The Best TV Shows on France 2

Every France 2 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

With its programming history stretching from 1958 to 2023, France 2 offers an impressive lineup of over 20 shows. For top-tier entertainment, France 2 delivered Les Cinq Dernières Minutes and Le Grand Échiquier in 1958 and 1972. Peruse our comprehensive roster of France 2’s top shows, encompassing over 20 distinct series as of February 2026.

  • Alex Hugo
    Alex Hugo (2015)8.7

    Fed-up with his violent daily life, former Marseilles police officer Alex Hugo leaves the city and the violence he can no longer bear.

  • Minuscule: The Private Life of Insects
    Minuscule: The Private Life of Insects (2006)8.1

    Short video animations giving a bird's eye view of insects' day to day existence, distorted through a burlesque, yet poetic lens.

  • Le Grand Échiquier
    Le Grand Échiquier (1972)8.0

  • Astrid et Raphaëlle
    Astrid et Raphaëlle (2020)8.0

    Astrid Nielsen works in the library of the judicial police. She has Asperger's syndrome. With an incredible memory, she excels at analyzing files of ongoing investigations. The district commander decides to use it to the fullest, entrusting her with very complex investigations which have remained unsolved to date.

  • Call My Agent!
    Call My Agent! (2015)7.7

    At a top Paris talent firm, agents scramble to keep their star clients happy—and their business afloat—after an unexpected crisis.

  • The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
    The Little Murders of Agatha Christie (2009)7.4

    French adaptations of the stories by Agatha Christie.

  • Fort Boyard
    Fort Boyard (1990)7.3

    A game show set and filmed on the real Fort Boyard in France. The contestants have to complete in physical and endurance challenges to win prize money.

  • Fan School
    Fan School (1977)7.2

    Host Jacques Martin invites different talented children from various backgrounds to showcase their beautiful voices. The participants entertain and wow the audience with their lovely performances.

  • Candice Renoir
    Candice Renoir (2013)7.1

    Candice Renoir had put her career on standby for 10 years. When she returns from Singapore to resume service in a port town in the south of France, she feels a bit “rusty”. Despite the obvious defiance of her unit and a cynical superior who doesn’t make her job any easier, she is determined to turn her so-called weaknesses into strengths, solving the most complex cases with her common sense, her acute observation and her practical nature seasoned by a busy daily routine. Only Candice can catch a killer because she knows the chemical composition of a window-cleaning product or determine the hour of a murder from the cooking-time of kebabs… Candice is only naive on the outside, and nobody can resist her!

  • A Guy, a Girl
    A Guy, a Girl (1999)6.6

    This series tells the daily life of a couple : Jean and Alexandra. From easy cases: in bed, in the living room, in the kitchen, by phone... to rare ones: lost on an island or in the country, in Hong Kong, during a wedding... Jean and Alexandra's life is not exactly a long, quiet river.

  • Chronicles of the Sun
    Chronicles of the Sun (2018)6.6

    Claire is surprised when she gets arrested for the murder of her childhood friend after she returns to Montpellier.

  • Champs-Elysées
    Champs-Elysées (1982)6.3

  • Infrarouge
    Infrarouge (2006)6.0

    French current affair show

  • 30 millions d'amis
    30 millions d'amis (1976)5.8

  • Télématin
    Télématin (1985)4.5

    Télématin is a French breakfast television news show, broadcast on France 2 since January 7, 1985. It is broadcast in Metropolitan France weekdays from 6:30 to 9:00 am CET. TV5 broadcast the show in Canada in its entirety until September 2011: it now shows a 90 minute version between 6:30 and 8:00 am Eastern Time, when the French original version is now 2h30 long. Télématin is hosted by William Leymergie. The show is daily seen by around 40% of the French morning audience, a very high percentage for French TV. In Metropolitan France, the newscasts are presented at 7:00, 7:30 and 8:00, with newsflashes at 6:30 and 8:50, and two press reviews at 7:20 and 8:30. The 6:30, 7:30 and 8:50 newscasts are usually presented by a female reader and the hourly newscasts by a male. The usual readers are Nathanaël de Rinquesen, Sophie Le Saint, Julien Benedetto, Sophie Gastrain, Patrice Romedenne and Frédéric Vion.

  • Vivement dimanche prochain
    Vivement dimanche prochain (1998)3.4

  • Vivement dimanche
    Vivement dimanche (1998)3.0

  • Beau geste
    Beau geste (2023)1.0

  • Les Cinq Dernières Minutes
    Les Cinq Dernières Minutes (1958)N/A

    Les Cinq Dernieres Minutes is a crime based French television series

  • Le monde est à vous
    Le monde est à vous (1987)N/A