Over 20 years of experience as a presenter of talk shows on various channels, Laurent Ruquier has become a key figure on the small screen. In this fall of 2023, he is the new recruit of BFM TVwhere he will host his own daily show from the end of Septembersimply named Ruquier’s 8 p.m.. Also presented by Julie Hammett – also the new face of the continuous news channel – the meeting will offer debates with several guests and commentators around the news. “We will come back to the two or three biggest topics of the day. But I will also try to find information that has not been processed”, he says in an interview with Parisian Saturday, September 2, 2023. A news, often burning, that the presenter of 60 years wishes to approach under “a different light […] all in [s]’adapting’ to the news channel continuously. Between derision and criticism, the tone that characterizes him will not be left aside. Also, the one who willingly defines himself as “the cheekiest” because “not a journalist” has not compromised on another principle that is close to his heart.
Laurent Ruquier: “the only thing I kept”
Aware of the competition from Pascal Praud at the same time on CNews and the political differences that set them apart, Laurent Ruquier nevertheless seems ready to fight. “Since my debut, I like to hear all the opinions”, he asserts confidently. He also specifies that there is a principle to which he will not derogate in any case: the processing of information via press cartoons. “It’s the only thing I kept from my previous shows. It’s non-negotiable because you have to defend the press cartoon. We’re Charlie or we’re not!”he exclaims in the columns of the Parisian. Illustrations that shed a different and often relevant light, but also a symbolic tool, charged with meaning at the heart of fast-paced, dense and sometimes difficult to understand news. Viewers will have to wait a few more weeks before discovering Laurent Ruquier far from France 2.