School of Life: Bad news for fans of the series with Julie de Bona

End of suspension for fans of The School of Life: The France 2 school series will not be returning to air.

After the show’s first season in 2021, with Guillaume Labbe as a geo history teacher troubled by personal drama, and a proposed second this year with Julie de Bona as the new head teacher, the channel has decided to end the series and not order a 3rd season, according to reports Parisian.

“Young people in our school series don’t know themselves and adults don’t care”Justifies Anne Holmes, Director of Fiction and Director of Programs at France Télévisions, with our colleagues at the microphone.

Bad news for fans of school fiction after the suspension of La Faute à Rousseau last year, but also for all those who were hoping to see a possible third season of L’école de la vie devoted to Leo’s character, the professor. The first two batches of episodes interpreted by Bruno Sanchez.

“Of course, we can imagine a possible season 3 with Leo Costa, Bruno Sanchez’s character, but that would change the concept of the series, which is that there are recurring teachers, a new teacher, and new students. Per season.”Nagui, the producer of the series, confided about this topic a few weeks ago.

“Taking one of the recurring teachers, Bruno or otherwise, would destabilize the whole mindset and originality of the series. But… ellipses (laughs). We love Bruno Sanchez either way, of course.”.

Disappointed audience for The School of Life season 2

In any case, the school of life is responsible for a large part of the average audience achieved by the 2nd season under the direction of 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).

In April 2021, 3.31 million curious people (13.8% of the public and 11.5% of the FRDA-50) scored points from the start of Season 1. Life finished in front of 2.27 million subscribers on April 19.

Fortunately for fans of the school series, the Sam series will return to TF1 in a few months for Season 7, which will feature a big change.

Indeed, Natacha Lindinger will replace Hélène de Fugerole in the title role. Always surrounded by Fred Testot, Charlotte Gacchio or Chantal Ladessou, who returned after the sixth season in the form of a reboot of the campaign, which will be broadcast in early 2022 on the front page.