Maïa Mazaurette signs at the Paris Book Fair on March 15, 2009. The scene places the journalist back in her territory as an author before the “Quotidien” years. Credits: Georges Seguin (Okki) / Wikimedia Commons.
Ambre Chalumeau and Maïa Mazaurette must leave Quotidien at the end of the 2025–2026 season, after six years on TMC. Revealed on June 8, 2026 by Le Parisien, the information still lacks an official announcement from TMC, TF1 or Bangumi. Yet it raises a broader question: what does a talk show lose when two such identifiable columns leave the set at the same time?
A Double Departure Announced by Le Parisien
According to Le Parisien, Ambre Chalumeau and Maïa Mazaurette will not return for the 2026 season on the show hosted by Yann Barthès. The daily reports that the two journalists joined the Quotidien ecosystem in 2020. They will leave the program at the end of the current season. Libération picked up the information the same evening, attributing it to its colleague.
The only documented personal confirmation so far comes from Ambre Chalumeau. Interviewed by Le Parisien, the cultural columnist frames her departure as a personal, peaceful choice. She does not describe a public split with the producers or a move announced to a competitor. For Maïa Mazaurette, the same article notes that she did not respond to the newspaper’s inquiries. That asymmetry matters: her departure is reported by the original source, but her motivations are not established first-hand.
As of June 9, 2026, public searches do not show any press release from TMC, TF1 or Bangumi. No official text confirms the precise timeline, possible replacements, or the organization of the 2026–2027 season. The last on-air appearance is also not documented by any accessible official source. These unknowns limit commentary: the main fact is solid, the aftermath remains open.
Six Years of Culture and the Personal On Air
The two columnists did not occupy the same editorial space. Over the seasons, Ambre Chalumeau established an identifiable cultural column. She mixed cinema, books, theater and pop culture artifacts. The official TF1+ page, published August 31, 2020 upon her arrival, presented her as head of “La BAC.” This Cultural Affairs Brigade already indicated the territory she would occupy.
Maïa Mazaurette, a journalist specializing in sexuality issues, filled a different role. She brought topics related to the body, desire and gender into an access prime time program. She added social norms and their representations. The same TF1+ archive announced her presence to talk about “bodies.” The phrase fairly sums up the role she then took on the show.
So this double departure is not reducible to two lines in a casting column. It touches two registers that shaped Quotidien’s tone. On one side, cultural recommendation. On the other, explanation of intimate and social practices. In a show built on alternating news, humor, media, politics and culture, these segments gave the columnists a recognizable signature.
A Recomposition Of The Set, Not An Established Crisis
On its site, TF1+ still presents Quotidien as a show of news, culture and humor. The page associates Yann Barthès with his team. It lists Ambre Chalumeau and Maïa Mazaurette among the columnists, which mainly confirms their place in the program’s recent architecture. It says nothing, however, about a departure, a future schedule, or a renewal strategy.
It would therefore be excessive to read these simultaneous exits as proof of an internal crisis. Ambre Chalumeau’s departure is described as chosen. Maïa Mazaurette’s is not accompanied by a verifiable personal account. No public element allows asserting a specific intent by Yann Barthès, Laurent Bon, Bangumi or TMC. One therefore cannot attribute to them a reshaping of the show around this double absence.
Editorial renewal thus remains a hypothesis, not a conclusion. In a daily talk show, columnists are not mere set presences. They carry angles, routines, and language territories. If their segments change form or disappear, the question will not only be who replaces them. It will also concern the type of conversation the show wants to preserve.
What The Fall Season Will Need To Clarify
The main point to follow concerns the 2026 season. Quotidien will need to say whether the columns carried by Ambre Chalumeau and Maïa Mazaurette will disappear, change form, or be taken up by other voices. The issue is clearer for specialized segments. Culture and questions of sexuality or gender require editorial continuity, but also a credible embodiment.
Ambre Chalumeau’s trajectory matters in this context, but it is not enough to explain the show’s future. Le Parisien reports that she wants to explore something else, without detailing any specific project. For Quotidien, the immediate question is whether the strongly identifiable cultural recommendation she carried will remain a clear landmark of the program.
For Maïa Mazaurette, caution is even more necessary. Her work on desire, bodies and gender relations helped normalize topics long confined to specialized formats. But no verified element tells what she will do after Quotidien, nor how she herself frames this departure. The question for the show is therefore what place these themes will keep in an access prime time format.
For now, the information mainly serves as a possible sign of a cycle closing. Two columnists who arrived in 2020 leave the set at the same time. That was the period when the show consolidated its post-Petit Journal team. For Quotidien, the next season will say whether this joint departure is merely a renewal of faces. It will also show whether it changes how the program talks about culture, intimacy and society.