This Tuesday, December 27, C8 offers in prime time the program Le Grand Bluff: 30 years already! Find out what this program has in store for you, celebrating the anniversary of one of the most cult programs on French television.
For the youngest among us, the show The Great Bluff shouldn’t say much. It is, however,a cult show that revolutionized French television to the point of setting a record. On December 26, 1992, TF1 offered a unique program on its antenna: The Great Bluff. Host Patrick Sébastien disguised himself to be unrecognizable and pretend to be an anonymous contestant participating in a television show. No one was aware, not even the hosts of the programs in question who thought they were dealing with a real wacky candidate.
The Great Bluff: the audience record in the history of television
Patrick Sébastien thus trapped the greatest TV presenters of the time. Michel Drucker, for the show stars 90 Philippe Risoli with the Millionaire or even Jean-Pierre Foucault during a recording of Sacred evening were all trapped. And when the hearings fall the next day, it’s party time at TF1. 17.4 million viewers followed the programme, representing a 74% audience share. A staggering figure that still constitutes the record for an entertainment program in France. The show also had the record audience in France, all genres combined, until July 12, 1998 with the final of the Football World Cup which attracted 20.6 million viewers.
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The Grand Bluff, 30 years already! : new traps on the program on C8
What should we expect from this 30th anniversary party? C8 viewers will obviously be able to watch all the cult sequences from the original showin particular the trap of The wheel of fortunewith Christian Morin and Annie Pujol, or the infiltration of Turn Carouselwith Evelyne Leclercq, Simone Garnier and Fabienne Egal. The evening will also be punctuated interventions by several speakers like Patrick Sébastien, Michel Drucker or Jean-Pierre Foucault who will tell behind the scenes of filming as well as unpublished anecdotes. New traps will also be broadcast with Pascal Sevran, Jack Lang and Frédéric Dard in particular. An unprecedented evening to discover this Tuesday, December 27 at 9:20 p.m. on C8.
