“Intervilles”, a historic French television show, will return in summer 2025

A cult summer television event in France since 1962, the year it was created by Guy Lux and Claude Savarit, interrupted and relaunched several times over the decades, the game “Intervilles” will be back in service in the summer of 2025. This was announced by Stéphane Sitbon-Gomez, director of programs at France Télévisions, on Wednesday, September 4, during the public group’s major back-to-school conference. The 2025 version will be available over four evenings and will be presented by Nagui “with a whole group of presenters like Bruno Guillon”, he said.

“Intervilles” is a program that “is part of the heritage of the French” and knows “gathering the family in front of the television”, commented Stéphane Sitbon-Gomez. The recipe is simple: each show pits two French cities against each other through various sometimes very fanciful physical tests and challenges, an inexhaustible source of comical, even hilarious, situations.

The concept of a game between two cities is an offshoot of the Italian TV show “Campanile sera” (1959-1962), in which representatives of two cities, one from the North, the other from the South, competed through quizzes and sporting events. Adapted under the title “Intervilles”, The program developed by Guy Lux and Claude Savarit has become one of the most adapted French programs outside our borders.

Originally, Guy Lux presented the show with Léon Zitrone and Simone Garnier. Some sequences have remained in the annals of French television and have made the heyday of blooper reels. Interrupted after ten years, “Intervilles” returned for the first time in 1985 on FR3, then migrated to TF1 from 1986 to 1991. There were then occasional returns with different presenters, including Nagui, who will therefore return to the show. France Télévisions had been considering resurrecting this program since 2020, but had postponed its project several times.