"Les 12 Coups de midi", "Questions pour un champion": "In recent years, the role of games has diminished on television"
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On the set of "Questions for a Champion," in November 2023. (Jean-Philippe Baltel/Fremantle)
On our screens for decades, game shows are gradually being debunked, particularly on public service channels. After the disappearance of Motus in 2019 and then Des chiffres et des lettres in 2024, it is now the turn of Questions pour un champion to be relegated to the weekend, which arouses the anger and sadness of its fans . On this occasion, the lecturer at Toulouse-Capitole University, Laurence Leveneur-Martel, author of Mythes et réalités de la télévision sociale: la télé et les réseaux sociaux (Ed. INA, 2024), returns to Libération on the history of game shows, less and less present on the small screen.
How did games land on the grid?
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