M6

M6
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**M6**, also known as **Métropole Television**, is the most profitable private national French television channel and the third most-watched television network in the French-speaking world. M6 is the head channel of the M6 Group media empire that owns several TV channels, magazines, publications, movie production and media-related firms etc. It is owned by RTL Group. On 20 May 2021, it was announced that M6 Group, owners of the channel, has proposed a merger with TF1 Group, which owns TF1.

## History

M6 launched on 1 March 1987 at 11:15 am CET taking the place of TV6.

M6's current on-air brand image suggests that it tailors its service to teenagers and young-adult demographics. Its current programs lineup include:

* **French TV shows**: *Les Bleus*, *Scènes de Ménages*, *Vous les femmes*
* **French TV programs** : *Capital*, *Zone Interdite*, *Enquête Exclusive*, *Top Chef, Un dîner presque parfait, 100% Mag*, *66 Minutes*, *Recherche Appartement ou Maison*, *L'amour est dans le pré*, *Maison à vendre*, *On ne choisit pas ses voisins*, *Belle toute nue*, *Nouveau Look pour une nouvelle vie*, *Hits Machines*, *M6 Boutique*, *LE 1945 and LE 1245 (news)*, *Top tendance*, *Le meilleur patissier de france*, *Danse avec les stars, Morning Live*, ...
* **American TV shows**: *Blue Bloods* ; *Elementary* ; *Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders* *(Esprits criminels : Unité sans frontières)* ; *Hawaii Five-0* (*Hawaii 5-0)* ; *When Calls the Heart* *(Le coeur a ses raisons)* ; *Modern Family* ; *How to Get Away with Murder* *(Murder)* ; *NCIS: New Orleans* *(NCIS: Nouvelle Orléans)* ; *New Girl* ; *Quantico* ; *Reign* *(Reign : Le Destin d'une reine)* ; *Rosewood* ; *Scorpion* ; *Good Witch* *(Un*    *soupçon de magie)* ; *Once Upon A Time* ; *NCIS* *(NCIS: enquêtes spéciales)* ; *NCIS: Los Angeles* ; *Prison Break* ; *Bones* ; *Supernatural* and *Secrets and Lies* *(Secrets and Lies : l'affaire Tom Murphy)* ; *The X-Files* *(X-Files, aux frontières du réel)* ; *24: Legacy* ; *Bull* ; *Code Black* ; *MacGyver*
* These American TV Shows were previously shown on M6: *Smallville* ;*Scrubs* ; *The Unit* *(The Unit : commando d'élite)* ;*Stargate Atlantis* ; *Nip/Tuck* ; *Californication* ; *Kyle XY* ; *Everybody Hates Chris* *(Tout le monde déteste Chris)* ;*Terra Nova* ; *Desperate Housewives* ;*Lie to Me* ;*Medium* *(Médium)* ; *My Name Is Earl* *(Earl)* ; *NUMB3RS* ; *Charmed* ; *The 4400* *(Les 4 400)* ; *Jericho* ; *The Dead Zone* *(Dead Zone)* ; *Stargate SG-1* ; *Malcolm in the Middle* *(Malcolm)* ; *Friends* ; *Alias* ; *Sex and the City* ; *Veronica Mars* ; *Buffy the Vampire Slayer* *(Buffy contre les vampires)* ; *Ally McBeal* ; *Roswell* ; *Profiler* ; *The Pretender* *(Le Caméléon)* ; *The Sentinel* ; *Sliders* *(Sliders, les mondes parallèles)* ; *Hope & Faith* *(La Star de la famille)* ; *8 Simple Rules* *(Touche pas à mes filles)* ; *My Wife and Kids* *(Ma famille d'abord)* ; *Still Standing* *(Une famille presque parfaite)* ; *Early Edition* *(Demain à la Une)* ; *Wildfire* ; *Once and Again* *(Deuxième chance)* ; *Relic Hunter* *(Sydney Fox, l'aventurière)* ; *Medical Investigation* *(NIH : alertes médicales)* ; *Tru Calling* *(Tru Calling : compte à rebours)* ; *Commander in Chief* ; *1-800-Missing* *(Missing : disparus sans laisser de trace)* ; *Dark Skies* (Dark Skies : l'impossible vérité) ; *The Inside* *(The Inside : dans la tête des tueurs)* ; *Killer Instinct* ; *Vanished* ; *John Doe* ; *LAX* ; *Jake 2.0* ; *Blind Justice* ; *Threshold* *(Threshold : premier contact)* ;*Summerland* ; *Beautiful People* ; *Young Americans* ; *Special Unit 2* ; *The Evidence* *(The Evidence : les preuves du crime)* ; *South Beach* ; *L.A. Heat* *(Los Angeles Heat)* ; *Married... with Children* *(Mariés, deux enfants)* ; *The Cosby Show* *(Cosby Show)* ; *Who's the Boss?* *(Madame est servie)* ; *The Nanny* *(Une nounou d'enfer)* ; *Little House on the Prairie* *(La Petite Maison dans la prairie)*; *The Simpsons* *(Les Simpson)* ; *Bewitched* *(Ma sorcière bien-aimée)* ; *The Wonder Years (Les annees coup de coeur)* and *Family Affair* *(Cher Oncle Bill)* .
* **American programs**: *High School Musical* ; *Camp Rock* ; *America's Got Talent* *(with its own version : La France a un incroyable talent)*, *American Idol* *(La Nouvelle Star)*, *KaBlam!* (KarToon (M6 version))
* **British TV shows**: Primeval ; Secret Diary of a Call Girl *(Journal intime d'une call girl)*.
* **British TV programs**: *Britain's Got Talent* *(with its own version : La France a un incroyable talent)*, *Pop Idol* (with its own version : Nouvelle Star), *The X-Factor* (with its own version), *Wife Swap*
* These British TV shows were previously shown on M6:*Footballers' Wives* *(Femme$ de footballeurs)* ;*Queer as Folk* ; *Totally Frank* ; *Bugs* ; and *Hex* *(Hex : la malédiction)*.
* These Canadian TV shows were shown on M6: *Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye* *(Sue Thomas, l'œil du FBI)* and *Falcon Beach*.
* Investigative journalism shows, such as *Capital*, *Zone interdite* and *Enquête Exclusive*.
* Long-lasting short programs, such as *Turbo*, *CinéSix*, and *E=M6*, as well as numerous music videos.

