“Fort Boyard” becomes, with the stopping of the game “Numbers and Letters”, “the longest-running game show in the history of French television still broadcast“, assures, Friday June 28, Olivier Minne, while Father Fouras is back on France 2 on Saturday. He is waiting firmly with his team, the personalities guided by Olivier Minne, who will try to steal from him for the 35 time his precious capital Gains donated to different associations and which since 1990 amount to 4,767,230 euros.
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**To celebrate this anniversary in style, the host promises a program worthy of the event: “We first brought back certain very significant events at the Fort, we brought back emblematic characters from the first seasons and finally, we brought back those who also embodied this program, Patrice Laffont, Jean-Pierre Castaldi and Cendrine Dominguez.”
“I still get messages by parchment”
“Fort Boyard” had to reinvent itself and adapt to society. The decisions to make tigers disappear or even the mud fights mark the evolution of mentalities, because “Television is a reflection of an era. It is obvious that even through these games, it says a lot about what a moment was. Things that were accepted at the time would no longer be accepted today.“, analyzes Olivier Minne. And today, “Fort Boyard” in 2024 resembles the society of 2024, he assures. “And at the same time, it’s against a lot of things because we’re still in a universe that’s not very high-tech for a lot of things. I still get messages by parchment“, laughs the one who has hosted “Fort Boyard” for 22 years.
It is not without emotion that he evokes this young audience which, every year, is there. Even if this program, in its beginnings, was made for the family, the children very quickly took hold of it, “That, it’s quite surprising and it’s so joyful”, he reacts. “These children grow up, become parents themselves and today, at the canonical age that is mine, I find myself with young parents who tell me: ‘When we were little, we looked at you and now it’s our children who look at you’. “I will not deny my pleasure of always being able to hear the family tell me in a choral way :’We love watching your program'”, smiles Olivier Minne.
