Plus belle la vie: the series ends definitively after 17 years!

Hard to believe, and yet! After 17 years of existence and nearly 4,500 episodes, the cult soap opera More beautiful life should end in 2022 at the end of its 18^th seasonreveals The Figaro this Thursday, February 17. In question: the audiences at half mast of the Newen program (the production subsidiary of the TF1 group), which faced with increasingly tough competition in the world of soap operas, is struggling to win as many viewers as it did when it started. By way of comparison, between 2006 and 2014, More beautiful life averaged 5 million viewers, with peaks of up to 6.8 million. Today, the daily audience of the series is closer to 2 million faithful. A score far from trivial, but which is no longer enough for the chain to continue production…

Launched August 30, 2004, More beautiful life marked the history of French television by becoming, on July 11, 2008, the first serial to reach the bar of the thousandth episode (then the two thousandth, the three thousandth and the four thousandth). In 18 seasons, the series has seen more than 2,000 actors (2314 as of August 6, 2018, according to TV 2 weeks), some of whom have been in the cast since the very first episode. Sylvie Flepp (Mirta), Michel Cordes (Roland), Laurent Kérusoré (Thomas) and Cécilia Hornus (Blanche) are among those, and it will be very difficult to say goodbye to them in the near future…

Contacted by the editorial staff of TV StarFrance 3 declined to comment on this announcement.

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