In Marseille, the stop of “Plus belle la vie” upsets the audiovisual sector
France Télévisions announced it on May 5: the broadcast of “Plus belle la vie” will stop in November. In the city where the series has been filmed for nearly eighteen years, the announcement is divided between fears of economic fallout and the need for renewal.
The news is now official. After eighteen seasons, the daily soap opera More beautiful life ends. France Télévisions announces on May 5 to the film crew, in the sets of the series, located at the Belle de Mai media center, in Marseille. “The rumor had been circulating for a while. But we were still stunned by the brutality of the announcement, given that France Télévisions had been denying it since February”, says Thierry Lavaille, sound recording operator and Force Ouvrière union delegate. “It is a spirit, a family, which today is disappearing…” regrets the one who worked for seventeen years behind the scenes of the Mistral, the fictional district where More beautiful life.
“The series was TV’s most iconic gathering, but in recent years its power has waned,” remarks Stéphane Sitbon Gomez, director of antennas and programs at France Télévisions. The audiences, which, in the first years of broadcasting, could reach 7 million viewers, no longer have 2.3 million today. Significantly lower figures, which encouraged the end of the series. The last shootings will take place in September, and the last episodes will be broadcast in November.
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