“Le Bigdil”, a cult game which was the heyday of TF1 from 1998 to 2004, will make its return to RMC Story in 2025, still under the leadership of host Vincent Lagaf’, the channel announced on Monday June 3.
“ After more than 20 years of absence “, Vincent Lagaf’ and Bill the blue extraterrestrial with big yellow eyes will take over the air for ” new episodes », Explains RMC Story in a press release.
Unlike the original game, broadcast daily on TF1 in the pre-evening, its new version will be launched in “prime time” (in the evening), Vincent Lagaf’ explained to Télé-Loisirs. “ I don’t want to do it anymore [d’émission quotidienne] because nowadays you have to record five or six a day “, explained the 64-year-old host, estimating that “ in prime time, we have more time to mess around “.
Inspired by an American format, “Le Bigdil” offers various tests to its candidates, who can put their winnings on the line. We are not going to change a single comma compared to the first season of Bigdil on TF1 », assured Vincent Lagaf’, while suggesting that there would no longer be “Gafettes”, these young women who assisted him on set. “ I don’t know anymore if today we necessarily have to have beautiful girls everywhere. The world has changed, mentalities have changed “, he commented.
Bill, a character in computer-generated images, will however always be played by actor Gilles Vautier, he said. RMC Story has already been able to test the current public’s appetite for “Le Bigdil” by devoting a special evening to it in December, to mark the show’s 25th anniversary. This evening attracted nearly 400,000 viewers and allowed the channel to record its audience record between 9 and 10 p.m. among 25-49 year olds, excluding football and excluding 2020.
On TF1, the show attracted up to 7.4 million viewers, according to RMC Story, and more than 3 million viewers on average for its last season. The filming of the new episodes will have “ place this autonomous » in public, specified the channel of the Altice Media group, in the process of being bought by the shipowner CMA CGM.
This return is part of a trend for channels to surf on nostalgia, like M6, which recently relaunched “Le Juste prix” and is preparing to resurrect “Le Maillon weak”, two programs initially broadcast on TF1 .
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