The Best TV Shows on France 3

Every France 3 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Stay up-to-date with over 20 of France 3’s elite series, with our list refreshed for November 2025. For top-tier entertainment, France 3 delivered 30 millions d'amis and Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats in 1976 and 1984. France 3 has delivered an expansive roster of over 20 shows, dating from 1976 all the way to 2018.

  • LoliRock
    LoliRock (2014)8.8

    When Iris joins the girl group LoliRock, her life is changed forever, as a new world of music, mysteries and magical powers is revealed.

  • 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.

  • Wakfu
    Wakfu (2008)8.2

    Follow Yogu and his friends Amalia, Evangelyne, Tristepin, Ruel and Az as they try to rescue the world of Wakfu from destruction.

  • Once Upon a Time... Life
    Once Upon a Time... Life (1987)7.8

    Attention please! Are you ready for an adventurous tour through the human body? With a lot of humour, our physical appearance is being introduced from head to toe along cells and organs in an educational way. The heart, blood, nerves and kidneys, each single one is a miracle which renders life possible.

  • Murders in...
    Murders in... (2013)7.5

    Murders in... is a collection of French-Belgian police TV movies taking place each time in a different French city and region.

  • Oggy and the Cockroaches
    Oggy and the Cockroaches (1999)7.4

    Oggy, an anthropomorphic cat, would prefer to spend his days watching television and eating, but is continuously pestered by three roaches: Joey, Marky and Dee Dee. The cockroaches' slapstick mischief ranges from plundering Oggy's refrigerator to hijacking the train he just boarded. In many situations Oggy is also helped by Jack, who is more violent and short-tempered than him and is also annoyed by the cockroaches. Bob, a short-tempered bulldog, also appears in the show, and is Oggy's neighbor.

  • Grizzy & the Lemmings
    Grizzy & the Lemmings (2016)7.2

    The forest ranger's house is the only area of human civilization in the middle of untamed wilderness in a vast natural reserve in Canada. When the ranger is away, a bear named Grizzy feels that the ranger's house is his territory, given that bears sit at the top of the food chain. After making his way inside the home, Grizzy takes advantage of all the modern conveniences there, including a comfortable sofa, air conditioning and fully equipped kitchen. He's not alone, though, because a group of small creatures called lemmings also populate the ranger's house when he is away. Because Grizzy and the lemmings are not civilized enough to live together in peace, it becomes an atmosphere of madness when the two sides try to outdo each other with tricks.

  • Lucky Luke
    Lucky Luke (1984)6.6

    Lucky Luke, with his horse Double Six, travels the Old West to right wrongs and bring evildoers (usually his traditional enemies the Dalton Brothers) to justice. "The man who shoots faster than his shadow."

  • 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.

  • Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats
    Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats (1984)6.3

    Heathcliff knows he is the best cat around! Never have we seen such self-confidence topped off with a heavy dose of vanity, cunning, ruthlessness, and a mischievous love of gags. He cruises and struts down the street and watch out any person, cat, or dog who gets in his way! Although he may terrorize the neighborhood, let an outsider try to push anyone around and he is a veritable tiger of defense. On the other side of town are The Catillac Cats, which typically revolve around leader Riff-Raff's get-rich-quick schemes or searches for food.

  • Capitaine Marleau
    Capitaine Marleau (2015)6.0

    Beneath her eccentric appearance, Captain Marleau is a formidable detective. Her Sherlock Holmes deerstalker cap, her character, her unusual appearance, her humor, her unpredictable behavior--Captain Marleau is not your average gendarme. She never rushes an investigation; she becomes the investigation and relentlessly pursues the suspects.

  • Tootuff
    Tootuff (2001)5.9

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

  • Fly Tales
    Fly Tales (2000)5.3

    Short adventures of a ball shaped fly. The Fly would come into sticky situations but always somehow manage to escape. The theme featured The Fly flying through several commonplace areas such as the kitchen.

  • Téléthon
    Téléthon (1987)5.0

  • Plus belle la vie
    Plus belle la vie (2004)4.3

    The daily lives of the inhabitants of "le Mistral", an imaginary neighbourhood in the Mediterranean port city of Marseille, where wealthy families cross paths with the less than rich.

  • Vivement dimanche
    Vivement dimanche (1998)3.0

  • It's Not Rocket Science!
    It's Not Rocket Science! (1993)N/A

    C'est pas sorcier is a French educational television program that originally aired from November 5, 1994 to present.

  • Parents' instructions
    Parents' instructions (2013)N/A

    Isa and Gaby, a couple in their forties, parents of 3 children from 8 to 16 years, strive to be up to their task, while juggling their marital duties. On the agenda, disagreements, failures and shameless tricks to achieve their ends.

  • Cut
    Cut (2013)N/A