MORE BEAUTIFUL LIFE END. Reports in the press suggested that Plus belle la vie was going to end at the end of the current season. The future of the France 3 soap opera is certainly uncertain, but not yet fixed.
[Mis à jour le 18 février 2022 à 20h20] 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. But a few hours after the release of this information, The Parisian is more cautious about the end of the series. The Ile-de-France media specifies that nothing has yet been decided: the end of PBLV “is in any case one of the options”, among others, for France Télévisions, which is currently discussing of the future of the daily soap opera.
France Télévisions spoke to Le Parisien, announcing that “our contract with Newen [société productrice du feuilleton, ndlr] ends on December 31, 2022. After this date, the end of Plus belle la vie, whose audiences are down, is a possibility. But it is not the only one. We have simply reopened the discussions, like two years ago.” Is there still hope for Plus belle la vie, the queen mother of daily fiction? In any case, it’s time to wait for the fans of the soap opera. If the end clap was recorded, Plus belle la vie could end at the end of the 2021-2022 season. The last full season, the 17th, ended on France 3 on August 27, 2021.
Plus belle la vie is a pioneering series in the audiovisual landscape. On the air since 2004, it has paved the way for new, more recent series, such as Tomorrow belongs to us and Here everything begins on TF1, Un si grand soleil on France 2. The arrival of this new competition would have impacted the audiences of the soap opera of France 3. Le Figaro gives the details of this loss of hearings. Beyond 4 million viewers for ten years (and 18% market share), it has lost many fans since 2018. According to Médiamétrie, audiences have stagnated on average at 2.6 million viewers each evening, for 11 .4% market share. A significant drop in audience, especially since the budget for the daily series is significant: nearly 30 million euros per year. According to Le Figaro, PBLV could therefore stop after 17 years of broadcasting, by August or September.
In the episodes of Plus belle la vie broadcast from February 21, Babeth is in denial and refuses to do a DNA test concerning Raphaël. Patrick is therefore forced to do it without his knowledge. The results come in: Raphaël is not their son. The biological son of Babeth and Patrick is called Rémy and he is at ASE. The Nebouts are ready to do anything to get it back, but is it still possible? At the same time, Patrick and Babeth also consider Raphaël as their son… will they be able to have custody of the two children?
Still in the episodes of Plus belle la vie for the week of February 21, now that Barbara has left the roommate, Mouss Nathan and Sabrina need to find a new roommate to help them pay the rent that Rochat has just increased. Fanny is just trying to get closer to her work and decides to come and settle with them. The problem is that it’s really cold in the apartment. Malika has indeed declared war on the roommates in order to push them out and make them pay rent
even higher to new tenants.
Finally, in the episodes of PBLV broadcast on France 3 from February 21, Karim confides in Ophélie that he feels liberated now that he has given Elsa the possibility of getting into a relationship with Revel. He jumps into the water and invites the driving instructor to dinner, who accepts without hesitation. The evening goes well until Ophélie recognizes that her biggest flaw is integrity. She can’t stand being lied to, she even left her last boyfriend because he hid from her that he had taken up smoking again. Uncomfortable, Karim decides to cut it short by cutting dinner short.
PBLV – 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 longevity, 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”, that is to say 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 at 8:20 p.m. Note also that the france.tv site offers to watch the series live on a smartphone, tablet or computer 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 Salto streaming platform also offers to find episodes of the soap opera in its subscription.
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: Bilal
- Marwan Berreni: Abdel Fedala
- Jerome BertinPatrick Nebout
- Theo Bertrand: Kevin Belesta
- Laurie Bordesoules as Emilie
- Caroline Bourg as Elsa
- Pauline Bression : Emma Rimez
- Jean-Charles Chagachbanian: Franck Ruiz
- Sam Chemoul: 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 Flepp : Mirta Torres
- Lea Francois: Barbara Evenot
- Emanuele Giorgi: Francesco Ibaldi
- Annie Gregorio : Claire
- Rachid Hafassa : 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 Latsko: Gabriel Riva
- Prudence Leroy: Fanny
- Florian Lesieur as Noé Ruiz
- Marie Mallia: Lola Corcel
- Avy Marciano : Sacha Malkavian
- Lola Marois: Ariane Hersant
- Pierre Martot: Leo Castelli
- Regis Maynard : Eric Norman
- Lara Menini: Eugenie Grange
- Stephanie Pareja: Jeanne Carmine
- Flavie Péan: Victory Lissajoux
- Ella Philippe: Nisma
- Grégory Questel : Xavier Revel
- Thierry Ragueneau: Francois Marci
- Marie Reache as Babeth Nebout
- Tim Rousseau: Kylian Corcel
- Caroline Riou: Laetitia Belesta
- Eleonora Sarrazin: Sabrina
- Charles Schneider: Claude Rochat
- Bryan Tresor: Baptiste Marci
- Thibaud Vaneck: Nathan Lesserman
- Elodie Varlet: 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.