“Astrid and Raphaëlle” launch their fifth season with fanfare. This Friday, November 8, the police duo from France 2, played by Sara Mortensen and Lola Dewaere, attracted 5.47 million viewers, or 28.7% of the public watching their TV. An excellent score for this episode with Lorie Pester and a hitman called “The Reptile” suspected of around fifty murders. The series is well ahead of the TF 1 telecrochet: “Star Academy” made 2.99 million Music lovers sing, or 16.2% audience share. Viewers who witnessed Noah's elimination at the end of the show, while Ulysses and Maureen were saved.
Last week, “Astrid and Raphaëlle”, who were joined for the occasion by Alexandra Ehle, the heroine of France 3, intrigued 5.36 million crime fiction fans. The fiction then found itself facing the “NRJ Music Awards” on TF 1, which had been watched by 3.57 million people.
As for “Star Academy”, since its launch on October 12, this twelfth season has seen its audiences fluctuate between 2.66 and 3.2 million followers. This is slightly below the opening numbers of the eleventh season last year, whose audiences ranged from 2.6 to 3.8 million people.
On M 6, “Nicky Larson and the Perfume of Cupid”, the comedy by Philippe Lacheau, made 1.45 million moviegoers laugh, or 8.1% market share. An average score for a feature film already broadcast on TV but which was a hit at the cinema in 2019 with 1.7 million admissions. France 3 is in poor form with “The great comedians of the small screen”, which entertained less than a million viewers (938,000 exactly) and 5.3% of the public.
For its part, Arte brings together 687,000 people (3.7% audience share) with the film “You will not have my hatred”, adapted from the book by Antoine Leiris on the attacks of November 13. France 5 brings together 613,000 people (3.5% market share) with “The War of the Roses”, the famous comedy directed by Danny DeVito in 1989 with Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner.