This is the return of a flagship show: The New Explorers. The director of documentaries of Canal+ Christine Cauquelin had announced it exclusively onCulture Media last January 17: the new explorers are back on the road, eight years after the end of this program which was broadcast on Sunday afternoons between 2007 and 2014. Who better to inaugurate the return of this program than Jérôme Delafosse, a diver discovered on the show and who had criss-crossed the planet on the weekly show.
Jérôme Delafosse back
With his new documentary series titled Jerome, eyes in the blue, Jérôme Delafosse is back in service. This time, direction South America, North America and Africa. He tells the microphone of Europe 1 why he is delighted with the return of this program on Canal +: “It’s an important part of my life, it was for me one of the most beautiful ways to travel to incredible places and especially to share the daily life of peoples that I would probably never have had the opportunity to meet.”
On the program of this documentary series, Jérôme Delafosse will swim with crocodiles and sharks in the sumptuous coral reef of Banco Chinchorro in Mexico. “What I owe New Explorersit is above all to have opened my eyes to the world and to other cultures”, he says.
He will go to meet indigenous peoples on the glacier of the Andes Cordillera at 5,000 meters above sea level, but also in the heart of the rainforest on Vancouver Island in Canada. “What I also like is that each explorer, while being legitimate in our fields, we don’t take ourselves seriously, it’s part of the program’s DNA,” he says.
An ecological message to convey
Through these expeditions and encounters, Jérôme Delafosse never loses sight of the ecological message he seeks to convey in his films: the “indigenous peoples” encountered “have the common point of not having severed their link with nature, with the living, unlike us.”
“The idea is not to learn to live like them but to draw inspiration from their outlook, their philosophy, to learn to live better with this biodiversity that surrounds us, to protect it when it is more threatened than ever,” he said.
“It’s very important for me to make people dream in order to raise awareness”
In addition to the former members of the show like Jérôme Delafosse or Fred Chesneau, The New Explorers will also be embodied by a new generation. The next episodes will show, for example, the expeditions of Alexia Duchêne, the 26-year-old chef who we discovered in Top chefbut also Victor Bergeon, a young explorer who survived a serious illness, and Nadia Mechaheb, a PE teacher and hip-hop dancer.
The return of New Explorers is scheduled for Thursday evening at 9 p.m. on Canal+, and it starts with the first two episodes of the documentary series produced by Imagissime and Radar Film.