• France Télévisions will set up its cameras from April in a former agricultural high school in Brittany.

  • Broadcast from this fall, this new daily soap opera will follow the journey of a group of five young people dreaming of becoming farmers.

  • The producers of this daily soap opera want to show another face of the agricultural world, often depicted in fiction in a dramatic way.

For these daily series, France Télévisions has taken to heading south with

Plus belle vie la vie

, filmed for eighteen years in Marseille, or

Un si grand soleil

, still on the air and set in Occitania.

For its new fiction project, the public service will venture out West.

In Brittany more precisely.

Closed since 2019, the former private agricultural high school in Etrelles, south of Vitré (Ille-et-Vilaine), will thus resume service for this daily soap opera which will feature a band of five young people training to become farmers.

“This rural youth is not often put on the screen when it nevertheless has a part of our future in its hands, underlines Augustin Bernard, producer and president of Black Sheep Films.

Agricultural high schools are also somewhat misunderstood and sometimes stigmatised.

Wrongly because it is exciting what happens inside.

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A happier look at the agricultural world

The series, whose filming will begin in April, will focus on very topical subjects such as breeding, food or the environment.

But it will also and above all be a question of youth.

“We are going to talk about the concerns of these young people, whether in their love life or their schooling, underlines Toma de Matteis, deputy director of France.tv Studio.

Nor do they all have the same origins, the same desires or the same visions of agriculture.

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The new daily series from France Télévisions also promises to bring another look at the agricultural world.

“Fiction often depicts it in a very dramatic way, believes Augustin Bernard.

There, we wanted something modern and joyful by following the journey of these teenagers.

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A season 2 already planned

Cut into 200 daily episodes of 7 episodes, with a 35-minute recap episode at the end of the week, the first season will land on the antennas of France Télévisions from this fall, without it being known yet on which channel.

A second season is already planned for this series, which will benefit from financial aid from the Brittany region and the Vitré Communauté agglomeration.

“There is still a lot of work to be done on the promotion of agriculture and its trades and we will do it through this series”, hopes Isabelle Le Callennec, mayor of Vitré and president of Vitré Communauté.



For the elected LR, the challenge is also economic with 200 days of filming planned on the territory just for season 1. “It was obvious anyway for us to shoot in Brittany which is the first agricultural region of Europe, assures Toma de Matteis.

This territory is irrigated by all the questions that will be addressed in this fiction.

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