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Les Douze Coups de midi

Les Douze Coups de midi (previously called Les 12 Coups de midi, ) is a French game show hosted by Jean-Luc Reichmann and broadcast everyday on TF1 since June 28th 2010.

History

Les Douze Coups de midi is an adaptation from the Argentine show El Legado on Telefe (the first version was named Crésus, broadcast in 2005 and 2006 on TF1 and hosted by Vincent Lagaf'). This show consists of an individual quiz which can lead to winning numerous prizes and a jackpot.

Broadcasting

This game was broadcast on TF1 to collect the midday audience, as a response to the success of Tout le monde veut prendre sa place, a game show broadcast at the same time on France 2.

Since October 2010, Jean-Luc Reichmann has hosted the game with a virtual character, a fairy called Eulalie (voice by Véronique Le Nir). Later, this fairy became a simple voiceover, but kept her name and her voice actor before her replacement by Zette which is voiced by Isabelle Benhadj.

From May 12, 2020 to October 9, 2021, to respect safety measures due to the COVID-19 pandemic in France, the show was broadcast without audience, and a new character, Docteur Maboul, made his appearance. His role is to clean up the candidates' desks.

Description

The winner of the show, now Maître de midi (), puts his title on the table to try and win more prizes until his elimination.

At the end of the show, each correct answer reveals one tile on a rectangle of 13x10 tiles hiding hints for the discovery of a celebrity. Since January 27, 2023, only a "coup de maître" () with five correct answers lets the Master of Midday make a guess, to try to win the jackpot.

The show has known some evolutions since its creation. Since January 2018, the last round "L'étoile mystérieuse" () was made harder by replacing the celebrity's picture by a number of hints, leading to guess said celebrity. The last four tiles hide this celebrity.

Visual identity

From September 2016 to September 2019, for the 100th mysterious star, the show changed its logo and artistic direction.

In September 2019, the show changed its studio, its logo and its artistic direction.

The logo changes color for certain vacation or holiday periods. Fir example, the logo becomes red during Christmas and New Year (golden in winter 2023), and golden and yellow (pink in 2022) during the summer. Starting in 2023, the logo turns green for the fall and changes to orange for Halloween.

Audiences

  • On June 28, 2010, the launch of the game was welcomed by 2.9 million people with a peak at 4.6 million at the end.
  • After a decrease in September 2010, around 2.3 million people were watching from home. The numbers went up again in October, and stabilized at more than 3 million.
  • Ever since then, the game regularly gains audience, with a peak at 4.5 million on February 1, 2011. It is the leader at this time of the day.
  • On December 26, 2016, no less than 4.73 million people watched the show, with a peak of 6.5 million in the end.
  • In April 2019, following the Quesada scandal, audience decreased before coming back to normal shortly thereafter.
  • On July 6, 2025, 4.98 million people watched the show and 7.1 million at the elimination of Émilien.

Records

Émilien holds the record for victories in the history of television games in the world.

He also holds the show's winnings record and is the biggest winner in the history of French game shows in terms of winnings, ahead of Bruno Hourcade with €1,026,107 and a Who Wants to be a Millionaire contestant named Marie-Hélène who won €1,000,000 in the show on August 27, 2004

Ranking

The next list ranked the twenty best contestants as number of successive appearances.

References