How to evoke intimate discussion of L’autre midi at the table next door?

The show’s designer, Francis Legault, admits he’s the type himself pull his ear in the restaurant, the place where the famous series is anchored. You have to take care of mehe said laughing.

This is not without reason: the relaxed atmosphere of a meal in a public place facilitates personal discussions and anecdotes, and is therefore ideal for discovering Quebec artisans and workers from an intimate angle, according to him.

What’s really very interesting about the formula Another noon at the next table, there is no facilitator. Neither of the two has control over the otherexplained Francis Legault.

The two people at the table therefore influence each other, according to him: one trust can lead to another, whereas a question vachounette can also cause change brittle.

Let’s remember when comedian Mariana Mazza and host Patricia Paquin, talented players, both questioned their lives as a couple last season.

Choose the right people

For its hands-off formula to work, the show Another noon at the next table should, however, feature auxiliary persons. A challenge that is not always easy to face, according to Francis Legault.

You never know what will happen, he says. For us when we record a show as guests.

The high-energy meeting between Anne Dorval and Julie Snyder particularly reacted to the public last year.

It’s two top women, two women who aren’t made to do what they don’t want tosaid the designer.

Julie, in general, everyone loves her, everyone is willing to give her a thumbs up, but there she meets someone who doesn’t say yes if she doesn’t think yes.he said laughing.

To shoot a show, you still need to convince public figures to go and sit in the fictional restaurant of Another noon at the adjacent table.

This is an even easier exercise, according to Francis Legault.

People want to go because they know we’re not looking for gossip. Intimate, but not gossip. At [leur expérience] can be useful for peoplehe said.

From radio to TV

Before appearing on TV, Another noon at the next table had a life mainly on radio for many years.

Francis Legault believes that although the public seems to pay more attention to the words of the discussions when they are broadcast on radio, television allows to show the body language of the invited public figures, which adds to the wealth of the program, according to sa sa kanya ..

He remembers in particular a discussion about fatherhood between poet David Goudreault and Louis-José Houde, in which he believes he read a certain sadness on the face of the comedian, who wants to have children one day. – a girl called Ingrid Houde, says. jokes of the latter on his show A thousand bad choices.

This text was written from from an interview by René Homier-Royhost the show Culture Club. Comments can be edited for clarity and brevity.