Tonight, Monday, August 27, France 2 launches such a big sun, new daily soap opera. A niche already invested by France 3, with Plus belle la vie (PBLV) and TF1 with Demain belongs to us.
Such a big sun is one of the big news of the autumn, on France 2. With six months late, the sun finally rises, tonight, on a new daily soap opera shot near Montpellier, in studios 16,000 m2, by a subsidiary of France Télévisions.
This serial is the new "baby" of Delphine Ernotte, the CEO of the group, after the launch of Franceinfotv . It will include 235 episodes for its first season. Budget: 35 million euros.
Despite our solicitations, we had only the first of the trailer (licked shots of the roofs of Montpellier, a car racing in the beautiful countryside, a dreamy heroine driving). It will take a few more hours to find out if the promised "modernity" will hit the corner of the screenplay.
Such a big sun is the reflection of a " current France, multiple, diverse, innovative ", with about forty actors in the credits. He tells of the return to the country, with his son Theo, Claire (Melanie Maudran) soon accused of the murder of an old friend and faced with family secrets.
The recipe has been proven for a long time in many sagas of TF1, which has launched its own daily soap opera last year. D emain belongs to us, who carries love and revenge on the port of Sète, draining 2.8 million faithful at the end of last week, at 7:20 pm.
The writer of Plus belle la vie
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By broadcasting its new program at 20 h 40, France 2 decided not to play the direct confrontation with TF1 . Neither to shade more beautiful life, on France 3 . The soap opera, with 4 million fans, anchored for thirteen seasons in Marseille has been advanced by ten minutes, at 20 h 20.
In the maneuver, writing side, we find in the two soap operas of the public service the scriptwriter Olivier Szulzynger. The first, in France, to have worked in the American on a series, with a fairly large team of writers.
Now, what offer to choose tonight? To bet on the novelty? Cling to familiar heroes? Prefer the drama of the news, which is also known in twists? We can also link these three fictional schedules. At the risk of getting lost in the lanes of the South. The question is: why not a more beautiful life in the Vendée or Normandy?
Tomorrow belongs to us , TF1, 19 h 20.
Such a great sun, France 2, 20 h 40.
More beautiful life, France 3, 20 h 20.