After four years of eclipse, the two funniest families on television return: France 2 will broadcast two new episodes of the series on December 18 Don’t do this, don’t do thatwhere the Bouleys and the Lepics go to the Moon, the channel announced on Tuesday.
These two episodes of about fifty minutes each, as well as the entire series created in 2007, will be available starting December 5 on the France Télévisions platform, france.tv.
Don’t do this, don’t do that It went off the air in 2017 after 9 seasons. He made his first comeback in late 2020 with a Christmas TV movie.
The comic spring of this successful series is the antagonism between a silly family, the Bouleys (played by Isabelle Gélinas and Bruno Salomone), and a reactionary family, the Lepics (Valérie Bonneton and Guillaume de Tonquédec).
“You hear about it all the time and much better: it gave us popularity,” Guillaume de Tonquédec told the press in early November. “Sometimes young people tell me: ‘You shook my childhood,’” laughs Bruno Salomone.
Exceptional scenario
An exceptional return, an exceptional setting: in these unreleased films, parents Lepic and Bouley are selected for a space program that aims to send ordinary people to the Moon.
This “strong idea” convinced the actors, “friends in life,” to take another tour, explained Guillaume de Tonquédec: “There had to be interest for us and for the public.”
“There are things that I have already played and that I don’t want to do again,” agreed Valérie Bonneton.
Even in space, the “DNA” of the series remains intact, according to Guillaume de Tonquédec: “We talk about everyday life, family problems, but with cosmonaut suits.”
Weightless scenes
These two episodes, in which former astronaut Jean-François Clervoy was a technical advisor, are the result of a collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA).
The scenes on the Moon were filmed outdoors at night and the actors were suspended from cables by those in weightlessness. Enough to allow the public to touch the stars?
“The brand Don’t do this… is still very strong at France Télévisions,” commented Julia Girot-Benedetti, of the public group’s French fiction department. “We haven’t necessarily found the new don’t do this…, he admitted.
Source: BFM TV
