“Intervilles” (and Topa la Vachette) will they return in 2026, despite low hearings and harsh criticism?

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The. For example, intervilles presentation team in 2025 on Franc E2

ENTERTAINMENT – ” Hide these criticism that I cannot see ». Intervilles will return to the small screen for a new season in 2026. Furthermore, as France Télé announced in a press release. Similarly, On France 2, the final won by GAP attracted nearly 2.4 million viewers, audiences sufficiently satisfactory for the channel to decide to renew the program.

In its press release. For example, France Télévisions evokes a program that has “About rally young and old” but also “Excellent audiences”. However, an affirmation must be put into perspective. In addition, The very first episode broadcast on “intervilles” (and topa la vachette) July 3 and which saw Beauvais and Coulanges-lès-Nevers compete had 3.35 million viewers.

The following week, July 10 when Gap and Bourgoin-Jallieu opposed, only 2.41 million people followed the meeting. Nevertheless, A brutal fall which had confirmed on July 17 with 2 million French people to follow the match Wallers-Arenberg versus Saint-Amand-les-Eaux. The final broadcast from 9:10 p.m. to 11:45 p.m. Thursday, July 24, ends in first place in the evening with 17.7 % audience share according to mediammetry figures.

In its press release, France Télé highlights a “Popular success” Especially with young people and families. The average PDA of the four numbers was 17.9 %, but in fact 39.1 % amounted to 4-14 year olds and almost 22.9 % among 15-24 year olds, according to the audiovisual group.

Intervilles very criticized – "intervilles" (and topa la vachette)

France Télé seems to have chosen to ignore criticism, which “intervilles” (and topa la vachette) have however been numerous. On social networks Internet users commented on the sets deemed to be small. disappointing the absence of real cows replaced by the Mascot Topa, the new credits but also the presentation team made up of Nagui, Bruno Guillon, Yoann Riou, Magali Ripoll, Camille Serf and Valérie Bègue.

This new version of the game had also been strongly criticized by Claude Savarit. the now octogenarian co-creator of the games ofIntervilles With Guy Lux in 1962.

The latter notably qualified in an interview with Nice morning the absence of cowtakes of “Grotesque. crippling” specifying “We have never brutalized them. We had added them from the third program in the history of the game during a duplex with Dax arenas. It is thanks to them that the program has become a huge success. Without them, intervilles, it’s over ”. Claude Savarit has also stretched the “intervilles” (and topa la vachette) new program as a whole affirming: “It’s scandalous to see what they did. Nagui’s intervilles, it is no longer intervotes! »»

Finally. France Télévisions decided not to immediately remind the topa costume in the attic and to give this reboot a second chance. Will changes be made to ensure more audiences and less criticism? The group has in any case for almost a year to think about it.