Alex Hugo La chute d’Icare filming locations, Digi Mart USA News: The new Alex Hugo episode, La chute d’Icare, airs Tuesday, November 10, 2026, at 9:10 p.m. on France 3.
The episode returns the detective series to the Hautes-Alpes after the Isère setting of La vallée des oubliées.
According to the source, the two November episodes have distinct geographies. La chute d’Icare, directed by Sylvie Ayme, belongs to the 2025 production shot in the Hautes-Alpes alongside Le tombeau du poète.
The Briançonnais area and Gap serve as the reference points for this grouped shoot, while the sets for La vallée des oubliées lie partly in the Oisans and the Romanche valley in Isère.
The source notes that the shoot directed by Sylvie Ayme began in early June 2025 and ended in Gap in early August 2025. Locations cited for the productions include Névache, L’Argentière, Puy-Saint-Vincent and the Granon sector.
The source cautions that this list describes the movements of the production across both episodes and is not a scene-by-scene record, so it cannot confirm that a specific sequence of the new episode was filmed in each town.
One location is documented by an official publication: the Hôtel du Département in Gap. A Hautes-Alpes magazine issue from October to December 2025 says the crews settled there on August 1 to complete filming for the two episodes then in production.
The building was used to represent a Marseille courthouse, and the source states that its scenes cannot be precisely divided between Le tombeau du poète and La chute d’Icare.
The zipline scene that launches the investigation is attributable to La chute d’Icare. According to the official France Télévisions synopsis, Justine sets off across a canyon on a zipline, then falls when something gives way.
However, neither the release nor the departmental magazine names the installation, so the exact site of the zipline remains to be confirmed. Other stunts mentioned for the two episodes, including a rescue from the Durance river, cannot all be linked to this new episode.
The episode is available on france.tv from October 29. The cast includes Samuel Le Bihan as Alex Hugo, with Mikaël Fitoussi as Renart, Fabien Baïardi as Tony Leblanc and Olivia Couget as Justine Combrais.
Jean-Luc Estèbe wrote the episode.
