Salto, MyCanal, Arte.tv, OCS, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+ and even Starzplay… In addition to all the television channels! Faced with this gargantuan serial offer, you can no longer keep up? 20 minutes selects for you each month the best new series coming out in France and provides you with the calendar (regularly updated) of the dates of broadcast or posting of new series or new seasons of your favorite fictions.
The series not to miss in April
The stylized “Mister 8” marivaudage
A stylized Finnish marivaudage in black and white! Mr. 8, fiction crowned best series during season 4 of CanneSeries, follows the adventures of Maria (Krista Kosonen who renews the archetype of the femme fatale), CEO of a family business which has the particularity of having not one, but seven spouses. Each of them is contractually assigned by the businesswoman a day of the week. When she meets and falls under the spell of Juho (Pekka Strang), an engineer who has just moved to town, her well-organized life is about to change… A dark romantic comedy, which shakes up the codes both narratively and visually, not to be not miss April 1st on Canal+ Series and MyCanal.
The Theranos scam in “The Dropout”
Love, lies and greed. The Dropout, miniseries in eight episodes available on April 20 on Disney +, looks back on one of the biggest scam cases in Silicon Valley. Brilliant, successful entrepreneur, Elizabeth Holmes (Amanda Seyfried) has become the youngest self-made billionaire in the history of the industry. His flourishing Theranos company is now one of the flagships of the new industry. However, blinded by an excessive ambition and a totally perverted desire for fame, she will lose all her empire and experience an equally spectacular fall…
The Watergate scandal in “Gaslit”
The year 2022 marks fifty years since the Watergate affair. The anthology series Gaslitavailable April 24 on Starzplay and led by a five-star cast (Julia Roberts, Sean Penn, Dan Stevens, Betty Gilpin, Shea Whigham, Allison Tolman) invites you to rediscover this affair of political espionage which led, in 1974, to the resignation of Richard Nixon. Gaslit features, from an unprecedented angle, unknown actors, long neglected, but essential to the fall of the 37th President of the United States… From Nixon’s subordinates to whistleblowers, a thrilling dive into the heart of one of the political scandals most resounding in history.
The “explosion” made in Italy, “Bang Bang Baby”
A thriller bubblegum in the colorful Milan of the mid-1980s! Bang Bang Baby, Amazon Prime Video’s first Italian original series, which will premiere in long-form competition at CanneSeries before it goes live on April 28, follows the adventures of Alice (Ariana Becheroni), a shy and awkward teenager, whose life will be turned upside down when she discovers that her father, whom she believed dead for years, is alive. She then goes to meet the family of the latter, the Barones, clan of the Milanese branch of the mafia. Out of love for her father, Alice slowly sinks into the criminal world… “An authentic explosion”, promises the CanneSeries festival.
The metaphysical thriller “Shining Girls”
Zoey Bartlett in the political series To the White HousePeggy Olson in the Drama Series madmenRobin Griffin in the detective mini-series Top of the Lake and June Osborne in the dystopian series The Handmaid’s Tale: The Scarlet Handmaiden… Looking through Elizabeth Moss’ career is like making a list of the best shows of all time. The actress returns in a new Apple TV+ series, titled The Shining Girls, April 29. In this fiction created by Silka Luisa, adaptation of the bestseller The Luminous by Lauren Beukes, which she produces, Elizabeth Moss plays Kirby Mazrachi, an archivist in a Chicago newspaper when she aspired to become a journalist before a traumatic attack shatters her dream… When she learns that a recent murder is tied to her assault, she teams up with seasoned but tormented reporter Dan Velasquez (Wagner Moura) to unmask her attacker. A metaphysical thriller follows where a serial killer shatters space-time in search of female victims.
The schedule of broadcasts in France
GentlemanJackseason 2 unpublished in April and in US + 24 on OCS
Friday April 1
Slow Horsesseason 1, Apple TV+
Mr. 8season 1, 4 episodes per evening on Fridays at 9 p.m. on Canal+ Series, and available in full on MyCanal
chucky, season 1, somersault
Chicago Fireseasons 1-7, Amazon Prime Video
Boarding school: Las Cumbresseason 2, Amazon Prime Video
Wolf Like Meseason 1, Amazon Prime Video
Mafia Queens, seasons 1 and 2, on Arte.tv
Sunday April 3
Downton Abbeycomplete, from Sunday April 3 at 9 p.m. on Téva
Monday april 4th
New York: Organized Crimeseason 2, at 9 p.m. on 13th Street
Infiniti2 episodes per evening on Mondays at 9 p.m., and available in full on MyCanal
Tuesday, April 5
Sentinelsseason 1, at 8:40 p.m. on OCS Max
Wednesday 6 April
The Little Murders of Agatha Christieseason 2, Wednesdays from April 6 at 8:50 p.m. on TV Breizh
alternative therapyseason 1, Disney+
Single Drunk Femaleseason 1, Disney+
Crazy Chefsseasons 1 and 2, Disney+
Friday April 8
Derby Girlseason 2, France.tv Slash
Dirty Linesseason 1, Netflix
Eliteseason 5, Netflix
Dr HouseIntegral, Salto
Under the sunseasons 1 to 13, Salto
Monday April 11
Black Cover, season 3, Toonami
Tuesday April 12
HardCellseason 1, Netflix
Clemseason 12, at 9:10 p.m. on TF1
Wednesday April 13
Happy… or almost (Almost Happy)season 2, Netflix
Your mother embeds itseason 1, Netflix
Disturbing disappearancenew episode “Under pressure 7, at 9:05 p.m. on France 2
The Killingseasons 1 to 4, Disney+
I promise youseasons 1 and 2, Disney+
HPI, season 1, Disney+
Friday April 15
Outer Rangeseason 1, Amazon Prime Video
Roarsseason 1, Apple TV+
Anatomy of a Scandalseason 1, Netflix
May: A Mother’s Rage (May)season 1, Netflix
Belgraviaseason 1, somersault
Tuesday April 19
Better Call Saulseason 6, Part 1, Netflix
Wednesday April 20
In a Beat (The Marked Heart)season 1, Netflix
Yakamoz S-245season 1, Netflix
Russian dollseason 2, Netflix
The Dropout, season 1, Disney+
Homeland, seasons 1 to 8, Disney+
Thursday April 21
Mr. Hiyama’s Pregnancy (He’s Expecting)season 1, Netflix
Friday April 22
Heartstoppingseason 1, Netflix
Sunday April 24
Gaslitseason 1, Starzplay
Monday April 25
The Babyseason 1, in US + 24 on OCS
Raised By Wolvesseason 2, Warner TV
barryseason 3, in US + 24 on OCS
Three Busy Debrasseason 2, in US + 24 on Adult Swim
Tuesday April 26
We Own This Cityminiseries, in US + 24 on OCS
Thursday April 28
bang bang babyseason 1, Amazon Prime Video
The 7 Lives of Léa, season 1, Netflix
Dollfaceseason 2, Disney+
The Practice, seasons 1 and 2, Disney+
Friday April 29
La Unidad – Anti-Terrorist Unitseason 2, Amazon Prime Video
Grace & Frankieseason 7 – The last episodes, Netflix
Ozark, season 4, Part 2, Netflix
Shining Girls, season 1, Apple TV+