Overview

• France Télévisions and Fremantle aired the last new weekday installment of Questions pour un champion on July 4, concluding its uninterrupted daily slot since 1988.
• The broadcaster maintains that a “contexte budgétaire particulièrement contraint” necessitates moving the program to a weekend-only schedule starting this autumn.
• Viewers have rallied behind the show with a petition gathering nearly 22,000 signatures calling for a reversal of the decision.
• Twenty-two deputies from across the political spectrum have sent a joint letter to France Télévisions leadership urging them to restore the daily broadcasts.
• Host Samuel Etienne has mounted a public campaign on X and Twitch, even offering to step aside to secure the show’s return to weekdays.