Fort Boyard is part of France’s audiovisual heritage. This year, the famous adventure game of France 2 even becomes the oldest television show still broadcast following the shutdown Numbers and letters. I have to say that Fort Boyard is celebrating a rather special anniversary this summer, as the program is blowing out its 35 candles. Enough to make Olivier Minne happy, he who has taken the reins of Fort Boyard in 2003: “I had just suffered a failure with the game show La Cible. Yves Bigot, then director of the variety, games and entertainment unit of France 2, invited me to dinner. I thought he was going to tell me some bad news. Instead, he offered me the keys to Fort Boyard.“, the host recently told TV 7 Days. “I hesitated for 48 hours, for fear of being too young to embody the program, led by Patrice Laffont and Jean-Pierre Castaldi before me. I finally accepted. Yves Bigot had detected in me this ability to animate the game. I learned, over time, that you have to trust those who perceive qualities in you that you do not suspect.“
Over the years, Fort Boyard has undergone many changes. The game mechanics have sometimes been revised so as not to bore the viewer. Some elements of the show have even disappeared, such as certain events deemed sexist or the tigers: “In 2003, when I arrived, quite a few things had already changed. It wasn’t necessarily linked to the pressure of the times or the change in the times.“, Olivier Minne said at the microphone of France Info on June 28th.
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