Difficult return for The Evening Team. The famous second part of the evening talk show on the L’Equipe channel, which resumed at the beginning of last week, seems to be unanimously against him among viewers. Many people have in fact criticized the new version of the program, rid of its “president” Johan Micoud and most of its historical chroniclers to make way for new faces. Some feminine like Nicole Abar.
A change of direction assumed by the management, who also wanted to modify the mechanics of the show by removing its river and its duels, before backtracking in the face of the anger of the faithful of theEDS. Could this backpedaling continue in the coming weeks? Pierre Ménès, who is not a big fan of the program presented by Olivier Ménard, believes little in it and even believes that this decline is ultimately the business of the L’Equipe channel.
“This show doesn’t do anything for me, I don’t need to watch it. I just saw a few extracts on the networks. When you want to kill your dog, you say it has rabies. But here, it’s more like when you want to kill your dog, you inoculate him with rabies. This is a bit like what the boss of the channel did by decapitating this show”balances the former sports daily journalist and Canal+ consultant in his column
Facing Pierrotbroadcast on his YouTube channel.
“When you do everything so that the audiences fall, inevitably…”
“Now there are only four columnists left and I’m sorry, but this gender parity when talking about men’s football doesn’t make sensehe judges. It doesn’t make any sense and I think that the audiences will be extremely affected and that, at the end of the season, the boss of the channel will have no problem stopping the show because he will say that the audiences are in free fall. When you do everything to ensure that audiences fall, inevitably…”
No figures have yet been released on the number of viewers of The Evening Team since his return to the air at the end of August. But, last March, the rumor of an end to the show after the 2026 World Cup had already circulated.
Paris Match revealed that Vincent Broussard, the director of the channel, was considering putting an end to it because its audience had declined significantly in recent years. If it has since been maintained, nothing says that it will last…
