Paris (AFP)
They have 4 to 9 children and see everything big. TF1 launched Monday "Large families: life in XXL", a docu-reality that follows with great tenderness the daily lives of families not quite like the others.
Broadcast from Monday to Friday at 5.15 p.m. on TF1 (and rebroadcast on Friday in the first part of the evening on TFX), the show tells the story of seven families who have agreed to share their big and small moments, alternating between sequences full of emotion and mundane moments.
Their common point: a number of children well above the average of French households, which is around 2.
But their profiles are very varied: alongside a Catholic and military family, the Jeanson, who return from an expatriation in the United States, there are for example the Gayat, all of whose members have thousands of subscribers on social networks, Beaufour, who try to reconcile large family and zero waste lifestyle, or Santoro, young parents who already have 5 children but do not let themselves be overwhelmed ...
A program "very feel good and which makes you want to have other children," says Othilie Barrot, deputy director of TF1 Production, a subsidiary of the chain which designed this new program.
Families were recruited via every conceivable channel: "The best way to find them was through social networks, mainly Instagram and Facebook", but also "blogs, podcasts, the press ...", describes- she.
This program was born from discussions between TF1 Production and the chain, which regularly launches new program formats on this strategic pre-evening schedule, rather than simply adapting programs that have already proven themselves abroad. .
"Large families is a theme that always works quite well, it is unifying and we thought that it could appeal to a very family audience," explains Othilie Barrot. Especially since the launch coincides with the summer holidays, "a time of the year when children, parents, grandparents are together, even more this year".
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