“Plus belle la vie” ends this Friday, November 18 on France 3 with the broadcast of a prime event. We explain how the soap opera ends and what possible future may exist for the series and the channel.
14:31 – The great absentees from the end of Plus belle la vie
If some made the trip for the final of More beautiful life, other fan-favorite actors are conspicuous by their absence. This is the case of Aurélie Vaneck (Ninon), Jules Fabre (Théo), Laëtitia Milot (Mélanie Rinato), Coline d’Inca (Sybille Cassagne), Pauline Bression (Emma Rimez), Jean-Charles Chagachbanian (Franck Ruiz) , Delphine Rollin (Delphine Bommel), Anne Canovas (Anemone Vitreuil), Caroline Bourg (Elsa), Juliette Chêne (Juliette Frénon), Hélène Médigue (Charlotte Le Bihac) or even Sam Chemoul (Tom Gassin).
14:08 – Former actors back tonight for the end of Plus belle la vie
More beautiful life ends this Friday, November 18, 2022. For the special bonus “Seven weddings and a funeral”, former actors from the series are back for an appearance alongside other Mistralians. Virgile Bayle (Guillaume Leserman), Charles Frémont (Alexandre Fabre), David Baiot (Djawad Sangha), Lucas (Geoffrey Sauveaux), Johanna (Dounia Coesens), Rudy (Ambroise Michel) and Jocelyn (Jean-Marie Galey) returned for this symbolic episode and to bid farewell to the series. Fabienne Carat (Samia) and Laurent Orry (Jérôme) also made an appearance in the previous episodes, in the form of ghosts.
13:36 – Why Plus belle la vie stops?
The end of More beautiful life was recorded last February, through Le Figaro, which relayed the information before the production announced it to the team. The end of the series is officially confirmed in May 2022. The reasons for the series’ end are linked to audience and budget concerns. Each year, the series cost more than 35 million euros, but the audience has been halved over the last five years. They were only 2.6 million viewers on average at the start of 2022, i.e. only nearly 10% of audience shares. Above all, the younger public does not respond to the appointment. So many reasons that led to the end of More beautiful life.
13:09 – A difficult conversion for the actors of Plus belle la vie
Some actors from More beautiful life have played in the France 3 series for 18 years. The end of the program this Friday, November 18 thus raises the thorny question of their retraining. And this can be complicated for actors who remain marked by the role they have played during all these years. In the book “Embodying a series” by Télérama journalist Pierre Langlais, Laurent Kérusoré (Thomas Marci) compares this role to a “golden cage”: “Gold is relative job security. The cage is is that it’s done: I was and will remain Thomas Marci for most viewers, channel decision makers and producers.” For her part, Fabienne Carat explained that we “cannot generalize”: “There are some who will do lots of other things and others for whom the label will be too strong. It’s inexplicable.”
12:34 – Is a sequel to Plus belle la vie possible?
More beautiful life ends on France 3 this Friday, November 18, 2022. But all may not be lost for fans of the soap opera. A collective of actors, technicians and authors have set up a Cooperative Production Company (Scop) to save the series and above all the 1200 jobs it generates, we learn The Marseillaise. The objective: to recover the exploitation rights of PBLV and produce a sequel which would be put online on a dedicated platform, in the form of a web-series. The Scop would be in contact with Newen, the company producing the soap opera, to recover the rights. So far, no agreement has apparently been reached.
12:06 – Laurent Kérusoré (Thomas) very “moved” by the end of the series
The end of More beautiful life is particularly difficult for all the people who have worked on the series for 18 years. This is the case of Laurent Kérusoré, interpreter of the unforgettable Thomas Marci, present since 2005. With Télé Loisirs, the actor remembered with emotion his last day on the set of France 3: “La production m’ had asked to be in the last shot. I hadn’t thought that I would say goodbye to everyone. The evening at the hotel, it wasn’t joyful. We understood day by day that that’s it it was all over. We were Kings and Queens, the actors, the technicians, the production. We took everything head on and head on. We came to a happy end with tears of love. I will never forget those last few weeks of More beautiful life. I’m still a little moved to talk about it.”
