Crimson Rivers on France 2: Will there be a Season 5?

Finish clapping for Crimson Rivers Season 4. Broadcast every Monday on France 2, the event saga Les Combattantes on TF1, the fourth unreleased installment of the successful detective series directed by Olivier Marshall and Erica Saint, indeed ends tonight with the final investigation called “The Scene”.

In this double episode, which gives pride of place to Erica Saint’s character, Camille Delaunay finds her former partner, Chloe, who calls on her for help to overcome a gruesome murder that seems to be in the past. Immersed in the world of sexual deviance and voyeurism, two women discover that the killer they are stalking is inspired by the first known voyeuristic scene dating back to antiquity: that of King Candaules, which spawned a very special movement: Candaulism.

Very special for Delon, will this investigation be the last for the heroes of the series Les Rivières pourpres, adapted from the novel of the same name by Jean-Christophe Granger?

On the viewer side, the detective series returned this year with a sharp drop and clearly suffered from competition from Les Combattantes on the front page and L’Amour est dans le pré on the M6. While season 3 averaged 4.04 million viewers last year, the first two episodes of season 4, offered on France 2 on September 19, attracted just 3 million curious people, for an audience of 14.4% of the general public ( 4,5). %) of women responsible for purchases under 50 years of age.

And unfortunately for the channel, the audience fell again in the second week, with episodes 3 and 4 of season 4 averaging just 2.51 million viewers (11.9% of the audience). before stabilizing last Monday at 2.48 million viewers ahead of Niemans and Delaunay’s adventures.

Those scores don’t really help renew the series, and might explain why France 2 hasn’t approached France 2 about a possible season 5 order yet. Our colleagues contacted us Entertainment televisionIt is explained in the production that it is only the fifth batch “not in the tubes yet”.

So, will the public attend the final episodes of Crimson Rivers tonight? future will show. But when we know that Olivier Marshall told us in March 2021 that he was not sure that he would continue beyond season 4, we tell ourselves that the end of the series is not in order, impossible.

“I think I’ll do season 4 without a problem, because I love the character and it’s a pretty classic series, like a lot of French series today. But I don’t know if I’ll continue beyond that. Not for the stories, just because of my age. I’m getting old (laughs) ). You have to be reliable. A 63-64-year-old policeman is more in the office than in the field.”.

Unless the producer and the channel are just waiting for the agenda of the actor and director to be a little less busy to start the 5th season.

Busy with the release of his new movie Overdose, which will be available on November 4th on Prime Video, we’ve learned that Olivier Marshall is set to begin filming in November on a sequel to the Bronx series, called Pax Massilia, in which he. will film all six 52-minute episodes for Netflix. The case will follow.