Thomas Lilti, will there be a third season of the "Hippocrates" series?

Dear Thomas Lilti, dear directors of fiction at Canal +,

Do you plan to follow up on "Hippocrates"? Since Monday evening, and the broadcast of the last episodes of season 2 of this breathtaking and humanist, romantic and realistic hospital series, we are a small handful - to put it mildly - to ask ourselves the question. We admit it to you, however: given the anxiety-provoking health context, given the way in which the hospital has despite itself monopolized our news and our concerns for over a year, we were frankly not sure we wanted to dive back into the adventures of Alyson, Chloe, Hugo and Arben. These medical interns, at the beginning of this season 2, discover the hidden face of emergencies in the suburbs in incredible conditions (the flooding of part of the hospital).

And then we watched an episode, a second, a third… Impossible to pick up. The actors (Alice Belaïdi, Louise Bourgoin, Zacharie Chasseriaud, Karim Leklou, Bouli Lanners…) are crying out for the truth. Former doctor yourself, Thomas Lilti, you pay particular attention to taking care of the correctness of the gestures of the white coats, to highlighting the quasi-priestly involvement of health personnel faced, year after year, with tragic loss of health. means and the inherent suffering.

During the first season (end of 2018), when you imagined a strange virus that forces the regular doctors to confine themselves, some had joked about this too romantic bias. What follows proved you right. With the Covid, reality has outclassed fiction. On this second season, she even caught up with her in mid-flight: the shooting paused, you took back the blouse to give a hand to the real caregivers.

So, we were wondering, were you going to introduce the coronavirus in this season 2?

Without spoiling the pleasure of viewers who will catch up with the series in replay on MyCanal, let's say that it takes place for the most part a few weeks before this dramatic month of March 2020. The last episodes, magnificent uppercuts, have left us knocked out.

So, season 3 or not?

The aficionados of "Hippocrates", among which many readers of Parisien - Today in France, cross their fingers while awaiting your answer.

Thomas Lilti's response: "Yes, season 3 is planned"

Thomas Lilti, the creator of the "Hippocrates" series.

LP / Fred Dugit

The good news was first communicated to us by Canal + this Wednesday morning.

A little sentence that says (almost) everything: “A season 3 is in development, Thomas Lilti begins writing.

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A few hours later, it is the creator of "Hippocrates", the ex-doctor and director Thomas Lilti, who tells us (a little) more about the rest of this series telling the (mis) adventures of a group of medical interns in a hospital in the Paris suburbs.

“Yes, a season 3 is planned, he confirms to us.

It takes a lot of humility to tell the story of the hospital world in the health context that we live knowing that it takes at least between one and two years for a season to be on the air.

There are a billion possible avenues and lots of questions that I ask myself, but everything is in place to see the light of day.

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Rather than speculating on the evolution of the crisis, the author intends to refocus on his characters.

"I will first see what I want them to experience," he explains.

The question of care and that of the hospital as a mirror of society will also remain the pillars of the series.

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In the meantime, Thomas Lilti says he is "very happy" with the rave reviews on his season 2. "Some people feared that the spectators would be bored to plunge back into a hospital setting, I thought on the contrary that they would want to understand what it was happening there.

Fiction is complementary to information and documentary.

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Will we see the arrival of new players, like Bouli Lanners - the head of emergencies - this year? “A new season needs to build on the momentum of the others, while also incorporating a bit of change with one or two new characters. And how to integrate the new post-Covid codes? “When you make a film that takes place in people's daily lives, you can tell the story of life as before, without the masks. In a hospital, it's more complicated, he explained to us at the start of the year. But we are not going to film masked actors for 8 episodes of 52 minutes! These are real questions, we'll see what trick we find! »Screen responses in 2022 or 2023.