After a season 2 with disappointing audiences carried by Julie de Bona, the series “The School of Life” stops and will not return for a season 3 on France 2.
End of suspense for fans of The School of Life: the France 2 school series will not return to the air.
After a first season broadcast in 2021 with Guillaume Labbé in the role of a history-geo teacher upset by a personal drama, and a second proposed this year with Julie de Bona as the new main teacher, the channel has decided to put a end to the series and not to order a season 3 according to information from the Parisian.
“Young people do not recognize themselves in our school series, and the older ones are not interested in them”justifies Anne Holmes, the director of fiction and director of programs for France Télévisions, at the microphone of our colleagues.
Bad news for lovers of school fiction, after the stop last year of La Faute à Rousseau, but also for all those who hoped to see a possible third season of L’école de la vie devoted to the character of Léo, professor recurrent of the first two batches of episodes interpreted by Bruno Sanches.
“We can of course imagine a possible season 3 carried by Léo Costa, the character of Bruno Sanches, but that would shift the concept of the series, which is that there are recurring teachers, and a new teacher and new students. per season”confided on this subject Nagui, the producer of the series, a few weeks ago.
“Taking one of the recurring teachers, whether Bruno or another, would destabilize all the thinking and all the originality of the series. But… ellipses (laughs). We love Bruno Sanches in any case, c sure”.
Clément LEPETIT / Fiction’Air
Disappointing audiences for season 2 of The School of Life
In any case, the school of life bears the brunt of the very average audiences achieved by season 2 led by Julie de Bona in April on France 2.
The first two episodes, which aired on April 5, averaged just 2.66 million viewers, representing 13.4% of the overall audience and 6.4% of female purchasing managers under 50. (FRDA-50).
Scores down from the start of season 1, which had gathered 3.31 million curious people (13.8% of the public and 11.5% of the FRDA-50) in April 2021. And who only did crumble over the weeks since season 2 of The School of Life ended its run in front of 2.27 million followers on April 19.
Fortunately, for lovers of school series, the Sam series will return to TF1 in a few months for a season 7 marked by a big change.
Indeed, Hélène de Fougerolles will succeed Natacha Lindinger in the title role. Always surrounded by Fred Testot, Charlotte Gaccio or Chantal Ladesou, who are back after a sixth season in the form of a campaign reboot broadcast at the start of 2022 on the front page.