groups of Laurent Bonadei players against the Netherlands (5-2). And the meeting was finally broadcast by France 2!

Delphine Cascarino and her teammates are back on TF1 on Saturday evening, at 9 p.m., for a quarter-final against Germany (their executioner in the semi-finals of Euro 2022 in England). Grégoire Margotton and Bixente Lizarazu, who switched to PSG-Chelsea last Sunday, will be at the comments of the tricolor playful match. In the hope of offering a terrible France-Spain semi-final, Wednesday 23 (still at 9 p.m.).

TF1 would prefer a film noted 1.5/5

On the other hand, if the Bleues leave the tournament in Swiss land, TF1 left to retransmit the semi-finals, or even the final of the competition, on Sunday 27 at 6 p.m. It could however be a superb English-Spain poster, the confrontation between the two best female selections of the old continent, with stars players on both sides. For a remake of the final of the 2023 World Cup, which had been broadcast by France 2 (at 12 noon, certainly).

The TF1 site does not hide it, “Alternatives”
are announced in the TF1 programs grid. Wednesday's semi-final without France would be sent to TMC and replaced by
Taxi 3, A 2003 film produced by Luc Besson which has the dreadful note of 1.5/5 on Allociné. Sunday 27, without the presence of the Blue, the final of the Women's Euro would give way to Seven to eightthe traditional magazine presented by Harry Roselmack, from 5:20 p.m.