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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: SamJ93 on May 08, 2024, 11:19:28 PM
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Only English-language article I could find is behind a paywall, so this translated French one (https://gillescharles.info/2024/05/fin-dune-ere-des-chiffres-et-des-lettres-sarrete-apres-52-ans-sur-france-televisions/) will have to do...
A couple years after being relegated to weekends, the French TV mainstay--and inspiration for the much better-known (in the anglosphere, anyway) Countdown--will broadcast its final episodes this September.
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I guess while we're on the topic, the UK's Channel 4 is apparently "resting" 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown, though some previously taped episodes will eventually air.
https://deadline.com/2024/05/channel-4-8-out-of-10-cats-does-countdown-delay-1235908392/
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This is more "Channel 4 are in quite bad financial trouble" than 8OoTCDC isn't worth recommissioning.
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For a brief time in the 90s, my cable company had a channel that carried TV5 among other international channels. So I got "Des Chiffres" along with Pyramide. A solid hour of TV. No, I don't have any tapes. But I do have the home game.