For the new year, RMC Story has relaunched the cult show “Le Bigdil” in prime time. Good or bad operation?
“Vincent my friend Vincent”: successful operation for Le Bigdil?
Television has seen a wave of returns of old programs, particularly games, on TV in recent months. Besides The right price, May the best win or The weak linkwe are waiting for 2025 The wheel of fortune et Password daily (after 8 p.m. on France 2). But the first game to return this year is Le Bigdil, still with Lagaf, Bill and Les gaffettes. And for the “small channel” RMC Story, it’s a success with 1.8 million people attended and 9.1% market sharea record since 2018.
It must be said that the channel had chosen a good date for this return, in the middle of the Christmas holidays, with a family audience in front of the TV. And especially with less competition on other channels (even if the final of Prodigies was a hit and that’s good news). For its second week, Lagaf will notably face the return of Panda with Julien Doré, it will undoubtedly be more complicated.
“I was called stingy, a stinger, I decided to continue on this path”
In its initial version on TF1, The Bigdil lasted between 1998 to 2004 for almost 1400 emissions and Bill has become a cult television character for many viewers. For its first broadcast, the show decided to stage this return in a very tasty pre-credits where Bill came out of the torpor of his saucer and where we discover that he was unable to return home. him because Lagaf had kept the keys to his spacecraft. Then the credits arrived and we quickly understood that the show would start from the same base.
Lagaf was happy to return to the helm of this cult game and it showed as the production pulled out all the stops to offer the show as faithful as possible to the original version. Crazy choreography for the post-credits entrance, the Gaffettes, the good-natured games at the Intervillesthe difficult exchanges with the curtain (a Memory game offered from the first deal) … and above all the quite incredible complicity between Lagaf and Bill, the latter always being absolutely hilarious thanks to the immense talent of Gilles Vautier.
