A New Tour de France TV Show Is in the Works – It Might Not Be What You Expect

There’s a new Tour de France TV show on its way to your screens, but don’t expect to see Tadej Pogačar and Mathieu van der Poel, intra-team beefs, and character assassinations.

This French production won’t be some fly-on-the-wall akin to the wildly popular Netflix show, Tour de France: Unchained.

Per reports from entertainment website Allociné, the upcoming six-parter will be a soapy Tour-adjacent drama.

“It features Nora, a formidable businesswoman who buys Deepblue, a struggling French cycling team,” writes Allociné. “But while she thinks she can impose her methods on the peloton, she soon realizes that in the Tour de France, nothing is ever guaranteed.

“Nora finds herself face to face with Mathias, a wounded former star who refuses to retire, and Ayden, a young prodigy who came out of nowhere and became the hope of an entire nation, much like Paul Seixas,” Allociné writes. “Nora then discovers that a cycling team is built on suffering, sacrifice, and trust.”

Who needs juicy clips from inside team buses or insightful interviews with Pogačar when you can get invested in a plot like that?!

The unnamed series isn’t totally divorced from the “real” Tour de France, however.

Allociné reports that the show is staged in many of the locations that hosted this year’s race and largely follows the same route.

The series is the brainchild of Louis Leterrier, best known for directing the movies Clash of the Titans, The Incredible Hulk, and the 2013 smash Now You See Me.

A different take on the Tour de France from Netflix and Movistar productions

The new show follows on from the success of Netflix’s Tour de France: Unchained and the Movistar documentary, El Día Menos Pensado.

The big-budget Netflix program ran for three seasons and was widely credited with bringing cycling to a new audience with its unique behind-the-scenes format.

The new French production might not do quite that – but it could be better than a lot of the tripe that’s put onto streaming services.

Allociné reported the show will air in 2027 on Prime Video and France Télévisions.

It’s unclear whether the show will be available globally or whether intrigued bike fans will have to get creative to sidestep any georestrictions.