Salto, MyCanal, Arte.tv, OCS, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney +, Apple TV + and even Starzplay … Plus all TV channels! Faced with this gigantic serial offering, can you no longer keep up? 20 minutes selects for you every month the best new series to be released in France and provides you with the calendar (regularly updated) of the airing or publication dates of new series or new seasons of your favorite fiction.
The must-see series in May
Ewan McGregor Returns as “Obi-Wan Kenobi”
A series highly anticipated by fans of the Star Wars saga! After The Mandalorian And Boba Fett’s Book, the 3rd series in live Star Wars is interested in one of the most emblematic characters of the intergalactic saga, Obi-Wan Kenobi. Ten years after the prelogy, Ewan McGregor finds himself Obi-Wan Kenobi the legendary role of the Jedi Knight, while Hayden Christensen wears the Darth Vader costume. Lucasfilm has entrusted the production of the series to Deborah Chow, who has signed several episodes of The Mandalorian. In the 6 episodes that make up this miniseries, broadcast on a weekly basis, with the exception of the first 2 put online on May 27 on Disney +, the former Jedi Master embarks on a crucial mission during which he will have to face allies who have now become enemies and face the wrath of the Empire. May the force be with you!
The night thriller “The Responder”
Former cop turned screenwriter like Olivier Marchal in France, Tony Schumacher spent many years on a night patrol in Liverpool before breaking down and giving up his badge. He was inspired by his personal memories of him in The Responderaired on 9 and 10 May on Canal +, to create the character of Chris Carson, an exhausted and disillusioned policeman in the midst of an existential crisis, played by a Martin Freeman (Fargo, Sherlock) at the pinnacle of his art, which connects a series of night patrols. As he tries to keep his head above water at work and in his personal life, Chris finds himself forced to accept a novice partner, Rachel. In the dangerous neighborhoods of Liverpool, they will only be able to survive the night by sticking together. Otherwise, their mutual destruction is ensured. Unveiled as a French premiere at Séries Mania, this gripping nighttime thriller, built around an orderly plot tinged with black humor, implicitly protests against an underfunded and understaffed public service.
The gothic mystery “The Essex Serpent”
After Separationworn by Adam Scott, Slow horsesworn by Gary Oldman, Roar with Nicole Kidman, Pachinko And We collapsed, Apple TV + continues to amaze with its prestigious original content! Adapted from Sarah Perry’s novel of the same name, The Essex snakewhose first two episodes go online May 13, followed by one episode a week until Friday June 10, he has the good idea to reunite Claire Danes (Homeland) and Tom Hiddleston (Loki). Set in Victorian England, she plays Cora Seaborne, a paleontology-savvy London widow who investigates a legendary snake in a fictional small village in County Essex. She plays Will Ransome, the town shepherd. They will join forces to solve the mystery around this sea creature. A gothic fiction that questions the links between science, religion and fanaticism.
The detective biopic “Clark”
A series to wait until May 27 before discovering the highly anticipated first part of the new season of Stranger things on the platform! clark, available May 5 on Netflix, starring Bill Skarsgård as Clark Olofsson, a famous Swedish bank robber in the 1970s, who originated the concept of “Stockholm syndrome”. A crazy story based on the “truth and lies” of the gangster’s autobiography.
Space-time love from “The Time Traveler’s Wife”
After the movie Out of time from 2009 worn by Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana, the novel by Audrey Niffenegger Time is nothing was adapted as a series for HBO. The time traveler’s wifewhich will be seen in US + 24 on OCS on May 16, follows the extraordinary and contrasting love story of Clare and Henry, played by Rose Leslie (Game of Thrones) and Theo James (Divergent), who suffers from chronodeficiency and the in spite of himself he finds himself transported back in time … A space-time love story revisited by Steven Moffat (Doctor Chi, Sherlock) and by the director of game of ThronesDavid Nutter.
