Canal+’s satirical programme “Groland” will end on December 12 with a special evening marking 34 years on air, the French broadcaster told Agence France-Presse on Tuesday, November 3. The announcement confirmed earlier press reports.
Jean-Marc Juramie, Canal+ France’s deputy general manager for channels and programmes, said the network respected the creators’ decision to bring the show to a close. He described it as an unusually long-running programme that had remained distinctive and true to itself, and said it had left a lasting mark on Canal+ and French television.
First broadcast free-to-air on Canal+ in 1992, “Groland” built its comedy around a fictional small country, using it to lampoon current affairs with deliberately provocative humour. The programme changed its format and title several times, but retained that central premise. Since June 2025, it had no longer been shown weekly, appearing instead in prime-time editions and special segments.
The team first filmed a pilot in 1989. Benoît Delépine, one of the show’s long-standing figures, later told Le Parisien that it was rejected by every broadcaster it approached before Canal+ programme director Alain De Greef agreed to take it on.
Several of the programme’s familiar figures have since died or left. Christophe Salengro, who played its emblematic president, died in 2018, the same year fake-news presenter Jules-Édouard Moustic, whose real name was Christian Bordes, left the show. Writer Franck Benoist has also died recently.
Sources: Le Monde Culture.