END OF LIFE MORE BEAUTIFUL. The management of France Television announced this Thursday, May 5 in the afternoon that Plus belle la vie was going to end in November 2022 on France 3.
[Mis à jour le 5 mai 2022 à 16h30] Better life, it’s almost over. According to information from Parisian, then confirmed in an official press release, the management of France Television announced to its teams this Thursday afternoon the definitive end of the soap opera. No date has been announced for the final episode yet. The end of the series will take place in a few weeks. In a press release sent to AFP, the management of France Television specifies that “Plus belle la vie will conclude its long journey on the air in November 2022”.
The ax finally fell after several weeks of rumors and negotiations. We already knew that the future of Plus belle la vie was compromised, the audiences not having been there for several years. As a reminder, it has been 18 years since the flagship soap opera of the PAF was on the air, having started its broadcast on France 3 in 2004.
In its press release made public just after the meeting with the program teams, France Télévision explained that “the expectations of viewers and the consumption of programs have evolved over the past 18 years. In this context, a renewal of the creative offer is necessary. ” Indeed, audiences have been at half mast since 2018 and the arrival of competing soap operas, since the series has gone from nearly 5 million viewers to 2.5 million curious on average each evening.
Could a more beautiful life be taken up on another channel?
If France 3 gets rid of Plus belle la vie, maybe the series could find a new future elsewhere. In any case, this is what Thierry Lavaille, union representative, suggests to Le Parisien: “We cannot throw this story away like that, without respect for those who have struggled for eighteen years, another story abounds. We are talking about technicians who will find themselves unemployed in a few weeks. The media also specifies in its article that the production company Newen “recovers all the rights to the soap opera to possibly restart elsewhere”. We will probably have to wait a little longer before we know more.
Audiences down
Plus belle la vie has punctuated the daily life of the French since 2004. A pioneer of the genre, it started with audience successes and more than 5 million viewers in its debut, with peaks that could reach 7 million faithful. But since 2018 and the arrival of the competition (Tomorrow belongs to us, Here everything begins, Un si grand soleil), audiences have been at half mast and stagnated at 2.6 million curious people.
When will the end of Plus belle la vie be broadcast on France 3?
For the time being, France 2 has not yet announced a precise end date for Plus belle la vie. Filming is still in progress, with a special “Reunion” episode which will be broadcast on the channel in July 2022. In a press release sent to AFP, the management of France Television announces that the broadcast will end in November 2022.
program sheet
Plus belle la vie is a French series broadcast from Monday to Friday on France 3 since 2004. Each new episode can be discovered from 8:20 p.m. This is the French soap opera with the longest life, opposite Tomorrow belongs to us, Un si grand soleil or Here everything begins. In this series, viewers follow the daily life of the inhabitants of Marseille, who find themselves in the fictional Mistral district. Personal and societal intrigues intertwine with regularly changing detective stories.
Plus belle la vie fans often want to know what happens at the end of each episode. It’s hard not to succumb to the temptation to find out more. Fortunately, it is possible to see the episodes in advance, ie before they are broadcast on France 3, and therefore to find spoilers. Several options are available to you: first, go to France TV website, which broadcasts each morning the episode broadcast the same evening on France 3. The Salto streaming platform then offers the evening episode but also that of the next day in advance, for a subscription of at least €6.99/month. Finally, the MyCanal site offers to rent the episodes for €0.99, or to buy them for €1.49.
The producers of Plus belle la vie regularly publish “indiscretions”, ie short spoiler videos of the next episodes. An effective way to make France 3 viewers want to discover the rest of their favorite soap opera a few days in advance and to tease the developments in the current plot. These videos are uploaded daily to the official page of Plus belle la vie, indiscretion section, on france.tv. What feed the theories of viewers.
