For Le Parisien, Patrice Laffont reacted to this announcement. The one who presented the show for 17 years between 1972 and 1989, and was always its producer, does not hide his sadness.
”It’s a shame, it’s sad. It’s sad for the whole team, for the people who loved the program. We tried to do things well until the end, to make changes to the game”, explained the one who was kept informed last Thursday, like the current host Laurent Romejko.
The show “Numbers and Letters” will end definitively, after 52 years of existence
But Patrice Laffont admits not to have been surprised by the stopping of “Numbers and Letters”: “It had been announced for a while, when they had decided to only put us on Saturday and Sunday… They were discreet about their decision, but I was not born in the last rain, I suspected that this would not be the case. is not passing the weekend that the program was going to be reborn”. He went on to regret that the program had not ended sooner: “I suggested that we stop after 50 years, two years ago.”
The one who carried the show for many years nevertheless looks back with pride at the progress made: “It’s a show from 1972, which was over 52 years old. We’re going to hold this record for longest-running show for years, if not forever, because 50 years for a TV show won’t happen today.”
For his latest, “Numbers and Letters” should have a special broadcast but the details of this have not yet been revealed.
