The first series of Florence Foresti and Xavier Dolan, Top Gun: Maverick… Canal+ unveiled its program for the 2022-2023 season on Wednesday, also focusing on F1 and the Champions League, which it will broadcast until 2029 and 2027 respectively.
A dozen original creations
In the absence of new sports competitions to promote, “we have secured a certain number of rights for a very long period”, welcomed the chairman of the management board, Maxime Saada, during a press conference inaugurating the new Group headquarters in Issy-les-Moulineaux, near Paris.
Enough to guarantee the “serenity” of the encrypted channel to the 9.6 million subscribers in France, a year after being robbed of the rights to Ligue 1 by Amazon and the day after the launch of new channels, Canal+ Foot and Canal + 360. “We are the first national channel when we broadcast a Formula 1 Grand Prix on Sunday”, noted to AFP Gérald-Brice Viret, director general of antennas and programs. “Even rugby today exceeds Ligue 1 in number of subscribers,” he added.
In terms of series, the Vivendi subsidiary will offer around ten original creations, including Ordersby and with Florence Foresti, and the biopic Marie Antoinette, in October. Added to this is the first series by Canadian filmmaker and actor Xavier Dolan, The night Laurier Gaudreault woke upadapted from a Quebec play, as well as a western, Django, worn by Matthias Schoenaerts and Noomi Rapace. Comedian Bertrand Usclat, who announced the end of his parody pastille this summer grazeswill stack again in 2023 with the same brand but in a longer format.
A documentary on the singer Dadju
Also on the program, a special evening for the 30th anniversary of Greenlandthe daily transition from ClickMouloud Achour’s show, a documentary on the singer Dadju or even the show The ideal kindanimated by Antoine de Caunes and dedicated to the seventh art.
In this area, the channel is delighted with the new media chronology, which allows it to broadcast films six months after their theatrical release, like Top Gun MaverickWhere Jurassic World. She is also counting on the new partnerships signed with Universal and Sony studios for “comparable amounts” to what TF1, a “free channel”, assured Maxime Saada to justify the ongoing conflict with the private channel.