"Black Baron" will not have a fourth season

Kad Merad (Philippe Rickwaert) and Anna Mouglalis (Amélie Dorendeu) in “Baron Noir”.

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We will never see Philippe Rickwaert in the exercise of power.

The political series

, launched in 2016 on Canal + and carried by Kad Merad, will not have a fourth season, announced the co-creator Éric Benzekri and the director of the fiction of Canal +, Fabrice de La Patellière to the magazine

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Co-creator Éric Benzekri wants to devote himself to other projects.

“And for us, it was not possible to continue without him,” explains Fabrice de La Patellière.

The creators of the series are also afraid of the season too much: “The tragic fall of season 3 closed a cycle since

based on the relationship between Philippe Rickwaert and Amélie Dorendeu, two characters with different conceptions of politics, which are loved and hated, ”says Eric Benzekri.

During the twenty-four episodes of the series,

had distinguished himself by his ability to anticipate major upheavals in the political world.

“It's difficult to write a political series at the moment.

The corollary of Covid is uncertainty.

The impossibility of predicting.

has succeeded in anticipating political life, but we are not diviners… ”, concludes Eric Benzekri.

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