Plaisir du théâtre

Chefs

September 2025 •French

Every year Le Chef (English: The Chef), owner of the restaurant Le Paris, and a figure in French cuisine incorporates a young offender on probation into his team. Romain, just released from prison, arrives in this new world where gastronomy and excellence mix. After a difficult integration, he shows a real talent for cooking and climbs the ranks.

French Fields

September 2025 •English

French Fields is a British situation comedy. It ran for 19 episodes from 5 September 1989 to 8 October 1991. It was written by John T. Chapman and Ian Davidson and was produced by Thames Television for ITV. The series starred Anton Rodgers and Julia McKenzie as husband and wife William and Hester Fields and followed the series Fresh Fields, which ran from 7 March 1984 to 23 October 1986. At the end of the last series of Fresh Fields, William accepted a position with a French company. French Fields follows Hester and William after they make the move to Calais. Other regular cast included their French real estate agent Chantal, who was also the Fields' neighbour to the left. On the right, were the horrible and snobbish English couple the Trendles. Hester and William also coped with Madame Remoleux, an unintelligible and ancient French woman who lived in and cared for the estate — called Les Hirondelles — where they all lived. Also, popping in on a regular basis, were local farmer and mayor Monsieur Dax and his daughter Marie-Christine, to whom Hester did her best to teach English. Nicholas Courtney also appeared frequently as the Marquis.

Cafe Americain

September 2025 •English

Café Americain is an American sitcom starring Valerie Bertinelli which aired on NBC during the 1993–1994 television season from September 18, 1993 to February 8, 1994 with two leftover episodes shown on May 28, 1994. It was filmed at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California.

Nuestro teatro

September 2025 •Spanish

'Allo 'Allo!

September 2025 •English

The misadventures of hapless cafe owner René Artois and his escapades with the Resistance in occupied France.

Softly from Paris

September 2025 •French

An anthology of erotic stories by famous writers like Guy de Maupassant, Nicolas Edme Restif de La Bretonne, Marquis de Sade, Giovanni Boccaccio, Marquis de Foudras, Daniel Defoe, Anton Tchekov, Jin Ping Mei, and Aristophanes.

Bref

September 2025 •French

A lost thirty-something shares his struggles, from failed relationships to boring jobs and pointless nights out. Stuck in his routine at first, he slowly evolves, searching for meaning in his life. In short, he's just trying to live.

Marianne

September 2025 •French

When a novelist realizes her terrifying stories are coming true, she returns to her hometown to face the demons from her past that inspire her writing.

Let Them Eat Cake

September 2025 •English

Let Them Eat Cake is a British sitcom starring Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders set in France, 1782, just seven years before the French Revolution. It is one of the few programmes in which French and Saunders have appeared which they did not create themselves.

Cimrman sobě

September 2025 •Czech

The Cosmopolitans

September 2025 •English

A dramatic comedy about a group of young American expats in Paris searching for love and friendship and an ocean of distance from their past.

Santos Dumont

September 2025 •Portuguese

The story of the man who embodied the great transformations of the turn of the century, acclaimed almost worldwide as the first man to fly a plane - the 14 Bis. Set in France and Brazil in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the production follows the aviator's trajectory, from his childhood at his family's coffee plantations in the interior of Minas Gerais, to the sophisticated Paris lounges and air clubs.

Chateau Meiland

September 2025 •Dutch

Chateau Meiland has been on Dutch television since 2019. The Meiland family's adventure started when they bought a castle in France where they ran a bed and breakfast. The family has now been living in the Netherlands for a number of years, where the recordings of the reality series continue unabated.

A French Village

September 2025 •French

The stories of the people of Villeneuve, a fictional subprefecture, in the Jura, in German–occupied France during the Second World War.

Bon Voyage

September 2025 •English

When Neil and Elizabeth take their children on a camping holiday to France, they find themselves continually bumping into over-friendly couple Simon and Linda. Elizabeth finds the couple weird, but when they begin to spot Simon and Linda's campervan in their rear view mirror, and a young boy goes missing from the campsite, they realise the couple are more than creepy....they're dangerous.

Clochemerle

September 2025 •English

Clochemerle is a 1972 British–West German television comedy based on Gabriel Chevallier's 1934 novel of the same name, with Ray Galton and Alan Simpson adapting the text. Filmed on location in France, it starred Roy Dotrice, Wendy Hiller, Cyril Cusack, Kenneth Griffith, and Cyd Hayman, with narration by Peter Ustinov. In the small French village of Clochemerle, Mayor Barthelemey Piechut plans for the erection of a 'pissoir' (gentlemen's public convenience) in the town square. Unfortunately, the rest of the rural inhabitants aren't as impressed.

La Commune (Paris, 1871)

September 2025 •French

In this war drama blurring the lines between documentary and fiction, the working class and the bourgeoisie of 19th century Paris are interviewed and covered on television, before and during a tragic workers' class revolt.

Witnesses

September 2025 •French

Witnesses (French: Les Témoins) is a French police procedural television series, created by Marc Herpoux and Hervé Hadmar. In the first season, police detectives Sandra Winckler and Justin investigate when bodies of murder victims are unearthed and left for discovery in the show homes of a housing developer. Former chief-of-police, Paul Maisonneuve, is implicated. In the second season, Sandra and Justin find themselves on the trail of a serial killer whose modus operandi is to murder all former lovers of his kidnap victims.

Un curé de choc

September 2025 •French

Play It By Ear

September 2025 •English

A musical improv show where players craft an original musical out of thin air and silly prompts.