“Don’t do this, don’t do that” returns after 4 years of absence with two episodes on the Moon

The Bouleys and the Lepics go to the Moon in two new episodes available from December 5.

After four years of eclipse, the two funniest families on TV are returning: France 2 will broadcast two new episodes of the series on December 18 Don’t do this, don’t do thatwhere the Bouleys and the Lepics go to the Moon, the channel announced Tuesday.

These two episodes of around fifty minutes each, as well as the entire series created in 2007, will be available from December 5 on the France Télévisions platform, france.tv.

Don’t do this, don’t do that left the air in 2017 after 9 seasons. She made her first return at the end of 2020 with a Christmas TV film.

The comic spring of this successful series is the antagonism between a bobo family, the Bouleys (played by Isabelle Gélinas and Bruno Salomone), and a reactionary family, the Lepics (Valérie Bonneton and Guillaume de Tonquédec).

“We hear about it all the time and so much the better: it gave us popularity,” Guillaume de Tonquédec told the press at the beginning of November. “Sometimes young people say to me: ‘You rocked my childhood’,” laughed Bruno Salomone.

Exceptional scenario

An exceptional return, an exceptional scenario: in these unpublished films, parents Lepic and Bouley are selected for a space program which aims to send ordinary people to the Moon.

This “strong idea” convinced the actors, “friends in life”, to go back for a spin, explained Guillaume de Tonquédec: “There had to be an interest for us and the public”.

“There are things that I have already played and that I don’t want to do again,” agreed Valérie Bonneton.

Even in space, the “DNA” of the series remains intact, according to Guillaume de Tonquédec: “We talk about everyday life, family problems, but in cosmonaut outfits.”

Weightless scenes

These two episodes, for which former astronaut Jean-François Clervoy was technical consultant, are the result of a partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA).

The scenes on the Moon were shot outdoors at night and the actors were suspended from cables for those in weightlessness. Enough to allow audiences to touch the stars?

“The brand Don’t do this… is still very strong at France Télévisions”, commented Julia Girot-Benedetti, from the French fiction department of the public group. “We have not necessarily yet found the new don’t do this…, she admitted.