Broadcast every Tuesday on France 3, “Tandem”, with Astrid Veillon and Stéphane Blancafort, will soon end after seven seasons. However, an idea of a prequel with other actors playing younger versions of Paul and Léa has been mentioned.
After seven seasons and 84 episodes, the successful detective series Tandem, led by Astrid Veillon and Stéphane Blancafort, will end on June 13 on France 3, following a final investigation which promises not to be missed for all fans of the adventures of Léa Soler and Paul Marchal.
The two heroes of Tandem, who were once married and have not stopped turning around since their separation, will they get back together by the end of the series? While a kiss, which initially provoked the anger of Astrid Veillon, has just been exchanged last Tuesday between Léa and Franck (François-Dominique Blin), nothing seems less sure for the moment.
Let the fans be reassured, however: the finale of season 7, thought of as a real end to the series, will be followed in the coming months by an event TV movie, the shooting of which has just started in the South of France. , under the direction of Astrid Veillon herself, who goes behind the camera for the first time.
A nice gift for fans of the series, especially since this unit will return to the meeting of Paul and Léa in the 90s, long before the start of Tandem.
But if this mega 90-minute episode had not seen the light of day, France 3 viewers might have had the pleasure of discovering a series derived from Tandem in the form of a prequel, as Anne Holmes recently told us. , the director of programs and director of fiction at France Télévisions.
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“We happen to have the actors, since Astrid and Stéphane are back for this one-off. But if Astrid hadn’t wanted to shoot this TV movie, it would have been fun to imagine a prequel, in the form of “How did they met?”, with other actors who would play younger Léa and Paul”indeed told us Anne Holmes about this idea of Tandem prequel which germinated in her head before being visibly abandoned in favor of the final TV movie to come.
“It could have been tried”continues the boss of the fiction of France Télévisions. “There it turns out that Astrid and Stéphane are in for this TV movie which looks back on the past of the heroes. But maybe for the next of our series which will stop, we will do it, we will have fun imagining a prequel or a spin-off of this kind. It would be funny, it’s tempting. As I had fun doing the first crossover between Mongeville And Magellan few years ago”.
Will this interesting prequel idea be recycled in the years to come, once Astrid and Raphaëlle, Alex Hugo or Captain Marleau stop, in order to tell the young years of the emblematic heroes of France 2 and France 3 ? The future will tell.