The Netflix documentary collection Tour de France: Unchained seems to be drawing to an in depth this 12 months, with the third season – filmed on the 2024 race – set to be its final.
The streaming platform confirmed the choice to finish the collection on Thursday following earlier reviews in Le Parisien which steered the ending of the collection.
In an announcement issued to CyclingWeekly, a Netflix spokesperson confirmed that the collection will end this 12 months.
“After three seasons, we’re naturally coming to an finish of this cycle. We’re very happy with the work we have accomplished and of the general public response to the documentary collection, which has allowed us to supply a recent tackle this legendary competitors,” the assertion learn.
“Netflix France will proceed to discover new territories on this planet of sport. We have a number of thrilling tasks in growth that can allow us to inform distinctive tales in different sporting disciplines, corresponding to ‘Le bus: Les Bleus en grève’, which will likely be in regards to the French soccer workforce’s strike through the 2010 World Cup, at Knysna in South Africa.”
The collection has to this point lined each the 2022 and 2023 editions of the Tour de France, whereas season 3, which ought to be launched in June 2025, will look again finally 12 months’s Tour, received by Tadej Pogačar.
According to a report in Le Parisien on Thursday morning, the viewing figures for the newest season of the collection have been ‘judged to be common” throughout the board, and “a bit disappointing” in France.
Production prices and funds to groups and Tour organiser ASO are additionally cited as components within the choice to finish the programme.
The collection was introduced again in March 2022 with a number of prime WorldTour groups signing on to participate in filming. It minimize the 2022 and 2023 Tours in eight-episode chunks, was broadcast in 190 territories world wide and it was hoped that skilled biking can be launched to a wider viewers than ever earlier than.
However, whereas the documentary centred across the males’s race is perhaps shutting down, there could but be a ray of sunshine within the type of a collection based mostly across the Tour de France Femmes.
Le Parisien reviews that the rising profile and recognition of the ladies’s race “hasn’t escaped the eye of Netflix’s decision-makers”. The paper claims that the broadcaster could as an alternative pivot away from the boys’s race and focus as an alternative on the ladies’s peloton going ahead.
