"Télématin": Flavie Flament and Julien Arnaud ordered to leave their posts

Places are expensive and uncertain at France Télévisions . According to information from Le Parisien on Wednesday, July 2 , France Télévisions' news director, Alexandre Kara, informed his flagship morning presenter, Flavie Flament, of her " sidelining " from next season, during a luncheon organized on Tuesday, July 1. Along with her, Julien Arnaud, her partner in this time slot from 6 to 9 a.m., is also leaving.

The dismissed duo was nevertheless offered to host the show on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, the daily continues. To take their place, it is the current weekend duo, composed of Maya Lauqué and Damien Thévenot, in place for four years, who would move from Monday to Thursday. This is not the first change announced by the group, chaired by Delphine Ernotte since 2015. Already, the departure of Anne-Sophie Lapix from the 8 p.m. news on France 2, replaced by Léa Salamé , had been announced during the month of June.

It was the audience figures, down slightly to 650,000 viewers, that precipitated this departure, after only one season, a qualitative study commissioned by the channel concluding that the figures for their weekend counterparts were much better, according to Le Parisien . During the week, Télématin had been beaten by its competitors TF1, 300,000 viewers, and CNews, 250,000. Bonjour , presented by Bruce Toussaint, also recorded a record audience during its show broadcast on Tuesday, July 1, according to figures from Puremedia .

This is a tough blow for both presenters, who will end their time on this slot on July 14th. Julien Arnaud left TF1 after 27 years at the Boulogne tower, where this LCI figure had also served as a joker on the 8pm weekend news. For her part, Flavie Flament, a star presenter in the 2000s, notably at TF1, was also one of the voices of RTL, where she had been working since 2010.