The iconic game show Numbers and letters about to disappear of the program schedule after fifty years of existence. “A difficult decision” according to antenna director Stéphane Sitbon-Gomez. Presenter of the show from 1972 to 1989, Patrice Laffont reacted to this news, this Sunday, May 5, in the columns of Parisian. “It’s a shame, it’s sadhe declares. It’s sad for the team, for the people who loved the program. We tried to do things well until the end, to make changes to the game”.
However, the animation of this show bored him somewhat, as he explained in the program entitled TV, your merciless universe, broadcast on C8, on Saturday April 27. Because for “passing time”, Patrice Laffont had found a subterfuge. A sports fan, he asked the director to have a screen installed for him on which he could watch the Roland Garros tournament. “I tell him: ‘listen, it’s Roland Garros, I’m going to miss the afternoon matches, put me on a screen that the viewers won’t see’, he remembers. “While the candidates were searching, I was in front of my screen”he explains with a laugh.
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End clap of numbers and letters: Patrice Laffont and Laurent Romejko united for the last
Patrice Laffont will return to the stage Numbers and letters for the last time for a “goodbye show“, alongside Laurent Romejko. An initiative that he welcomes in The Parisian. “I recognize that France Televisions did things well. They decided to do a special show”, he says. If he does not yet know how it will unfold, for him“it will put an end to”. “We weren’t going to leave like thieves!”, he adds. Concerning the date of this last broadcast, it has not yet been fixed. “We still need to discuss the datehe explains. The goal is for it to be a nice goodbye, not tears. We need to show viewers what’s been funny all these years. We’re going to try to make a show that’s a bit nice, funny, probably with notable former candidates”. For now, the recordings “allow programming until June 8”.
Photo credits: C8 screenshot