M6 relaunches “May the best win”, a cult game show from the 1990s

TELEVISION – After The right priceM6 will resurrect another cult game from the 90s. It is May the best winwhich will be presented in the evening by the former host of Top Gear France Philippe Lellouche and actress Anne-Sophie Girard, the channel announced on Wednesday, June 26.

Launched in 1991 on Cinq then broadcast daily from 1992 to 1995 on Antenne 2, the show which revealed Nagui had already been relaunched by France 2 between 2012 and 2015.

As in the original game, 200 anonymous candidates will try to win up to 40,000 euros by answering a series of multiple choice questions, the slightest error leading to their elimination. With one new feature: everyone will be divided according to their age group into four large families, each supported by a celebrity.

After reality shows, M6 wants to relaunch TV games

This relaunch is part of M6’s desire to advance in the game’s previously little-explored terrain (apart from reality TV), while relying on well-known brands.

“We’re accelerating”confirmed David Larramendy, the new boss of M6, during a press conference on the return of the group’s channels. The game is one of the “two important axes” for M6 with fiction, added the one who succeeded Nicolas de Tavernost in April.

The channel has thus handed over The right price of TF1 up to date in March and is preparing a new version of Weak linkanother former flagship program of its competitor, hosted by actor Vincent Dedienne, during an event evening.

A bachelor’s degree for seniors

She will also launch a new serial program, 99 to beatwhere around a hundred candidates of all ages will compete at the same time in a series of challenges.

On the reality TV side, in addition to its successful brands (Traitors, Beijing Express), M6 will also broadcast Le golden bachelor, senior version of his program from the 2000s, where a sixty-year-old looks for a soul mate among around twenty suitors. Its launch, initially scheduled for Thursday, was postponed due to political developments in France.

Also on the menu, the return of The Island, which will follow ten personalities abandoned for ten days on the desert island of Ko Tarutao, off the coast of Thailand. Adventurer Loury Lag will present this show hosted from 2015 to 2018 by explorer Mike Horn. The actress Laëtitia Milot will also replace Marie Portolano, who left for France 2, at the presentation of the Best pastry chef.

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