Overview
- France Inter and France 2 announced a joint Sunday interview show hosted by Benjamin Duhamel that will run live for 40 minutes starting at 13:20 and debut on 30 August.
- France Télévisions information director Philippe Corbé and France Inter director Céline Pigalle said the co-broadcast aims to pool public-broadcaster resources to give voters a stronger forum for campaign debate.
- Benjamin Duhamel, 32, is the lead voice of France Inter’s morning interviews, previously worked at BFMTV, and also took part in France 2’s municipal-election coverage.
- The move follows a formal notice from the audiovisual regulator Arcom to Radio France over under‑representation of the Rassemblement national, and France Inter’s leadership has pledged to respect pluralism rules.
- France Télévisions is also reported to be reviving the historic political programme L'Heure de Vérité as part of a wider fall schedule reshuffle, a change that could restore longer, in-depth interviews to the public schedule.