The Best TV Shows on France 2

Every France 2 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Some of the best tv shows from France 2 include Les Cinq Dernières Minutes and Le Grand Échiquier, airing in 1958 and 1972 respectively. Stay up-to-date with over 20 of France 2’s elite series, with our list refreshed for July 2025. Boasting a rich catalog, France 2 features more than 20 shows, with broadcasting dates ranging from 1958 to 2023.

  • 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

  • Foudre
    Foudre (2007)8.0

  • Fort Boyard
    Fort Boyard (1990)7.4

    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.

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

    French adaptations of the stories by Agatha Christie.

  • Captain Sharif
    Captain Sharif (2013)7.4

    An unconventional police captain with questionable methods learns to work with his new partner, a by-the-book criminal investigator.

  • Fan School
    Fan School (1977)7.3

    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)7.2

    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!

  • The Art of Crime
    The Art of Crime (2017)6.5

    Fired for insubordination, PJ Antoine Verlay, good cop but a blood strand and having difficulty working as a team, is attached to the OCBC (Central Office for the fight against Traffic in Cultural Goods) thanks to the intervention of the commander Pardo, his friend who becomes, therefore, his new superior. A clever investigator, but a stranger to everything related to culture, Antoine will have to work with Florence Chassagne, renowned art historian, who lives, speaks and breathes culture, to the point that - fruit of her great imagination - it happens to her in the midst of daydreams, to see and talk to the great artists who have disappeared as if they were familiar to her.

  • Champs-Elysées
    Champs-Elysées (1982)6.3

  • P.J.
    P.J. (1997)5.7

  • Infrarouge
    Infrarouge (2006)5.5

    French current affair show

  • It starts today
    It starts today (2017)5.2

    Faustine Bollaert receives different guests who wish to share their story on a specific theme, whether it is a sentimental, family, friendly or professional environment. They evoke their experience and enrich it with exchanges with other witnesses. Different professionals regularly intervene in the program to give advice.

  • Vivement dimanche prochain
    Vivement dimanche prochain (1998)3.4

  • Vivement dimanche
    Vivement dimanche (1998)3.0

  • 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

  • Vestiaires
    Vestiaires (2011)N/A

  • Amanda
    Amanda (2016)N/A

    The program combines comedy, celebrity, musical guests, and human-interest stories.

  • Beau geste
    Beau geste (2023)N/A