To follow the broadcast of Plus belle la vie live, it’s very simple: just go from Monday to Friday at 8:20 p.m. on France 3. Note also that the france.tv site offers to watch on smartphone, tablet or computer the series live at the same time. If you missed an episode of Plus belle la vie, it is possible to find it in replay and streaming. Just log on to the official site of Plus belle la vie or that of France Television. Note however that the episodes are available for 6 days on the site after their broadcast. Finally, the streaming platform somersault also offers to find the episodes of the series in its subscription.
The news had the effect of an earthquake this Thursday, February 17. Le Figaro taught us that Plus belle la vie, France 3’s flagship soap opera, was going to end at the end of its current season. The daily evokes the erosion of audiences since 2018 to justify such an initiative. On May 5, 2022, France Television confirms to the Plus belle la vie teams that the series will end in November 2022. However, according to Le Parisien, the production company Newen retains the rights to the series: nothing in theory prevents the resuming the program on another channel. However, nothing has been announced about it yet.
Since 2004, the list of actors and actresses in the cast of Plus belle la vie has changed a lot. Some continue to travel the Mistral, when new ones have appeared. Below, we offer you a non-exhaustive list of the main actors and actresses still on screen in Plus belle la vie:
- David Ban: Valentin Carrier
- Kjel Bennett as Bilal
- Marwan Berreni: Abdel Fedala
- Jerome BertinPatrick Nebout
- Theo Bertrand: Kevin Belesta
- Laurie Bordesoules as Emilie
- Caroline Bourg as Elsa
- Pauline Bression as Emma Rimez
- Jean-Charles Chagachbanian: Franck Ruiz
- Sam Chemoul as Tom Belesta
- Elisabeth Commelin: Yolande
- Michel Cordes: Roland Marci
- Marine Danaux: Sophie Corcel
- Anne Decis: Luna Torres
- Serge DupireVincent Chaumette
- Simon Ehrlacher: Romain Vidal
- Alexandre Fabre as Charles Fremont
- Sylvie FleppMirta Torres
- Lea Francois: Barbara Evenot
- Emanuele Giorgi as Francesco Ibaldi
- Annie Gregorio as Claire
- Rachid Hafassa as Karim Fedala
- Rebecca Hampton as Celine Fremont
- Marie Hennerez as Lea Nebout
- Stephane Henon: Jean-Paul Boher
- Cecilia Hornus as Blanche Marci
- Boubacar Kabo: Mouss Bonghor
- Laurent Kerusoré as Thomas Marci
- Léa Kerel: Therese Marci
- Joakim LatskoGabriel Riva
- Prudence Leroy: Fanny
- Florian Lesieur as Noé Ruiz
- Marie Mallia as Lola Corcel
- Avy Marciano: Sacha Malkavian
- Lola Marois: Ariane Hersant
- Pierre Martot: Leo Castelli
- Regis MaynardEric Norman
- Lara Menini: Eugenie Grange
- Stephanie Pareja: Jeanne Carmine
- Flavie Péan: Victory Lissajoux
- Ella Philippe as Nisma
- Gregory Questel: Xavier Revel
- Thierry Ragueneau: Francois Marci
- Marie Reache as Babeth Nebout
- Tim RousseauKylian Corcel
- Caroline Riou: Laetitia Belesta
- Eleonora Sarrazin as Sabrina
- Charles Schneider: Claude Rochat
- Bryan Tresor: Baptiste Marci
- Thibaud VaneckNathan Leserman
- Elodie Varlet as Estelle Cantorel
The plot of Plus belle la vie is difficult to summarize, as the series has changed since its creation in 2004. Every evening, it is possible to follow the daily life of the inhabitants of a fictional district of Marseille, the Mistral. Several intrigues are intertwined: a policewoman, who can stage different investigations, such as the hunt for a serial killer, assaults, the fight against the mafia or terrorism, more personal intrigues (romantic, family… ) and societal. Plus belle la vie has the particularity of being completely rooted in current events and does not fail to refer to real events, such as the death of a personality, attacks or elections.