Overview
- More than 110 well-known television actors published a tribune in Le Parisien defending audiovisual creation and urging lawmakers and the public to resist the reductions.
- The culture minister, Rachida Dati, acknowledged the planned €65.3 million cut for 2026 during a Senate hearing, with the budget still awaiting a parliamentary vote.
- France Télévisions made about €112 million in savings in 2025 and is preparing for up to €140 million more in 2026, according to industry reporting.
- France Télévisions president Delphine Ernotte warned creation funding could drop to roughly €380 million from €440 million, noting the group provides around 35% of fiction financing in France.
- Producers’ union leader Iris Bucher estimated the cut equates to about 80–85 episodes of 52 minutes, effectively one weekly fiction slot, with warnings of more rediffusions and paused projects.