Louise Bernard with Alexis Patri 10:47 am, October 15, 2021

France 3 broadcasts on Saturday evening the last episode of its successful detective series "Commissioner Magellan", after 12 years and ten seasons on the air and despite audiences still looking good.

Jacques Spiesser, who plays the screen commissioner, tells the microphone of Europe 1 to understand the decision taken by France Télévisions.

INTERVIEW

One more episode, and then it goes. The series of France 3 

Commissioner Magellan 

stops after the broadcast of a last episode on Saturday evening. A decision taken by France Télévisions after 12 years and ten seasons on the air and despite audiences still looking good. The public service television group wants to renew its fictions. The

Mongeville

series

also suffered the same fate, for the same reasons. At the time of the announcement of these decisions, the director of the fictions of France Télévisions Anne Holmes had justified this choice with

TéléLoisirs

by speaking of a "problem of the rich", because all the series of Saturday evening work very well on France 3.

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France Televisions must however stop some of them in order to be able to launch other fictions.

Launches of new fictions that she wants to put in place to avoid "purring".

Regarding

Commissioner Magellan

, 

the last episode broadcast on Saturday evening was not thought of as such.

At the time of filming, the end of the series had not been officially announced at the time of writing and filming.

However, Jacques Spiesser, who has played Commissioner Magellan for all these years, ensures that he understands the decision of France Télévisions. 

"I don't want to be some kind of Derrick!"

"It seems a little logical to me. The annoyance is that it works very well so people are not happy that it stops", observes the actor at the microphone of Europe 1. "It was a series very emotional for people. They had an empathy for the character of the commissioner, I felt it well. I am not the owner of this series and I understand that France Télévisions wants to renew itself a little. more to become some kind of Derrick! "

It must be said that Inspector Derrick was on the air for nearly a quarter of a century, 24 years to be precise.

The last episode of

Commissioner Magellan

is titled "Deadly Refrain".

The commissioner is investigating the murder of a somewhat forgotten singer who was preparing for his comeback.

It will be Saturday evening at 9:05 p.m., on France 3.