Tears, indignation and mystery surrounding Hanouna's future: a look at the last week of C8's "martyrs"

"I absolutely had to be here for the last week." Curled up under her transparent umbrella, Fatimata braved the cold, the grayness and some 400 kilometers to come and queue along the brick-red walls of the Canal Factory, in Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine). In a few minutes, the young woman will be under the warm spotlights of the stands reserved for the public of the show "Touche pas à mon poste" , filmed like other products of the Canal+ group in these studios in the South-West of Paris.

For Fatimata from Nantes, as for Hakim, who arrived from Lyon, or Emilio, who came straight from Tourcoing with his mother Anne-Sophie, it was now or never. On this Tuesday, February 25, 2025, the famous C8 talk show is preparing to experience its penultimate retransmission. Friday, at 11:59 p.m., channel 8 of TNT will display a black screen after twenty years on the air…