The start of the school year promises to be full of change on the small screen. Between the departure of Karine Ferri at the presentation of “Dancing with the Stars” and that of an emblematic TV host who slams the door of TF1 to go home France 2it’s the turn of France 3 to go to announcements. “Numbers and letters” reveals major changes for the start of the school year. Exit the daily schedule of 4:10 p.m., the game will now be broadcast only on weekends at 5:15 p.m. Double penalty for the faithful to this mythical game, they will no longer see on the screen the two arithmetic and spelling experts, Bertrand Renard and Arielle Boulin-Prataccording to information from Parisian. The two animators would have announced their departure following a “contractual disagreement”. “We did not agree and we regret it“, confided Alexandra Redde-Amiel, director of entertainment and games at France Télévisions, to our colleagues.
For Bertrand Renard, calculation specialist with “the account is good”, he had been on the show for 47 years. While for Arielle Boulin-Prat, expert in letters with “the longest word”, it was 36 years. A big upheaval for one of the oldest television shows, which began under another name in 1965. Also, because its presenter for several years now, Laurent Romejko, has given way to Cyril Féraud. “It’s the most magical and busy back to school of my entire professional life”declared Cyril Féraud during an interview with We both last week, growing impatient with this new start. “It’s the most magical and busy back to school of my entire professional life”, he congratulated himself. The host will now be at the head of several programs, which, according to him, are carried by the same audience. “The followers of Numbers and Letters are mostly followers of Slam, I hope that Duels en famille will please them. As for the time slot, the channel fell in love with the game and decided that 4:15 p.m. would be the ideal niche”he explained.
Laura Bertrand
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