In 2001, M6 became the first national French television network to broadcast reality programming. Its first program of this genre was *Loft Story*, and was highly watched. The president of TF1 at the time, Étienne Mougeotte, promised that TF1 would never air any reality programming. However, several months later, TF1 signed a contract with Endemol to air such programming. Endemol is the same company that created *Loft Story* for M6.

M6 is one of the only television services in France to have science-fiction programming as part of its regular schedule. Most supernatural dramas were shown on Saturday nights in what M6 called "la Trilogie du Samedi"

## Programs (as of 2016)

### News

* Le 12:45 (national edition) and 19:45 (national edition), afternoon and evening news.
* Zone Interdite, France's most influential Newsmagazine
* 66 Minutes weekly news magazine.
* Capital, Economy-oriented newsmagazine.
* Enquête Exclusive, Investigation magazine.

### Show and reality show

* Les reines du shopping
* X Factor
* Ice show
* Nouvelle star, (French adaptation of Pop Idol) reality television (until 2011, then it moved on D8)
* L'amour est dans le pré, French adaptation of Farmer Wants a Wife
* D&CO , homestyle show.
* E=M6, science magazine.
* Top Chef, French adaptation of Top Chef
* Belle toute nue, the French equivalent of Channel 4's How to Look Good Naked.
* Turbo, motor magazine.
* Chef, la recette, culinary magazine
* Vocation Medecin, health magazine
* Hit Machine, musical show.
* M6 Kid, program for children.
* Pekin Express, French adaptation of Dutch show Peking Express.
* Off Prime
* Accès Privé, entertainment news magazine
* Un dîner presque parfait, the French adaptation of Come Dine With Me
* Nouveau look pour une nouvelle vie, fashion magazine
* On ne choisit pas ses voisins, family magazine
* La France a un incroyable talent, the French adaptation of Britain's Got Talent
* Le meilleur pâtissier de France, the French adaptation of The Great British Bake Off
* Le choix, the French adaptation of The Taste.
* Cauchemar en cuisine, the French adaptation of Kitchen Nightmares.
* Show Me Your Voice, the French adaptation of I Can See Your Voice
* Lego Masters

### Series

* 90210 Beverly Hills : Nouvelle Génération
* Blue Bloods
* Body of Proof
* Bones
* Burn Notice
* Californication
* Desperate Housewives
* Drop Dead Diva
* Earl
* En famille [fr] (French creation)
* FBI : Duo très spécial
* Glee
* Hawaii 5-0
* Journal intime d'une call girl
* Justified
* Kaamelott (French creation)
* L'Homme de la situation [fr] (French creation)
* La Méthode Claire [fr] (French creation)
* Le Transporteur (French-Canadian creation)
* Lie to Me
* Ma famille d'abord
* Ma femme, ma fille, deux bébés [fr] (French creation)
* Médium
* Modern Family
* NCIS : Enquêtes spéciales
* NCIS: Los Angeles
* New Girl
* Numb3rs
* Once Upon a Time
* Ringer
* Scènes de ménages (French creation)
* Scrubs
* Soda (French creation)
* Sons of Anarchy
* Supernatural
* Terra Nova
* The Finder
* The Glades
* The Good Wife
* un gars une fille
* Un, dos, tres
* Under the Dome
* Victoire Bonnot [fr] (French creation)
* Wes et Travis

### M6 Kid

The children block *M6 Kid* is broadcast on weekdays at mornings from 6:55am to 8:45am.

* Les aventures de Paddington
* Dora l'exploratrice
* Blaze et les Monster Machines
* Alvinnn !!! et les Chipmunks

## Past programs

* Super Nanny
* Culture Pub, a TV advertisements analysing show
* Graines de star, a talents contests show
* Loft Story (French adaptation of Big Brother), M6 and the first French reality show
* Les colocataires (Roommates) a show similar to Loft Story.
* Les Bleus (2006-2010) Police series about five rookies learning the ropes.
* Morning Live, Morning show
* Caméra Café, Comedy
* Nouvelle Star (French adaptation of American Idol)
* Êtes-vous plus fort qu'un élève de 10 ans ?, French adaptation of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?
* Rubí rebelde, Venezuelan telenovela
* The Simpsons, moved to sister channel W9
* Total Wipeout (French adaptation of Wipeout)
* Stargate SG-1 The series has been fully aired between 18 September 1998 and 8 December 2007.
* Stargate Atlantis The first two seasons aired between 15 April 2005 and 29 July 2006.
* Atomic Betty Only the first two seasons
* The Toy Castle

## References

1. ↑ Financial results of M6 2010
2. ↑ Financial rentability 2010
3. ↑ M6 has always been ranked after TF1 and before (by some measure) or after (by others) France 2
4. ↑ the M6 Group : a French media empire
5. ↑ "TF1 & M6 Propose Merger; Vungle Acquires TreSensa - ExchangeWire.com".
6. ↑ Zone interdite, one of France's most influential TV show
7. ↑ "M6 a acheté Sous le dôme". AlloCiné. Retrieved 10 July 2013.