They will no longer draw digits or consonants and vowels. Whereas Numbers and letters will become a weekly program at the start of the school year on France 3, its pillars Bertrand Renard and Arielle Boulin-Prat will no longer be part of it. A decision that is not theirs, they said.
The acolytes of the game spoke this Monday evening of a “forced and forced” departure, rejecting the version put forward by France Télévisions of a change of formula which they would have refused. In a press release sent to AFP and Parisianthe two historical figures of the PAF give their version of their departure, and evoke “a situation of rare violence”.
On CDD for forty years
“What is modestly referred to as a ‘contractual disagreement’ arose because FTV demanded a 60% reduction in our salary and refused to grant us the CDI that we had the audacity to claim”, say they in the release.
“Because yes, you read correctly, we have been on fixed-term contracts for 36 years for Arielle, and 47 years for Bertrand…”, they underline. “We don’t exist even though we’re on the air every day. This regularization was flatly refused to us”.
Farewell on September 11
On Friday, Alexandra Redde-Amiel, director of the games, variety and entertainment unit of FTV, announced this departure to Parisian. “We did not agree and we regret it,” she said.
Former candidate of the game, Bertrand Renard refereed the numbers section and Arielle Boulin-Prat that of the letters. According The Parisian, they will say their farewells on September 11 via the “broadcast of the last issues boxed before the summer”. Previously daily, “Numbers and Letters” will only be broadcast on weekends at the end of the afternoon on France 3, with a new formula.