Europe 1 with AFP 07:21, July 17, 2023

The soap opera "Plus belle la vie" will soon make its comeback on television. Broadcast on France 3 from 2004 to 2022, the series will resume after a year and a half of stoppage, on TF1 this time, announced an executive of the channel in "Le Figaro".

The television series Plus belle la vie, broadcast on France 3 from 2004 to 2022, will resume after a year and a half of stoppage, on TF1 this time, announced an executive of the channel in Le Figaro. "Plus belle la vie will be relaunched in early 2024 on the TF1 channel and our streaming platform MYTF1," said the daily the deputy director general in charge of content, Ara Aprikian. The time of broadcast remains to be decided. "I can only say that it will be a prime time," the leader said.

A flagship public service programme

This fiction set in Marseille was one of the star programs of the public service, with its 4,665 episodes that saw 3,232 actors, not counting the extras. It reached peak audiences of 6 million viewers in 2008, ending at around 2.5 million followers.

As it was produced by a subsidiary of the TF1 group, Newen, its many fans hoped for a return to the first channel. The series "is an entertainment, but also the incarnation of a certain popular France, based on mutual aid," welcomed the director general of this production company, Vincent Meslet, interviewed by Le Figaro.

Filming scheduled to begin in mid-October

"Filming is scheduled to begin in mid-October," he added. He stressed that it would be necessary to work quickly to redo the sets, the old ones having been destroyed. "It will not be a simple sequel, but a new creation" to "embark the fans of the first hour and open at the same time to new audiences unfamiliar with the brand," according to him.

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Some characters present since the beginning must continue the adventure, including Mirta Torres, Blanche Marci or Thomas Marci. Others will be created. The series, the longest ever produced in France, has become a phenomenon by seizing themes hitherto rarely addressed in French fiction, such as gay marriage, surrogacy or resistance to gentrification in working-class neighborhoods.