Call it perseverance! After packing up on the show Deal done to join the ranks of radio Europe 1 with a new show called Sophie and friendsSophie Davant does his big return to television at the start of the year at the head ofIn good company, an animal program and more particularly focused on our domestic animals, broadcast every Saturday on France 3, from January 20. The opportunity for the host to give an interview and confide in this inevitably eventful start to the media season. With our colleagues from TV magazinethis Tuesday, January 9, Sophie Davant spoke about her new show, but also about its mixed success on the radiowhose audiences are really struggling to take off.
Without tongue in cheek, the host and journalist acknowledged the facts: “I had no hope of settling down in record timeeven less to perform miracles against the Big Heads of Laurent Ruquierbroadcast at the same time on RTL” she first declared, before also explaining her failure by the decline in audiences for the two shows preceding her in the schedule: “Not only is it difficult to impose a new appointment, but it is even more difficult when you move on after two declining programs” analyzed the one who is also known for always having had short haircuts. However, there is no question of her giving up, success is still possible, as she has already proven: “You have to adapt the right dosages, find the right recipe. Watch ‘Deal Done’: when we started in 2017, no one believed it. We started with barely 300,000 viewers. But we worked to put the right ingredients. And in one year, we had multiplied the audiences by six! Believe me, I haven’t said my last word. I’m a warrior and I’m not going to give up!” she proudly assured our colleagues. It remains to be seen in the future whether success will indeed be there!
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Recently, Sophie Davant also spoke about her appearance on the show As an aside on Canal+. During her visit to Nathalie Lévy’s studio, the host returned to the sudden end of its flagship show for 20 years, It’s on the programbut also on his relationship with his lifelong producer, friend and supporter in the media world, William Leymergie: “I grew up alongside him. I was his spiritual little sister, we can say. And then, I had to free myself from this sponsorship, we will say. It wasn’t easy when the student started to go beyond the limits that William had tried to impose. We argued a lot about choice of showsetc… Which is normal in editorial conferences”. Disputes which have never tainted the feelings they have for each other, to the point that even today, by Sophie Davant’s own admission, William Leymergie remains his “best encounter” made in the course of his professional activity.
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