Métropole 6, better known as M6, is the flagship TV channel of Groupe M6, one of two main commercial free-to-air TV broadcasters in France, the other being Groupe TF1. M6, along with TF1 and flagship public channels France 2 and France 3, is one of the most popular TV channels in the country.
Groupe M6 is owned by RTL Group, a pan-European media conglomerate headquartered in Luxembourg. While the group does not use the RTL brand for its TV channels in France, using M6 instead, its two French radiostations are branded as RTL.
M6’s history dates back to 1985 when CLT announced that they were going to launch a new terrestrial television channel in France called RTL6.
M6[]
March–September 1987[]
March–June 1987[]
Designer:
Unknown
Typography:
Helvetica
Launched:
March 1, 1987
On February 28, 1987, TV6 France was closed down and replaced by a new channel called M6 on March 1. Its first logo was a 3D-animated M coloured blue with a red 6 appearing to the right. It has a similarity to the MTV logo.
June–September 1987[]
Designer:
Unknown
Typography:
None
Launched:
June 1, 1987
On June 1, M6 slightly modified its network logo by making the red "6" become more abstract with the blue "M" growing bigger thus the "Metropole Television" was removed from the logo. The previous logo was still occasionally used.
On September 1, M6 replaced its original logo in favor of a new logo, which consists of an abstract "M" colored gray with the red "6" now being placed on the top at the middle of the gray "M" by having a new set of idents and also a new set of original music scores to match this set of graphics, all composed by Philippe Eidel and Arnaud Devos.
1999–2009[]
Designer:
Unknown Based on an original design by Étienne Robial
Typography:
Custom lettering
Launched:
September 1st, 1999
2009–2020[]
Designer:
Unknown Based on an original design by Étienne Robial
Barjabulle Based on an original design by Étienne Robial
Typography:
Custom lettering On-air: Novecento Sans
Launched:
November 16th, 2015
A new graphics package and set of idents, designed by the Paris-based Barjabulle, were introduced on November 16, 2015 that retained the 3D look. Novecento Sans, an all-uppercase font, was used in on-screen typography. (It is also used by M6 Music since March 2020.)
Over a hundred idents were produced for the channel, featuring everyday objects in various situations, all ending with the jingle, Woah-oh-oh M6, in the D major chord.
Gédéon Based on an original design by Étienne Robial
Typography:
Custom lettering On-air: Grtsk Exa
Launched:
September 1, 2020
A new flat logo and a new graphics package were introduced on September 1, 2020. The logo now appears in plain white and red (or gray and red on a white background), losing the 3D effects it had over the years and instead goes for the flat variant in use since 1987.
The channel's new set of graphics were designed by Gédéon, which had rebranded their sister channel, W9, almost two years earlier, in November of 2018, and would later go on to rebrand their chidren's channel, Gulli, just three years after M6 changed its set, in September of 2023. A new branding font, Grtsk Exa, was used for the channel.
This is a list of programmes broadcast and/or produced by Antena 3. Most of the programmes below are also broadcast outside Spain through Antena 3 Internacional. No imported programming is included. Most Original Series were excluded to avoid problems with the template's length.
Original Series Currently broadcast:Amar es para siempre10 Formerly broadcast:El auténtico Rodrigo Leal12 | Velvet | Rescatando a Sara | Sin identidad | Cuéntame un cuento | Algo que celebrar | Bajo sospecha | Allí abajo | Vis a vis | Mar de plástico | Buscando el norte | La embajada | Pulsaciones | La Casa De Papel13 | El incidente | Tiempos de guerra | Apaches | Cuerpo de élite | Fariña | La catedral del mar | Presunto culpable | Matadero | 45 revoluciones | Pequeñas coincidencias | Toy Boy | Perdida | La valla | El nudo | La cocinera de Castamar | Benidorm | Mentiras | Alba14 Upcoming:Deudas15 | Señor, dame paciencia15 | Heridas | Cristo y Rey
Nordic: Denmark (Blu | Miso Film | Strong Productions) | Finland (Moskito Television | Grillifilms | Production House) | Norway (Playroom Event | Rakett TV | Monster AS | One Big Happy Family | Novemberfilm | Strix Television) | Sweden (Strix Television | Baluba)
Germany (UFA):UFA Fiction | UFA Serial Drama | UFA Show & Factual | UFA X | UFA Talent Base
