‘People kept good memories’: Frances Perrin was touched by her experience in the Montville series

Mongeville fans have never recovered from the surprise cancellation of their detective series overnight. Comfortably, neither did its star Frances Perrin!

For sale at the beginning of the month part Lily and Lily The former actress returns to her television experience with Michel Bernier and Frances Perrin, which only one regrets (via Ciné Télé Revue and Télé Loisirs) :

“He could have lived longer”

“My only regret is that it ended a little too quickly. It could have had a longer life, let’s say a little longer. That’s the embarrassment of television decision-makers. We’ll get over it very quickly.”

Mongeville still achieved a good audience on France 3, but the management of France Télévision wanted to stop it. At the time, Francis Perrin publicly protested this decision (he returns to the issue regularly), and petition It was even passed by viewers to keep the series on air.

Unfortunately, France Télévision kept its intention and on February 10, 2021, The ax falls : Monjville is cancelled, as is Commissar Magellan. At the time, Ann Holmes, the channel’s director of fiction, justified her decision:

“It doesn’t make me happy, but…”

“We have so many things that work. But at some point, if we don’t put out new fiction, we’re going to shut down. We have to renew. But you need space to run new stuff. There’s only 52 Saturdays in the year, so I have to stop series that are about ten years old, even if they’re hits. That’s a real problem. I’m not happy with the murders…, I can’t shoot anything.”

Therefore the series never saw a real ending or at least a satisfying conclusion for the characters and did not experience a surprise return. Francis Perrin sees it philosophically:

“The comforting thing is that people have good memories of Mongeville. People tell me: ‘There are programs and we enjoy watching them.’

Francis Perrin is currently on stage with Michel Bernier Lily and LilyBarillet and Grady’s play, previously performed by Jacqueline Mylan, but here revisited and modernized. The story is about two twin sisters, one a successful Hollywood star and the other a bit awkward and a pastor’s wife.