11:44 – The actors of Plus belle la vie bid farewell to viewers
The end of More beautiful life affects both viewers and actors. The latter wanted to write a word to the attention of their fans, a few hours before the broadcast of the series finale, reports The Parisian in an exclusive forum: “How many smiles, tears, anecdotes, winks shared over time? So today we want to say thank you. Millions of thanks! Thank you to every viewer who watched , recorded, criticized, loved, hated, made fun of More beautiful life. Because that’s all that allowed More beautiful life to last so long […] Thank you to each of you for your unwavering support.”
11:22 – Why does the end of Plus belle la vie mark a turning point in the history of TV?
Series that stop, there are every year. But the end of More beautiful life caused a real media earthquake. It must be said that this is the first modern French soap opera, created in 2004 well before tomorrow belongs to us, Here it all starts Where such a big sun. Its extraordinary longevity (18 years and more than 4600 episodes, all the same!) has allowed it to stand out among the other programs of the PAF. Furthermore, until 2018, More beautiful life made the most of the audiences of France 3, while daring to deal with very modern societal subjects, such as gay marriage or even transidentity.
10:58 – How does Plus belle la vie end? The end of the soap opera summarized (2/2)
Obviously, nothing will happen as planned in the end of More beautiful life. Barbara will discover that Abdel is the father of her son, and the latter that he has feelings for his ex. Exit Elsa, Barbara and Abdel are getting married. With Guillaume’s return, Luna, upset, decides to unite symbolically with the two men in her life, which Guillaume and Bastien accept. Despite Djawad’s return, Estelle and Francesco get married well. Finally, everyone gets married on the same day and celebrates on the Place du Mistral, before starting a flash-mob with the entire technical team behind the series.
10:36 – How does Plus belle la vie end? The end of the soap opera summarized (1/2)
The most impatient have already been able to watch the end of More beautiful life, while others await the broadcast tonight. You don’t have time to watch the end but you want to know how the series ends? We summarize the main elements of this final: Kylian and Betty decide to get married and announce it to the inhabitants of the Mistral. This gives the idea to other couples to do the same, like Francesco and Estelle, Kevin and Alexandra, Luna and Bastien, Abdel and Elsa, Blanche and François but also… Yolande and Mirta (for financial reasons)! The return of Guillaume, awakened from a coma, however, will wreak havoc on Luna’s couple, who must choose between their current companion and their former love.
10:13 – Where to watch the end of Plus belle la vie in advance?
The devotees of More beautiful life already know it: it is possible to see the episodes of the soap opera of France 3 before their broadcast. The episodes and the bonus of this Friday, November 18 are no exception to the rule. The France Television website already offers to discover everything in streaming, while the most impatient have been able to discover since Thursday the end of Plus belle la vie on the paid subscription streaming platform somersault. So many possibilities to discover what awaits the Mistralians in this highly anticipated finale!
09:51 – Which program will replace Plus belle la vie?
For a long time it was a mystery: which program will be broadcast instead of More beautiful life, taking the famous box of 8:20 p.m. on France 3? From this Monday, November 21, viewers of the third channel will be able to discover the culinary program entitled Open kitchenlaunched in 2021. We can notably find there Mory Sacko, former candidate of Top chef. The objective of this program: to honor French culinary diversity. This program was already broadcast on Saturday evenings. It will now be offered in daily rebroadcast from Monday to Friday, before a new episode on Saturday. It will be followed by the weather forecast and the sports magazine all sports at 8:45 p.m.
09:33 – More beautiful life, it’s over tonight
End clap for More beautiful life. The France 3 soap opera bows out this Friday, November 18, 2022, after 18 years of broadcasting. For the occasion, France 3 has planned a special program: from 8.15 p.m., two episodes of 20 minutes each are broadcast, before the prime event entitled “Seven weddings and a funeral”, which lasts 1 hour 40 minutes and concludes the plot of most characters. This will put a definitive end to the series. From 10:50 p.m., fans of the soap opera can discover the documentary “The great adventure of Plus belle la vie” which looks backstage and the history of the soap opera.