Dominique Besnehard saw there the success of “the French touch” in the United States, in the lineage of the French cinema of “François Truffaut or Michel Deville” who successfully showed the Americans “a tragicomic, funny France”.
Sacred consecration for Dominique Besnehard, Angoumoisin by adoption and big boss of the FFA! Season 4 of his series “Ten Percent” was awarded Monday night at the International Emmy Awards, an American consecration for this humorous story on the agencies of film stars and which benefited from the enormous springboard Netflix.
The series, launched in 2015 on France Télévision on an idea of the former agent Dominique Besnehard, and which is triumphing today on the American platform Netflix, won the prize for best comedy by the academy at the International Emmy Awards which rewards for half a century the best television productions outside the United States.
The writers and producers of “Ten Percent”, renamed “Call my Agent” in the United States, were in New York for the occasion and the writer of the first three seasons Fanny Herrero praised the fact that the series had “Really traveled the world thanks to Netflix, so that’s a great accomplishment.”
Dominique Besnehard saw the success of ” French touch ” in the United States, in the lineage of French cinema from “François Truffaut or Michel Deville” who successfully showed Americans “A tragicomic, funny France”.
Over four seasons, the series follows the destiny of a small Parisian agency, ASK, where viewers discover the vagaries and difficulties of this shadowy profession, at the service of actors and actresses. With this particularity: in each episode, the real stars play their own role with a good dose of humor and self-mockery.
For Fanny Herrero, the series is certainly “quite French but not only”. “It’s a bit worked with an American spirit. We have sometimes compared it to comedies à la Lubitsch which are fanciful. Self-mockery is not so French ”, she explains.
For the author, the success of the series “It is the graft of an efficiency, a writing and a fabrication coming from the United States and our French obsessions and neuroses, our messy and touching side”.
On the red carpet in New York, producer Michel Feller admitted that “The broadcast on Netflix of the four seasons allowed us with a production, we will say local, to be seen in more than 200 territories”.
“Today there are almost 20 remakes that have been signed, that are in production or that have been shot “, Especially in Canada and India, he detailed, Dominique Besnehard confirming that a season 5 would see the light of day, first in the form of a feature film.
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