“Never a phone call”: After 8 years of success on French television, Francis Perrin was not even told that his series was ending.

If he was one of the main figures of French comedy in the 1970s and 1980s, especially directing Tête à Clapes and Le Joli Coeur, Francis Perrin continued his career in the following decades, until he had his own series in the early 2010s: Mongeville. .

To recall, Montgeville saw actor Antoine Montgeville, a retired investigating judge involved in the investigation of a member of the local police force, played by Marie Moute (in season 1) and Gael Bona (in subsequent seasons). The series was a huge success, but was canceled overnight, and Perrin seems to have found out the hard way:

And he left Tomorrow Belongs to Us under the same circumstances

“I didn’t know I was laundry”

guestEurope 1Francis Perrin reflected on this cancellation, which he noted:

I never got on the phone to say it was stopping, but oh well. (…). They told me it was a rebrand and I said, I didn’t know I was a detergent.

“It’s a bit of a shame because we were a hit on France 3 and now on C8. They didn’t even tell me it was moved to C8. I was very happy after that, but it’s crazy, it’s incomprehensible. It’s clear that people love Monjville and follow and They watch it, but it’s a shame there wasn’t a sequel (…) a hit on Saturday night’.

Indeed, looking at the audience for the series, it represented between 12.4 and 22% of the market share on France 3 during its 2013-2021 airing. During its eight years of existence, it gathered an average of 4 million viewers for each show. 26 episodes. If the series runs out of new content, C8 currently airs old episodes every Wednesday in primetime.

Since then, we can happily see Frances Perrin in Tomorrow Belongs to us in 2021 and 2022.