The appointment is made. This Wednesday, Flavie Flament will drop off her suitcases and especially the cameras of “Flavie en France”, her daily itinerant show, at the end of the Port of Château d’Oléron, as reported on the website of the town hall of the town of Charente-Maritime, located in the south-east of the island of the same name.
Along the Vauban citadel, the weather looks good for the filming of the last issues of the season, which will be broadcast on France 3 from June 22 to 26 from 11:20 a.m., the slot that Flavie Flament has occupied since last November. But the presenter should present that day the last of her daily which brings to life the cult “Schmilblic” by Guy Lux.
According to our information, France Télévisions must formalize this Monday evening to producer Jérôme Revon the non-renewal of its show. The reason? The serious savings that the public group must make on its program offering for next season. And the far too low audiences for “Flavie en France” with 138,000 loyal fans every day, or 3.6% market share for the 88 unpublished issues broadcast since the launch (without counting the 42 best of). Far from the 8.8% average audience share recorded by the regional channel over the entire month of April 2026.
“It would be a shame if it stopped because it’s the only show that talks about the regions at the national level. A real public service broadcast at the time of the commission of inquiry into public broadcasting… “regrets a small part of the program for which “Midi en France”, produced by the same teams between 2011 and 2019 and presented successively by Laurent Boyer, Vincent Ferniot then Jean-Baptiste Boursier, was better programmed, closer to noon, when many French people turn on the television.
Very bad timing
“The show is only 6 months old since we only started in November,” breathes another employee who recalls that last Thursday the stopover in Royan for “Flavie en France” brought together 259,000 viewers, or 5.3% of the public.
This decision comes at very bad timing for the public group as for the host, at the heart of the news since she filed a complaint on Wednesday against the singer Patrick Bruel and explains having been drugged and raped at the singer’s home in 1991, when she was 16 years old She said she was “stunned” by the defense of the artist’s lawyers.
Following this legal agenda, Flavie Flament also requested the postponement of her meeting with the France Télévisions program management set well before her filing of the complaint. A reprieve that she hopes will be profitable, especially since the host has no plan B at France Télévisions since she refused to resume the game “Family Duels”, after the departure of Cyril Féraud. “This doesn’t send a very supportive signal,” laments the host’s entourage.
