A new French Late Show, fronted by popular actor, director and writer Alain Chabat launched on France’s TF1 amid much fanfare this week in France’s latest attempt to crack the format. Running…
, Conan O’Brien and all the others. We’re going to take the codes of the late show and try to pass a funny hour with people.”There is the big desk, a night-time skyline view in the backdrop , a resident group called the Laters, a host of starry guests, mainly from the French cinema world thus far, and buzzy live music acts.
Subsequent shows have featured actors Debbouze, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Monica Bellucci and Laurent Lafitte and live music by French rapper Orelsan and L.A. band Thumpasaurus. France has a long history of trying to create its own late-night talk shows, with the likes of TV presenter Arthur and former Cannes Film Festival president and journalist Pierre Lescure taking up the challenge in the past with limited success.Weekly TV and culture magazinesuggested Chabat had gotten as close as anyone to pulling it off, in an article headlined “For once, it’s as good as the Americans”.
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