Groland will stop next December after 34 years of existence

One last broadcast before saying “Banzai!” » one last time.

A page in the history of Canal+ will be turned.

After 34 years on the air, Groland will bow out next Saturday, December 12, with a final evening event in prime time. Benoît Delépine, co-creator of the show, announced the news this Tuesday morning, in the bistro, at Léon, in the 8th arrondissement, where most of the sketches were written.

“We gave everything,” he confided to Le Parisien.

One of the last vestiges of the “Canal spirit” is therefore preparing to disappear. Faced with the decline of its audiences, the departure of Canal+ from TNT and the death or withdrawal of several emblematic figures, Groland also seems to have lost part of its impact. Thirty-four years after its debut, the fierce satire that made it unique perhaps no longer resonates in the same way in a society that has profoundly changed. The low visibility of its last meetings also weighed on the decision, in particular that of the cinema special broadcast last May: “It passed in complete anonymity”, regrets Benoît Delépine, who specifies that the stop was decided “in agreement with the channel”. The director also recognizes that certain old sketches would no longer work today: “Society has evolved, and that’s so much the better.”

President Salengro will not leave without a final farewell word.

Entitled Groland, one last tip, a final program will be broadcast unencrypted on Canal+ on December 12 at 9:10 p.m., under the aegis of Emmanuel Micron, and we are promised a “masterful” final evening. It will be preceded by a thirty-minute tribute to Franck Benoist and followed by the film Animal Totem, directed by Delépine and released last year in cinemas.

In the meantime, for the more nostalgic, the very first issue of the show, filmed in 1990, has been put online. A return to the origins of an adventure which began with a project long refused by the channels. “Every day for more than thirty years, I woke up thinking first of Groland. I’m going to miss that obsession,” concludes Benoît Delépine.