What does “Here Everything Begins”, a new daily series from TF1, look like?

“Here Everything Begins”: What does TF1's new daily series look like?

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• Televisual event alert: TF1 will launch, on November 2,

  Ici Tout Begins

  , the fourth French daily soap opera.

• The series takes place in a cooking school and is carried in part by actors from

  Demain Nous Belongs

  , from which it is derived.

• 20 Minutes

   brings you up to date on everything you need to know about the new bet from the first channel in France.

TF1 will play it

, or almost.

In parallel with

, the channel will focus on its new daily soap opera anchored in the merciless world of cooking.

Launched on Monday, November 2 at 6.30 p.m.,

takes place behind the closed doors of the Auguste Armand Institute, an arena in which the future great chefs of gastronomy compete.

A risky bet for TF1 which will offer a block of one hour of daily fiction, a first on French TV.

On the program, all the elements that already make the salt of the daily series: “personal and professional revenge, family secrets but also all the

of the art for which we sacrifice ourselves to succeed”, lists the producer Sarah Farahmand.

Where

will stand out from its sisters, it is thanks to its unity of place.

"We made the choice to evolve in a closed place where all passions, family secrets will be multiplied tenfold because everyone lives together", adds the producer.

For this, the film crews set down their suitcases in Saint-Laurent-d'Aigouze, in the Gard, 25 kilometers east of Montpellier.

The production has taken over a castle and its four-hectare park, transformed into a cooking school and a campus where the students live.

"80% of the episodes are shot in this setting but also in the salt marshes of Aigue-morte", specifies Sarah Farahmand.

A multigenerational casting

Over the days, viewers will uncover the stories and secrets of about five great families.

"We have mixed generations, a generation of promising young talents as well as a prestigious and recognized cast," explains Anne Viau, director of French fiction at TF1.

On the student side, the channel has bet on faces that the public knows, such as those of Clément Rémiens and Azize Diabaté, but also young actors for whom

is a first experience.

Frédéric Diefenthal and Vanessa Demouy, already in

, embody the faculty headed by Francis Huster.

The actor lends his features to Auguste Armand, chef and director of the institute that bears his name.

Around him, we find Elsa Lunghini (the interpreter of

), Agustín Galiana, Catherine Marchal or even Benjamin Baroche.

A casting of 500 actors was organized in Montpellier and Paris for a total of 30 characters.

A "cousin of

Tomorrow Belongs to Us 

"

Presented as the “cousin of

 ”,

will differ from the first by its tone.

While the mother series changes police intrigue every four weeks or so, the newcomer will bring "a romantic breath" at the end of the day of TF1.

So that the two fictions do not repeat themselves, their writing is shared, which makes it possible to coordinate the plots and avoid similarities on the screen.

In all, thirty authors are on the bridge to create the plots of the 250 episodes that make up a season.

Over the course of the school year, the series will follow around twenty students, promising a multiplicity of intrigues.

Among the themes covered, misogyny in the kitchen and the quest for gender identity, in particular through the character of Eliott, non-binary and pansexual.

The world of gastronomy will obviously have a preponderant part and the actors have also been trained in handling products thanks to a real chef, in order not to encourage viewers to reproduce dangerous gestures.

Cooking, a hyper-unifying domain on television, will it be enough to attract the public to TF1 at 6.30 pm?

The first episode, which

was able to discover in preview, plunges viewers into the stress of the kitchens and gives a foretaste of this "romantic breath" wanted by the production, not without risking offending the sensitivity of the youngest. .

See you on November 2 to find out if the sauce has set.

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