Such a great sun is going to experience a major upheaval this week. Explanations on a surprise decision.
It’s the start of the television season and, like every year, the channel schedules are experiencing their share of new features and upheavals. Among the notable changes of this 2024 back-to-school season, viewers will have to change their habits regarding one of their favorite soap operas, Such a big sun.
Launched in August 2018 on France 2, this daily soap opera follows the adventures of the inhabitants of Montpellier, with their joys, their sorrows, their secrets. Carried by a solid cast led by Mélanie Maudran, Moïse Santamaria and Valérie Kaprisky, Such a big sun has established itself as an unmissable event for nearly 4 million viewers every evening after the 8 p.m. news.
But from Monday September 9, it is no longer on France 2 that you will have to find the intrigues ofSuch a big sun. A change of channel that may surprise but which can be explained by several reasons. During the previous season, Un si grand soleil suffered numerous cancellations due to special programs linked to political news (European elections, legislative elections, etc.). Sudden cuts that greatly annoyed fans. “I understand the disappointment and the fed-upness of the public,” reacted Mélanie Maudran, one of the leading actresses of the series.
First objective therefore: to preserve the soap opera from these untimely deprogrammings. Promising every evening at 8:20 p.m. a new episode, preceded at 8:10 p.m. by the rebroadcast of the episode from the day before, will become the norm again. Enough to allow viewers to follow their program without interruption.
Another reason for this change is that France 2 wants to extend its 8pm news for a new, very bold format of an hour of news ending at 9pm. An upheaval which, in fact, excludes any other broadcasting in this slot. By getting rid ofSuch a big sunthe channel will also be able to bring forward its prime time bonuses to 9:05 p.m. instead of 9:10 p.m. Instead of Un si grand soleil, La Deux will broadcast a short program on the environment “At the source“and the musical show”Basic“.
So it is on France 3 that you will have to find Such a big sun from this Monday, September 9. This change suits both France 3 and France 2. La Trois thus recovers a popular daily soap opera, something it has been lacking since the end of More beautiful life in November 2022. The transfer is also dictated by the new strategy of France Télévisions, which wishes to make France 3 “the fiction channel” of the group.
Will the fans be there on France 3? Actor Fabrice Deville, who plays Florent in the series, wants to be reassuring: “Between France 2 and France 3, it’s a few millimeters between the buttons on the remote control. So I don’t see where the problem is. What would have bothered me is if the schedule changed. But here, it’s the same.” Answer in a few days.