TMC

TMC (Télé Monte-Carlo) is a French free-to-air general-entertainment television channel and one of five TF1 Group broadcast channels that began streaming live on Netflix in France from 19 June 2026 as part of a landmark distribution agreement: the first time Netflix has carried third-party live broadcast channels on its platform anywhere in the world. The Netflix-TF1 deal also includes the TF1+ on-demand library and live coverage of French rugby and national football fixtures.

TMC originated as the Monaco-based Télé Monte-Carlo service and was relaunched as a French national DTT (digital terrestrial television) channel in 2005. TF1 Group acquired TMC in 2010 and integrated it into its portfolio of secondary channels alongside TFX (formerly NT1 and then Tf1 Series Films rebranded), TF1 Séries Films, and the rolling news channel LCI. TF1 Group is majority-owned by Bouygues, one of France's largest industrial conglomerates, and operates France's most-watched commercial television network. TMC serves as a general-entertainment complement to TF1's flagship channel, programming dramas, entertainment shows, and sport for a broad French audience.

TMC's inclusion in the Netflix-TF1 distribution deal gives the channel reach into Netflix's French subscriber base alongside TF1's flagship channel. The agreement positions TMC within a structural experiment being watched across the European broadcasting industry: whether live broadcast television can sustain and attract audiences on an on-demand platform. For TF1 Group, distributing its linear channels through Netflix represents a distribution hedge as French linear television audiences fragment across streaming services; for Netflix, carrying live French television brings sports rights and a live-broadcasting capability that strengthens its case for sports rights acquisition across Europe.