The M6 Group unveiled, this Wednesday, June 26, the main programs which will punctuate its 2024-2025 year. After a season of stability among viewers over 4 years old and a slight increase among viewers under 50, M6 the French people’s favorite channel according to the Ifop barometer, is preparing a coming year under the sign of games and fiction. On the menu: exclusive shows, new series, a new couple in Domestic scenes…We tell you everything.
M6 is banking on games for this new season
This year, M6 intends to develop one of its weak points: gambling. With the return, since March, of Right price hosted by Eric Antoine, the group’s channels continue their momentum from September with old and new game shows. Already announced a few months ago, The weakest link will be back on M6 in a new version presented by Vincent Dedienne. The actor will be, for an exceptional evening, surrounded by numerous celebrities, including Florence Foresti, Camille Combal, Bernard Campan, Julie Gayet and Arnaud Ducret.
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But the fun surprise of this return to school is the return of May the best win . The game show of British origin, broadcast in France in 1991 and 1992 on The Fivehad been relaunched on France 2 from 2012 to 2015. From now on, it is M6 that viewers will test their general knowledge. Presented by Anne-Sophie Girard and Philippe Lellouche, a unique pair, the show will see several candidates compete, by generation. In each age group, a celebrity will also be there.
The Six continues its momentum with the return of The Islandhosted by explorer Loury Lag, new recruit to the channel, but also the creation of a new game called 99 to beat. New, this periodic broadcast will offer 99 tests to 100 anonymous candidates. The person who passes all the tests will win €100,000.
W9 strong in its reality series like Apprentice adventurers, The Fifty or The Power, which will all be renewed for a new season, will also broadcast a new new game. Titled Video Quiz, it will be presented by Issa Doumbia. Two teams will try to guess as many videos as possible within a time limit. The winning team will earn money for the association they represent.
6ter takes on the phenomenon of mystery packages with a brand new show: Return Master. Five pairs will have to choose and discover mystery packages, these packages abandoned or never received by their recipient which are resold blind and which are all the rage on social networks. The winning duo will be the one with the best items.
New current affairs magazines and the return of “News Secrets”
On the magazine and news side, M6 launches a new show presented by Julien Courbet. In addition to Capital, Scams! et Call for witnessesthe host will be in charge of Odo not agree. The goal: to resolve real-life conflicts on a television set. Julien Courbet will play the role of mediator and will thus try to appease his guests, who sometimes have a lot of anger to share.
We have known it since December 2023, but this 2024-2025 season will also be an opportunity to discover a new issue ofAmbition intime hosted by Karine Le Marchand. The latter will draw the portrait of four politicians: Gérald Darmanin, Jordan Bardella, Sandrine Rousseau and Fabien Roussel. At the same time, the host of Love is in the meadow is also preparing two long-format documentaries, on the new behaviors of French love and the history of immigration.
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On W9it is the return of Current secretsinvestigative magazine broadcast on the Six from 2000 to 2008. Among the first images revealed, we find in particular the actor Gérard Depardieu and the singer Kendji Girac. The chain will also launch a collection entitled USA 2024 to decipher the 2025 American election. A series of documentaries will provide the main keys to this election and analyze American society.
New documentaries, including one on the 2015 attacks
Group channels M6 will also offer their share of documentaries. Starting with the previously unpublished one on the 2015 attacks. Soberly titled 2015he will plunge back into the horror of the Bataclan and the streets of Paris, ten years after the events. “The director managed to set up discussion groups with those who experienced it closely: minister of the time, Mayor of Paris, BRI agent, victims… It’s a very beautiful message of resilience”, explained Guillaume Charles, program director. The documentary is expected to be released in January 2025.
On another note, on the program for this school year: The world by drone by Yann Arthus-Bertrand on M6, Cult series from the 1990s et 50th anniversary of Little House on the Prairie on 6terbut also the series of documentaries on pop culture, Pop Docon Goldto know everything about kpop, anime or even e-sport, as well as The France of… on Paris Premiere (which will study the evolution of society through the archive on different themes, such as cars or leisure activities).
Gold will also broadcast an exclusive documentary, Star seeds: cult talentswhich will look back on the history of the show Star Seeds through several testimonies, including those of Jean Dujardin or Bruno Salomon…
Clémentine Célarié and Alix Poisson, heroines of new unpublished fiction series
On the fiction side, we find the already announced series RAM on M6, with Clémentine Célarié in the role of a woman who discovers that she has Alzheimer’s and decides to take revenge on all the men who have hurt her. Alix Poisson will star in the series Cleanin the role of a housekeeper who gets involved in a financial scam.
The channel will also broadcast the new mini-series The Auschwitz tattooistbased on the eponymous book by Heather Morris. A true story of love in the hell of the camps of World War II.
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Many other series will be discovered or rediscovered: Irrational, Alert, Code Quantum, 911 season 7 on M6around twenty new features including Karate Sheep, Big Nate et Hello Kitty Super Style on Gold, Swimming with sharks or The Name of the Rose on Paris Premiere, Alice and Jackin the style of Normal Peopleet Temp workernew short humor fiction with Joséphine Draï on Suits you.
Live entertainment, laughter and music
M6 will also offer a good dose of laughter, with the new shows of Ahmed Sylla, Alban Ivanov and Des Bodin’s, back for an exceptional evening.
On W9, Mylène Farmer will be the back-to-school event. Her Evermore Tour, biggest stadium tour, will be broadcast exclusively. Just like the musical Molière, the urban operanever broadcast on television.
Paris Premiere will set up its cameras at the Avignon festival to cultivate its live performance offering. A play or comedy show will be broadcast each week.
And of course, these shows which continue…
Don’t worry, all the channels’ greatest classics will continue from September. M6 will thus propose the return of Top Chef (there will be noTop Chef objective This year), The Best Pastry Chef with Laëtitia Milot, second new recruit this fall who also works on fiction projects with the channel, France has an unbelievable talenttwo seasons of Beijing Express (an all stars and an anniversary season for the 20th anniversary), Traitors saison 3…
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A little something new in Scenes of households : a new couple will appear, played by Élodie Poux and Majid Berhila. From December, it is Christine and Gilbert (Fanny Cottençon and Didier Bénureau), the last couple to arrive, who will bid farewell to viewers.
On W9, the Capones will be back for an unprecedented bonus for the birth of their child; on 6terthese are The Queens of the Road which will be back in school, with, in addition, a new winter edition entitled The queens of the snow route.
Only the definitive fates of The Big Week the Saturday talk show broadcast on M6 and hosted by Ophélie Meunier, as well as Destination X, are not yet sealed. Their renewal remains pending.
Updates and new features of the M6 + platform
Finally, M6 also provided an update on its brand new streaming platform, M6 +. With nearly 22 million users connected per month and 1.6 million downloads since the launch, the group is delighted with a success that it hopes to continue.
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Some new features should therefore be noted: from July 12, M6 + can be consulted in the Apple Vision; the search engine will be improved from the start of the school year, the platform will also focus on sport, with exclusive matches from the NFL, MMA, etc. And, in February 2025, the Kings League, the French version of the Kings World Cup.
