Louise Bernard, with Alexis Patri
After the very disappointing audiences of the first issue of his new show “L’Hôtel du temps” on France 3, TV host Thierry Ardisson confides in the newspaper “Le Parisien – Today in France” about the future of the program and the way he questions himself after these bad scores.
Last April, the launch with great fanfare of the show The hotel of time did not find its audience. Thierry Ardisson, creator and host of the new France 3 program confides for the first time on this failure, in an interview with our colleagues from the newspaper Le Parisien – Today in France. He says he was “terribly affected”, “disappointed” and “dejected” by the level of audience. The first issue of the show had attracted only 1.4 million viewers, or 6.8% audience share. A score well below what Thierry Ardisson expected.
According to the explanations of the host in the newspaper Le Parisien – Today in France, the problem is not the program itself, since the people who watched liked it. To affirm this, Thierry Ardisson relies in particular on a quality survey and on audience curves, which show that the viewers who came stayed in front of the show. The problem is that the public did not come to France 3.
“The public thought I was interviewing Dalida for an hour and a half”
The creator of The hotel of time questions itself. He thinks he promoted his show badly. “The public, who saw me doing interviews for 35 years, believed that I was interviewing Dalida for an hour and a half, when it is a documentary stuffed with archives, a biopic”, he explains. in this interview.
The question about the future of the show arises. When a program gets a bad rating, it is often threatened. But this is not the case for The hotel of time : the management of France Télévisions still wants another number, on Coluche, before that on Jean Gabin which is already ready to be broadcast.