The principle of "Ce Soir (Ou Jamais!)" is to present live and in public "the news seen by culture". The program brought together guests with very varied profiles, around specific topical themes, which the speakers have the leisure to develop at length while the host stands back, only intervening sporadically to frame the debate. "Ce Soir (Ou Jamais!)" is broadcast daily, from 2006 to 2011, from Monday to Thursday (its duration is one hour and twenty minutes, generally including the interruption by Soir 3). In 2011, it became weekly with programming on Tuesday evenings and lengthened to two hours. The last issue on France 3 was broadcast on February 12, 2013. The show was transferred to France 2, every Friday evening, from March 8, 2013. At the end of May 2015, "Ce Soir (Ou Jamais!)" became the longest-lived cultural program on French television, in terms of the number of broadcasts (724 issues), beating the previous record set by Bernard Pivot's" Apostrophes". The last issue of "Ce Soir (Ou Jamais!)" is broadcast on May 20, 2016.
—France TV