For 17 years, the Camping Paradis series which features Laurent Ournac has found its audience on TF1. This Monday, August 21, 2023, the star of the program confided in our colleagues from Télé Loisirs in order to discuss the evolution of the series, the special episodes broadcast during the summer but also the drop in audience recorded by the series. televised.
In 2006, the first episode of Camping Paradisea series imagined by Michel Alexandre, is broadcast on the channel TF1. A family program, without violence or vulgarity, which will quickly seduce some of the viewers of the first channel. The proof, seventeen years after the pilot was broadcast by the TF1 group, Camping Paradise still finds its place on the network’s television schedule. This summer, the production also made the decision to broadcast new episodes which had the effect of creating a kind of summer soap opera, to which the public seems to have hooked.
Like most television productions, the series which honors Laurent Ournac as the manager of a summer campsite, has had its ups and downs. “The series has been around for seventeen years and we have experienced low ratings! We were even told that we were finished, corny…”thus confided the actor in the columns of TV Star on the occasion of the broadcast of a new episode this Monday, August 21.
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Laurent Ournac: “There is an audience”
Would the Camping Paradis series be in the hot seat? The star of the program does not seem to believe it, especially since the new episodes broadcast during the summer of 2023 have met with some success, thee latest to date having attracted no less than 4.5 million viewers. Satisfactory performances for the actor, all the more so in the context of the crisis that the television sector is currently experiencing. “It’s touching, especially since the overall television audience has been declining in recent years. But we achieve the best scores of the week on TF1 as a bonus!”, he explained.
A success that he attributes to the soap opera side of the summer given to the intrigues by the broadcast of several episodes in a row. For Laurent Ournac, the place occupied by the program sometimes described as outdated has its place. “There is an audience for series like this, like for More beautiful life that comes back or like for Joséphine, guardian angel!”, he explains.
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The Versaillese even left the capital to settle under the Provençal sun, in Aix-en-Provence, to be closer to the location of the filming which takes place around Martigues. “For two years, I have been living in Aix-en-Provence where we are already on vacation. In July, it was barbecue, boat trips and restaurants with family and friends”, he details.
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