Six contestants play, responding to general knowledge questions, to become the challenger of the day and face off against, at the end of the show, the champion, with the goal of taking his place, hence the title of the show.
La Rivière Espérance is a French TV series, 9 episodes of 90 minutes each, directed by Josée Dayan based on the novel by Christian Signol and shown in 1995 on France 2.
Damien and Guillaume Le Guen are brothers and do almost the same job: Damien is a gendarme and Guillaume is a policeman. Damien is called for a body found burnt in a car during a forest fire. This is the body of Baptiste Legendre. Her companion, Tiffany Roche woke up in the middle of the flames. Photographer, she captured clichés of trees on fire. She owes her life only to Târiq Amraoui, a Canadair pilot who spotted her in the middle of the fire. Tiffany does not know what she's doing there and fears having set herself on fire. Shortly after, Guillaume is in charge of an investigation into the death of a man found drowned. The two cases seem related and the two brothers must collaborate.
A young surgeon returns to her hometown to work in the local hospital. The relationship to her ex-lover, a well-known chief-surgeon, flames up again but not with happy consequences. The old friends become rivals in personal and professional fields.
When Sali and Paul Aloka, a Black couple, adopted Benjamin, their white son, they knew they were heading into unchartered territory, right until the day Benjamin announces he wants to meet his birth parents.
November 11, 1918. The world emerges from the most horrific conflict ever known. While leaders of the victorious countries design a new world order, traumatized societies struggle to find their footing. In the aftermath of war the Russian, German, Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires fall apart, currencies fluctuate wildly, and vast numbers of refugees flee misery. Before long, age-old hatreds, fears, and resentments resurface and drive the world to the brink of a new apocalypse.