The Grégory affair with Guillaume de Tonquédec, a French-style “This Is Us” with Camille Lou, Isabelle Adjani in Diane de Poitiers under the direction of Josée Dayan, or even a “The Voice All-Stars”… Here is an overview of the big events coming to the small screen in the coming months.
TV FILMS & SERIES
The Gregory affair on TF1.
The Gregory affair, this little boy murdered in 1984, still magnetizes as much as justice continues to seek the culprits.
After France 3, then Netflix in a documentary series, TF1 offers by June six episodes of 52 minutes presented as "a choral treatment that will allow viewers to form an opinion, as fair as possible, of this still unresolved affair. ".
The cast brings together Guillaume de Tonquédec, Laurence Arné, Blandine Bellavoir, Guillaume Gouix, Gérard Jugnot, Michaël Youn, Gilbert Melki or Dominique Blanc.
"I promise you", the French "This Is Us".
The Pearsons become tricolors.
Success in the United States, shunned in France, “This Is Us” will try to seduce with a hexagonal adaptation on TF1, in which Camille Lou, Hugo Becker, Marilou Berry, Narcisse Mame and Guillaume Labbé will play.
Their stories, romantic, family, professional, will take place in France from the 1980s to the present day.
"A Man of Honor", the Merad / Depardieu face-to-face.
Five-star casting for TF1.
The channel will offer a mini-series led by Kad Merad and Gérard Depardieu.
The first embodies a judge facing the second, a mobster.
A tragedy concerning their respective sons will oppose them.
Voltaire before Voltaire.
This is one of the major projects of France 2. With “The Adventures of Young Voltaire”, La Deux intends to return to the youth of the Enlightenment philosopher.
Thomas Solivérès and Bernard Le Coq will lend him their features, over two periods, in order to retrace the course of this commoner with crazy ambition who overturned the codes and caused many scandals.
Thomas Solivérès lends his features to the young Voltaire.
/ Jo Voets
Isabelle Adjani becomes Diane de Poitiers.
It's not just “Captain Marleau”.
Josée Dayan is preparing, for France 2, a mini-series around Diane de Poitiers.
Isabelle Adjani will camp there, the favorite of Henri II, alongside Jean Reno, Mathieu Amalric, Jeanne Balibar and Nicolas Duvauchelle.
All with a large budget due to the many sets and costumes.
"In therapy", Toledano and Nakache's psy practice.
The directors of “Intouchables” on television.
The duo are behind “In Therapy”, a new Arte series taken from an Israeli format and already adapted for the USA.
In the aftermath of the November 13 attacks, a psychologist (Frédéric Pierrot) receives patients, some at the heart of events (Reda Kateb, Mélanie Thierry), others having to deal with personal issues (Clémence Poésy, Pio Marmaï).
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"Validated", confirmed.
After the success of the first season, Franck Gastambide returns with a season 2 on Canal +.
This time the hero will be a woman.
Shot between Paris and Marseille, the action describes the difficulties of a rapper to impose herself in this very masculine environment.
There will still be many appearances, on the artist side, from Rohff to Soolking via the Marseillais Alonzo or Kofs.
Saïd Taghmaoui ("Hate") will also be in the credits.
In spring.
Alonzo (on the left with Franck Gastambide) in season 2, it's “Validated” ./Canal +
"Germinal" in series.
A classic of literature on the small screen.
A Franco-Italian co-production for France 2, Emile Zola's novel will be carried by Louis Peres, Thierry Godard, Alix Poisson, Guillaume de Tonquédec, Natacha Lindinger… The shooting, which will take place until February, will be set up in Lille and Valenciennes.
Palmade reopens its restaurant on M6.
Ten years that he had not provided service.
"The Grand Restaurant" is installed this time on M 6. Pierre Palmade finds himself at the helm of an establishment not without hitches, between a fierce competitor played by Florence Foresti or a cumbersome mother, alias Marthe Villalonga.
And among the clients: Marie-Anne Chazel, Michel Sardou, Muriel Robin, Malik Bentalha, JoeyStarr, Mathilde Seigner, Arielle Dombasle, Julie Gayet and many others.
