An announcement which had created anger among viewers… Friday October 27, 2023, France Télévisions confirmed the cessation of the show The health magazine, after 25 years on the air. If it ends in a few weeks, it will finally continue to be broadcast! Sunday May 5, 2024, Stéphane Sitbon-Gomez, the boss of France Télévisions programs announced the good news in the columns of The gallery. “I always listen to the concerns that are expressed. I clearly saw that the suppression of the Health Magazine had caused a stir. I understand the attachment to this historic France 5 program and we have finally decided to extend it.”, he revealed. However, the medical show will continue without Marina Carrère d’Encausse, who has presented it since 1998. In fact, it is Jimmy Mohamed who will be “in charge every day”. News that delighted Internet users, many of whom reacted on X (formerly Twitter). “It’s good news. This show is useful. He’s a good doctor.” ; “Awesome !”we can indeed read.
170 personalities mobilized for The Health Magazine
On January 19, 2024, in a collective text published in the Figaronearly 170 personalities, including the former Minister of Health Agnès Buzyn, attended mobilized so that the show was not deleted. “We, patients and their representatives, […] cannot resolve the disappearance announced for September 2024 of this flagship public service program, which has no equivalent on any other channel and which, for more than 25 years, has accompanied the French on a daily basis, including during Covid , to ensure its public mission of information and prevention”, could we read in it. Thursday April 18, 2024, on the set of C to youon France 5, Michel Cymes, who co-presented the show from 1998 to 2018, had deplored that there would no longer be a regular medical broadcast, “while it is the second most important point highlighted by the French after purchasing power”. Angry, the famous doctor then assured that The health magazine was “a collateral victim of a war between the majority shareholder of the production house which is TF1 and France Télévisions”.