End of an Era: Iconic TV Show ‘Numbers and Letters’ Not Renewed After 52 Years – Includes Hilarious Archives!

After 52 years of existence, the famous television show Numbers and letters will not be renewed next September. We found archives that made us laugh a lot.

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There are things that we think are unattainable and yet, the program of France Television Numbers and letters it will stop definitively at the beginning of the school year in September. According to the group’s director of broadcasting and programming, Stéphane Sitbon-Gomez, the program will not be renewed next season.

Previously daily, the show has been rescheduled for late afternoon weekends on France 3 from the beginning of the 2022 school year.

This iconic game show was launched in 1972 on Antenne 2. Which still gives us 52 years of existence, including 32 presented by Laurent Romejko. It is also part of one of the oldest shows in Europe, Numbers and letters has been exported to many countries, from Belgium to Australia. The program attracted tens of thousands of applicants and produced hundreds of clubs, outside of TV, that have their competitions and champions. The show has also inspired several parodies, such as by Les Inconnus or even the actor Jean-Pascal Zadi.

The deregistration of Numbers and letters celebrating the end of an era. The show will have left its mark with many cult moments: the mental arithmetic test and the “good math”, the vocabulary test with its alternating pattern between consonants and vowels, its beliefs, Western Patrol, it appeared as early as 1972 as well as the candidates who were a little too confident using words like “sluts” or “arseholes”.

A farewell show brings together Patrice Laffont and Laurent Romejko, the two main presenters. To mark the end of this cult show, we’ve put together some cult moments.