The Best TV Shows on Antenne 2

Every Antenne 2 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Peruse our comprehensive roster of Antenne 2’s top shows, encompassing over 20 distinct series as of October 2025. A broadcaster of distinction, Antenne 2 has aired more than 20 shows between 1958 and 1992. Among Antenne 2’s finest offerings are Les Cinq Dernières Minutes and Le Grand Échiquier, which debuted in 1958 and 1972, respectively.

  • Apostrophes
    Apostrophes (1975)8.5

    Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television (around 6 million regular viewers). It was broadcast on Friday nights on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" from 1975 to 1992). The hourlong show was devoted to books, authors and literature. The format varied between one-on-one interviews with a single author and open discussions between four or five authors.

  • Le Grand Échiquier
    Le Grand Échiquier (1972)8.0

  • Telecat
    Telecat (1983)7.6

    Created by French surrealist artist Roland Topor and director Henri Xhonneux, Telecat is a news show parody hosted by a tomcat named Groucha (who always had his arm in plaster) and an ostrich named Lola. It featured a variety of sentient objects and revolved around the idea that the real-life elementary particles known as gluons were “the souls of objects”.

  • Maigret
    Maigret (1991)7.6

    The pragmatic, reserved and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner and inevitably discovers the truth.

  • 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.

  • Heidi
    Heidi (1978)7.1

    Young Heidi is sent to live with her grandfather in the mountains where she discovers the liberty and the beauty of Swiss landscapes. Later when Heidi is forced to become a companion to a young invalid girl in a big town, she discovers just how much she misses the mountains, her grandfather, and her friend Peter.

  • Champs-Elysées
    Champs-Elysées (1982)6.3

  • Nestor Burma
    Nestor Burma (1991)6.1

    Cynical private detective Nestor Burma investigating murders, missing persons, kidnapping and extortion cases in every arrondissement of Paris.

  • Châteauvallon
    Châteauvallon (1985)5.3

  • Seabert
    Seabert (1985)5.0

    Seabert is an animated television series from 1985. It was created by BZZ films in Paris and originally aired in French before being translated into different languages around the world. In the United States, the show aired on HBO starting in 1987. There were 26 episodes (x 2 segments). The author is Marc Tortarolo for the theme, Philippe Marin for the design and Jacques Morel and Eric Turlot for the stories.

  • Téléthon
    Téléthon (1987)5.0

  • 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.

  • Maguy
    Maguy (1985)4.2

  • La Chance aux chansons
    La Chance aux chansons (1984)4.0

  • Love at First Sight
    Love at First Sight (1992)3.0

  • Victoires de la musique
    Victoires de la musique (1985)1.5

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

    Les Cinq Dernieres Minutes is a crime based French television series

  • Système 2
    Système 2 (1975)N/A

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

  • Matin Bonheur
    Matin Bonheur (1987)N/A