The reign without sharing, sports, variety and reality-tv the Saturday night television is threatened. Because after thirty years of absence, the long-feature films make their grand return in this box very strategic, as reported by our colleagues from Paris, Friday 17 July 2020. This veritable revolution in crt is due to the repeal of the decree n° 90-66, which, in 1990, has itself eliminated the film out of the screens on Wednesday and Friday evening, Saturday and whole Sunday before 20: 30. The purpose of the text ? Protect the movie theatres of their little sister.
A decree deemed obsolete by the television channels, while Netflix and VOD platforms allow their users to vibrate in front of a gigantic catalog of movies when they feel like it. After three decades of tyranny, the text should therefore be removed by the next reform of the audiovisual sector.
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It is not going to change the habits of viewers from one day to the next day.
Some channels were not waiting for this announced death to reconnect with the movie Saturday night. M6 has provided the 11 July of last year to its viewers, Le Petit Nicolas. And the private channel will cover Saturday, July 18, by releasing the following : The Vacation of the Little Nicolas. The group had taken care to obtain permission to distribute the films he was co-products.
" It's been twenty years that is being questioned here. It's an anomaly, especially today, at a time when the SVOD can offer movies at any time, that the tv channels to finance films and could not disseminate when they want to ", persifle-t-on in the corridors of the M6.
the Only downside to the chain of Nicolas de Tavernost : hearings. Le Petit Nicolas has gathered "only" 1.8 million viewers (9.4% audience share), says The Parisian. But the group holds out hope : "we know that We are not going to change the habits of viewers from one day to the next day. "
