After twenty years of absence, the cult TV game presented by Vincent Lagaf’ made a successful return to the air this Thursday, January 2 on RMC Story, attracting 1.8 million viewers.
Full box for the return of bigdil on air. Broadcast this Thursday, January 2 on RMC Story, this new version of the cult game, still presented by Vincent Lagaf’ and Bill the Extraterrestrial, attracted an average of 1.8 million viewers, a historic record – excluding sports competition – for the channel of the RMC-BFM group.
Across the entire public, the show broadcast from 9:10 p.m. achieved an audience share of 9.1%, which made RMC Story the fourth national channel at this time. In detail, the bigdil even allowed the channel to be first at the national level in several categories of viewers, including those under 50, 25-49 year olds and even children aged 4 to 14.
“Flawless”
This enthusiasm was also present on social networks where many Internet users praised “faultless” for the return of the program which marked the years 1998 to 2004.
“20 years later, nothing has changed. Vincent Lagaf remains the King of entertainment on television. Thank you for this shot of nostalgia and this return to childhood”, underlines a user on X.
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“A flawless return of Bigdil. Vincent Lagaf’ had promised an identical return, it’s a success. The audience deserves to follow,” adds another.
“Le Bigdil”: the cult game from the 2000s is making a comeback on RMC Story
Audience record for entertainment since 2018
Thanks to this cardboard, the bigdil thus breaking the audience record for entertainment on TNT since April 2018. The bet therefore seems to have succeeded for RMC Story which announced last June that it wanted to relaunch the cult show with Vincent Lagaf’.
Viewers will be able to continue to watch this new version of the show every Friday evening in prime time on the channel. The return of bigdil is part of a trend of nostalgia on television: M6 has relaunched TF1 programs The right price et The weak link.