This Saturday, September 17, the first Numbers and letters new formula, without Bertrand Renard and Arielle Boulin-Prat. Laurent Romejko, at the helm of the cult game since 1992, paid tribute to his two former acolytes of his, absent in this new version of France 3.
“Right here, for decades, Arielle and Bertrand have brought this little daily dose of knowledge, always unpretentious, but also these calculation and spelling tricks that have allowed most of you to grow over the years, to learn too. ”, he launched like this. , after the opening credits.
He spoke of the “collective good humor” that “they brought to the set and “this evil that was between us”.
“Numbers and letters thank you”
“You understood, I am very fond of them, and I am not the only one, since several generations of the great family Numbers and letters thank you my friends Arielle and Bertrand“, continued.
Arielle Boulin-Prat and Bertand Renard, who had collaborated on the show for 36 and 47 years respectively, left Numbers and letters and France Télévisions, for what the group described as a “contractual disagreement”. They themselves denounced a “forced and forced” exit.
“France Télévisions demanded a drop in our salary of around 60% and refused to grant us a CDI that we had the audacity to claim,” the two animators explained in a press release on August 22.
In this fall of 2022, the cult game was released in 1965 (first under the title the longest word) has also changed hours. Broadcast daily in mid-afternoon since its debut, Numbers and letters now it only airs on weekends, with a broadcast on Saturday and Sunday at 5:15 p.m.
Arielle Boulin-Prat and Bertrand Renard have been replaced since September 17 by Blandine Maire, teacher of the small section, and Stéphane Crosnier, sports editor for BFMTV and RMC Sport, and a former game candidate.
Source: BFM TV