ENTERTAINMENT
"Koh-Lanta" brings back the old ones.
Exit the incredible landscapes of the Fiji Islands of the last four editions.
For the next of "Koh-Lanta", shot during the reconfinement of this fall, the production has opted for French Polynesia, and more precisely the islands of Taha'a and Raiatea.
To respect a sanitary bubble, the film crew stayed on a boat offshore.
Adventure Line Productions also launched the following season.
According to our information, this will be an edition with former emblematic candidates.
“The Voice All-Stars” for TF1.
Big surprise for fans of "The Voice"!
While season 10 was filmed in November, the next one is already signed and partially boxed and it will be "The Voice All-Stars".
This special program to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the competition will benefit from the expertise of five historical coaches: Mika, Zazie, Jenifer, Florent Pagny and Patrick Fiori.
Always presented by Nikos Aliagas, former candidates will come to try their luck again.
Broadcast scheduled for the start of the 2021 school year,
instead of “The Voice Kids”.
"Dance with the stars" back but when?
It is slow to see the light of day.
While England and the United States have maintained the show without an audience, TF1 has decided to wait for season 11 of "Dance with the stars", where physical distancing is impossible.
Depending on the health situation, the program could arrive in the spring… or even in the fall!
Fauve Hautot in "Dance with the stars".
The program could return in the spring.
/ TF1 / Philippe Le Roux
Camille Combal and his “Golden Family”.
New generation for family play.
In the coming weeks, TF1 will be offering a 2021 version of “Une famille en or”.
Revised and corrected with Combal sauce, the modern edition will see the host evolve in a new setting and even take to the streets.
"Beijing Express", the season of all the hardships.
Coming back in force in 2018, “Beijing Express” will be back in 2021 on M 6… after a very disturbed shoot.
At the start of the year, the candidates set off in Africa before being stopped dead in March because of the Covid-19.
It was not until September that everyone set off on a new route, connecting Greece to Istanbul.
A second part bereaved by the death of an 82-year-old motorist, who collided with two cars carrying candidates and technicians.
The public's choice for Eurovision.
Full reverse for France Télévisions.
Cooled by the disappointing results of Madame Monsieur then Bilal Hassani, and after the cancellation of the 2020 edition with the internal choice of Tom Leeb, France 2 finally decided to ask the public to choose from twelve artists.
These have been presented on the air in recent days and the winner will be chosen during a program hosted by Laurence Boccolini and Stéphane Bern.
“Symphonissime” for France 2.
Will the varieties regain their letters of nobility?
In the next few weeks, France 2 will broadcast “Symphonissime”, recorded at the beginning of November at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris.
Vianney, Sting, Alain Souchon, Elodie Frégé… the guest list is long for a rare device in television: a symphony orchestra conducted by Yvan Cassar.
Two issues are already in box.
Sting accompanied by a large orchestra for "Symphonissime" ./LP/Olivier Lejeune
SPORTS
The Champions League and Ligue 1 change channels.
We will have to change subscriptions to follow football.
From the next few weeks, the fate of the rights of Ligue 1 until 2024 will be fixed.
After the fiasco of Mediapro and its Téléfoot channel, which went out of business after four months, the world of football must find a new broadcaster.
Canal + and BeIN Sports are in line.
A duo who have already won the Champions League from next season.
Euro 2021, paying matches.
The free reduces the sails.
Postponed due to the pandemic, Euro 2020 football becomes Euro 2021. If BeIN Sports will broadcast the entire competition, matches will obviously be offered on free channels… but significantly less than in the past, 23 matches in total, this is 9 less than in 2016. TF1 will offer 12, including the opening match, M 6 11 with the final.
Roland-Garros in the evening on… Amazon!
The platforms invite themselves on the tennis court.
If France Télévisions remains the main broadcaster of Roland-Garros for the 2021 to 2023 editions, a new kid has been invited into the device.
Already present in sports abroad, Amazon has recovered the matches of the new Auteuil court as well as ten evening matches, including the quarter-finals.
A revolution towards paying.