The television series Plus belle la vie, broadcast on France 3 from 2004 to 2022, will resume on TF1 after a year and a half of stoppage, announced a leader of the channel to Figaro. “Plus belle la vie will be relaunched in early 2024 on the TF1 channel and our MYTF1 streaming platform,” deputy director general in charge of content, Ara Aprikian, told the daily.
The broadcast time is still to be decided. “I can just say it’s going to be prime time,” the executive explained. This fiction located in Marseille was one of the star programs of the public service, with its 4,665 episodes which saw 3,232 actors parade, not counting the extras. It reached peak audiences of 6 million viewers in 2008, to end up around 2.5 million followers.
As it was produced by a subsidiary of the TF1 group, Newen, its many fans were hoping for a return to the first channel. The series “is entertainment, but also the embodiment of a certain popular France, based on mutual aid”, welcomed the general manager of this production company, Vincent Meslet, interviewed by Le Figaro. “Filming is scheduled to start in mid-October,” he added.
He specified that it was going to be necessary to work quickly to redo the sets, the old ones having been destroyed. “It won’t be a simple sequel, but a new creation” to “engage the fans of the first hour and at the same time open up to new audiences unfamiliar with the brand”, according to him. Some characters present since the beginning must continue the adventure, including Mirta Torres, Blanche Marci and Thomas Marci. Others will be created.
The series, the longest ever produced in France, has become a phenomenon by taking on themes hitherto rarely addressed in French fiction, such as gay marriage, surrogacy or resistance to the gentrification of working-class neighborhoods. .