The schedule of broadcasts in France
The torch, the adventurers of ChupacabraFollowing The flamein May on Canal +
Oussekineminiseries, on Disney + in May
Sunday 1st May
Magnum PIseason 2, Amazon Prime Video
Wistingseason 2, two episodes per night on Sundays at 8:55 pm on Polar +
Monday 2 May
The dealseason 1, two episodes per night on Mondays at 8:55 pm on Polar +
The equalizerseason 2, Monday at 9pm on Serieclub
Tuesday 3rd May
trillions, season 6, two episodes a night on Tuesdays at 9pm on Canal + Series
Wednesday 4th May
The originalsseasons 1-5, Amazon Prime Video
Three meters above the skyseason 3, Netflix
The marginalSeason 5, Netflix
SHIELD agents, season 7, Disney +
The fansseason 5, Disney +
Leone Mattei, youth brigade, seasons 8 and 9, Disney +
The promiseminiseries, Disney +
Thursday 5th May
Platonicseason 1, at 8:40 pm, OCS Max and in full on demand on OCS
The Pentaveratominiseries, Netflix
clarkminiseries, Netflix
Welcome to Edenseason 1, Netflix
Friday 6 May
Tehran, season 2, Apple TV +
The savagesseason 2, Amazon Prime Video
Bosch: Legacyseason 1, Amazon Prime Video
Girls5Evaseason 2, three episodes then one per night at US time on Fridays at 11:15 pm on Canal + Series and MyCanal
Charmed (2018), season 2, Leap
The Vampire DiariesIntegral, Jump
The sound of magicseason 1, Netflix
State of happinessseason 1, Arte.tv
Coronerseason 4, at 9pm on 13th Street
Monday 9 May
Mobile teamseason 1, Arte.tv
The Responderseason 1, three episodes on May 9th and two episodes on May 10th at 9pm on Canal + and in full on MyCanal
Better thingsseason 5, three episodes per evening on Mondays at 9pm on Canal + Séries
Parliamentseason 2, France TV Slash (and season 1 on France 5)
Replacementnew unreleased episodes, at 21:10 on TF1
Tuesday 10 May
Visitorsseason 1, Warner TV
Working mothersseason 6, Netflix
Wednesday 11 May
How I met your father, season 1, Disney +
The Everrealm tournamentseason 1, Disney +
Anna, miniseries, Disney +
brothers in crimeseason 2, Netflix
42 days of darknessseason 1, Netflix
Wild beauty, season 1, Netflix
Thursday 12 May
HPI, season 2, at 9:10 pm on TF1
Ad Vitamminiseries, fully from 12 May to 17 June on Arte.tv
Friday 13 May
The Essex snakeminiseries, the first two episodes will be available on May 13, followed by an episode every Friday, Apple TV +
Triofour episodes a night on Friday at 9pm and in full on MyCanal
That’s how I love youseason 2, somersault
Lincoln’s defenseseason 1, Netflix
Neumattseason 1, Netflix
The handyman, season 1, Netflix
Saturday 14 May
Tin starseason 1, at 8:50 pm on Altice Studio
Monday 16th May
The time traveler’s wife, season 1, at 8:40 pm on OCS City
Vampire in the garden, season 1, Netflix
Visionsseason 1, at 9:10 pm on TF1
Tuesday 17th May
The diary of the futureseason 2, Netflix
Wednesday 18 May
Vita & Beth, season 1, Disney +
Grand Hotelseason 1, Disney +
Grown-ishseason 4, Disney +
TOTSseason 2, Disney +
I promise youseason 2, Disney +
Who killed Sara?season 3, Netflix
Thursday 19th May
bang bang babyseason 1, part 2, Amazon Prime Video
disturbing showseason 3, at 11:25 pm on Paris Première
The mountain of secretsminiseries, fully on Arte.tv until 8 July
Sisterhood, season 1, at 8:50 pm on Altice Studio
Friday 20 May
Occasionallyseason 1, Apple TV +
Towards the starsseason 1, Amazon Prime Video
Queens of the mafiaseason 1, Arte.tv
Theodosiaseason 1, somersault
Love, death and robotsVolume 3, Netflix
queens of the mafia, seasons 1 and 2, Arte.tv
Wednesday 25 May
Wu-Tang: an American sagaseason 1, Disney +
Bob’s burgerseason 12, Disney +
cranberry, seasons 1 to 3, Disney +
Philadelphiaseasons 3 to 7, Disney +
Thursday May 26th
The mountain of secretsminiseries, Thursday until June 9, on Arte
Friday 27 May
Stranger thingsseason 4, volume 1, Netflix
Obi-One Kenobi, season 1, two episodes, then one episode a week on Disney +