When Gulli, children’s favorite channel becomes their parents’ darling… On November 9, 312,000 nostalgic fans tuned in for the first issue of “The Great Game of the Club Dorothée Years” (the second is broadcast this Thursday at 9:05 p.m.), for an audience share of 1.5%. It doesn’t seem like much, but it’s 0.6 points more compared to the film Wallace and Gromit broadcast the week before on the same slot. The audience share reached 3.6% for the target audience of women responsible for purchases under 50, and was close to 4% for 25-49 year olds. In this age group, Gulli even beat C8 and its rehash of “Only the truth that counts”.
This is proof that, more than twenty-five years after disappearing from the air of TF1, “Le Club Dorothée” is far from having been forgotten. “I feel like I never left the show,” confides Jackie. I remember everything. When you throw tapes, the images bring everything up. » In “The Great Game…”, he plays the role of “the troublemaker and the living memory of the show”, always ready to deliver an anecdote.
“Chantal came with her membership card, her photo with Les Musclées…”
Nicole Ferroni is the one who asks the questions to the candidates. For example: Which president of the republic appeared in “Le Club Dorothée”? What problem disrupted the first live broadcast on September 2, 1987? Which song did Dorothée sing last?
Several suggested answers are submitted to the participants but they often do not need them… “I did not expect to see such a level of knowledge,” says Nicole Ferroni. We have players who are real fans. We received one, Chantal, who came with her membership card, her autographs, her photo with the Muscles, the red and yellow socks with little polka dots, the t-shirt from the time, the ticket to the concert of Helene…”
Hélène Rollès and Bernard Minet
In each broadcast, the two participants, who play for an association, are supported by two personalities. For the premiere, Christophe Beaugrand, Charlotte Gaccio, Jeff Panacloc and Hélène Ségara were there. For the second number, it’s the turn of Booder, Denitsa Ikonomova, Gil Alma and Inès Vandamme to take part in the game and give of themselves because cult tests like “You sing, you win” and “The game of ‘ABC’ are also on the programme. Figures from AB Production are also invited, like Hélène Rollès for the premiere or Bernard Minet this Thursday.
Nicole Ferroni, who watched “Le Club Dorothée” as a child, found it “very impressive” to find herself immersed in a blue, pink and yellow decor, like that of the time. “It’s like entering a dream,” she explains. It’s also weird because it’s a sign that I’ve gotten older, but we quickly go back to childhood. Just listening to the credits again, like that of Minipouss, has the effect of an auditory Proust madeleine. » A sweetness with a taste of yesteryear that she willingly shares with thirty- and forty-year-olds who grew up with “Club Do’”…