6 new Belgian series in development | FWB-RTBF Series Fund

While Coyotes and his gang of young scouts have been living incredible adventures since mid-May on La Une and Auvio, and that Invisible, the first fantastic series from the Series Fund, was broadcast at the end of last year, the Wallonia-Brussels Federation and RTBF is supporting 6 new Belgian series projects in development.

2 Belgian series projects receive support for first phase of development : Black Country, on a tandem that everything opposes being united by rap, and Not Lost, on the daily life of a lawyer at the Brussels Bar.

4 projects are they supported for the second phase of their development: the fantastic thriller Talk Talk which questions our relationship to death, Syndrome, a suspense series in a drifting society, the offbeat thriller West which addresses the theme of uprooting, and #Innocents which plunges us into a hunt punctuated by moral dilemmas.

Series projects supported in phase 1
(first stage of development)

Black Country d’Étienne Bloc, Christophe Beaujean & Camille Didion
Produced by RTBF & Entre Chien et Loup | 8 x 52 ‘

To save his concert hall threatened with closure, Lykoz, a young rapper as megalomaniac as broke, leads Giulia, a former business lawyer burned by a scandal, in the creation of a totally atypical law firm. Socially unfit, Giulia quickly finds himself defending the regulars of the club, with the help of a Lykoz who, from the Palais de Justice, has never seen anything but the dungeon. Welcome to Street Tease, Charleroi’s last hip-hop resistance bastion!

Not lost from As long as Cicurel & Marie enthoven
Produced by RTBF & Beluga Tree | 8 x 52 ‘

Louise Vendel, 23, is today sworn in as a lawyer at the Brussels Bar. After five years in law and a diploma obtained with great distinction, this ceremony marks the beginning of his internship. Yet, deep inside, Louise doubts. Between mistakes and victories, will Louise find her vocation in this ultra-codified world?

Series projects supported in phase 2
(second stage of development)

Talk Talk from Romain Renard & Olivier Tollet
Produced by Hélicotronc | 6 x 52 ‘

During a scientific experiment, the dead can now communicate with the living via a terminal: the Talk Talk. David Novack, a former PJ cop haunted by the death of his wife, works in a new squad, the Talkers, tasked with giving statements to post-mortem victims. A routine investigation will explode his certainties, leading him to revisit his past and reveal his heaviest secrets.

Syndrome d’Anouchka Walewyk, Nadia Benzekri & Maxime Pistorio
Produced by Artémis Productions | 6 x 52 ‘

This murder mystery series explores, with a touch of irony, the paranoid and sociological thriller. The plot takes place in two towers facing each other, one of chic offices, the other of low-rent housing, and whose occupants undergo various phenomena of physical and mental deterioration.

West from Jeremiah Bidet & Jonathan Becker
Produced by Entre Chien et Loup | 8 episodes

Ouestèrne is a biotope, populated by a fauna of exotic characters, to say the least, whose study of manners and customs could occupy an anthropologist for a lifetime. But it’s a cop, a good cop, who will have to take care of it. A lonely cowboy, in exile, far from home. Helped in his mission by a young journalist who is not cold in the eyes and a debonair assistant, but sensitive and intelligent. Invoking the western in the deep Belgian countryside and injecting it with a dose of “black” is a desire that is difficult to resist.

#Innocents from Fred Muzzi, Hisham Insaan, David Bourgie, Martin Brossollet, Raphael Baudet & Yann vivane
Produced by Iota Production | 8 x 50 ‘

A fight in a train turns into a tragedy: a man remains on the ground in a puddle of blood. Two adolescents whom everything accuses and who everything opposes are forced to flee. In their footsteps, an intuitive cop. And the father of one of the teenagers, decided to remove his son from this gear. Behind the scenes, the victim’s wife and the policewoman’s companion go so far as to help the two fugitives. Trackers as tracked, for all will come the hour of choices: flee or knock out morality or the Penal Code, guilt or innocence?

Current series projects

Several series projects are currently in development, production or post-production. 3 Belgian series will soon arrive on our screens, in addition to Coyotes (6 X 46 ‘) currently broadcast: Baraki (20 X 26 ‘) gives us an appointment in the fall while Pandora (10 X 52 ‘) and Fils De are scheduled for 2022.

Turning side, Good people will be shot this year, just like Attraction, while the filming of season 3 ofPublic Enemy will take place in 2022. Nearly fifteen new series are also under development and could go into production in the coming months!

The FWB-RTBF Series Fund

The FWB-RTBF Fund for Belgian series launched jointly by the FWB and RTBF pools the resources of the FWB and RTBF in order to open a new space for television creation around Belgian, French-speaking, identity and popular series. The selection committee jury is made up of three representatives of the FWB and three representatives of the RTBF.

As a reminder, 4 Belgian series projects were also supported for development at the end of 2020.

Find out more about the FWB-RTBF Series Fund

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