Leo Mattei on TF1: Will there be a 12th season for the series with Jean-Luc Reichmann?

Launched on February 15 on TF1, the 11th season of Leo Mattei, still helmed by Jean-Luc Reichman and Lola Dubin, ends on Thursday, March 7 at 9:10pm with the second part of the finale entitled “The White Horseman”. “.

Generally used to offering two episodes per night, TF1 actually decided to extend the treat and broadcast the final double episode over two weeks. Therefore, tonight, fans of the detective series broadcast since 2013 will be able to hear the results of the investigation with Clara Besson, Leo’s former colleague, played by Samira Lachab, who thus returned to the series eight years after her departure. .

Is Leo Mattei season 12 already planned?

In terms of audience, the first two episodes of Léo Mattei’s 11th season, which notably welcomed Lucy Lucas (Clam) and Paula Petrenko (Here It All Begins) as guests, drew an average audience of 3.80 million curious people on February 15. , which represents 21.4% of the entire population aged four and over and 16.6% of women under the age of 50 (FRDA-50).

The results were down from the start of season 10 in April 2023, which averaged 4.33 million viewers (23.7% of the audience and 18.8% of the FRDA-50).

Luckily, the Jean-Luc Reichman-starrer cop adventure didn’t lose fans this year and gained in weeks as episodes 2 and 3 pulled in 3.77 million viewers on February 22. (age 4 20.3% and FRDA-50 over and 17.1%, while last Thursday’s episode 5 allowed TF1 to triumph over the overall audience with an average of 4.14 million viewers (age 4 and over 20.8% and 15.3% of FRDA-50).

Even if the scores of women responsible for purchases under the age of 50, a desirable target for advertisers, are below the sometimes critical threshold of 20%, Leo Mattei continues with a solid fan base and the popularity of its lead actor who does not deny himself. . Enough to order TF1 for a 12th season?

As of now, TF1 has yet to officially order new episodes of the series. The channel will of course wait to have an audience for the entire season (including repeats) before making a decision.

Either way, the cast seems ready to get back on track. Like Bridget Foss, who suggested she would love to play Claude, Leo Matete’s mother, in a possible season 12: “I believe in predestination: what happens if what is meant to happen”he told Télé Loisirs. “It’s a character I really like, which is already part of the answer.”.

Mercato’s new series will replace Leo Mattei from March 14

Ahead of HPI’s much-anticipated return for a new season 4, the launch date of which has just been revealed, TF1 will be bringing you a new series from March 14 on the Thursday night Police box. Namely Mercato, carried by Arnaud Ducret, Manon Azem, Ilyes Kadri, Fouad Naba and Pierre-François Martin-Laval.

In this first season, in eight episodes, directed by David Houreg, Simon Astier and Gael Leforestier, Arnaud Ducré plays Thomas Chevalier, a police officer with an exemplary career who is at the airport at the moment of the historic arrival of OM. A new star in France is forced to intervene to neutralize a madman who is about to attack a football player. Inadvertently, he injures the player, ending Marcel’s dream before it begins.

The fiasco of his intervention leads to a sanction: his immediate transfer to the worst destination for this Parisian policeman, with the worst problem behind him: Marseilles…

There, Thomas has to lead a group with unorthodox methods, which includes Nora Cader, a young police officer who is out of control and different from him in every way. Together with his two deputies Julio Abdelaoui and Ange Colonna, these free electrons have already destroyed more than one group leader and acquired the worst reputation. No one wants to stick to it. But sanctioned Thomas has no choice. They don’t wear the same shirt, but they do the same job: police officers. And they will have to play in the same team, in Marseille.

Catch the first two episodes of Mercato next Thursday at 9.10pm on TF1.