On August 30, 2004, viewers of France 3 attended the first episode of a soap opera that will accompany them for eighteen years! But after so many years of good and loyal service, More beautiful life will bow out as announced a few months ago. Anne Holmes, Director of Programs France Televisionsconfirmed the bad news to our colleagues from Tele-Leisure a few days ago.
“The average audience was no longer as good. The public told us that they had lost the fundamentals”she regretted before talking about the pandemic and the problems that resulted from it: “Following the Covid epidemic, the series was at one time disconnected from the news. And there was the arrival of platforms and new soap operas… We therefore decided not to renew the series and to use the budget for new fiction. Stopping a series that has existed for eighteen years, which has made the big hours of television and which employs very many people is not a decision that one takes lightly”.
Christophe Morillon comes out of his hinges
After this sad announcement and the many reactions of the fans, many actors reacted. However, it was not Kjel Bennett, who played Bilal Fedala, who spoke. This one having been fired by the production according to Clément Garin, he could have emptied his bag without worrying about the fallout. It was finally Christophe Morillon, interviewed by Captain Cinemaxx, who expressed his anger during a live broadcast. “We’ve known about it for a while. Technicians, make-up artists, costume designers will find work. For actors stamped More beautiful life, it’s more complicated. They didn’t deserve this”he regretted at first.
The actor of More beautiful life going further and attacking directly France Televisionswithout mincing words: “There is a bad choice that was made. They wanted to continue broadcasting and they ran out of stock. Afterwards, there are three daily series that landed. It eats you up from the audience. Despite everything, PBLV remains to just under 3 million viewers. And overnight, we decide to kick you out because you’re not bringing in enough money. I think it’s a shitty mentality, it’s not good. don’t get rid of people like that”. The actor later assured that there was “always solutions and I hope they will find one because they deserve it”. A way for him to point the finger at the poor management of the media? Maybe.
See also: “More beautiful life”: towards the end of the series?
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