The series, launched in 2015 on France Télévisions and now triumphing on US platform Netflix, won Best Comedy. The music was supervised by Varda Kakon.
It's an American consecration for the French series. On Monday, November 22, season 4 of Dix pour cent won an award at the 49th International Emmy Awards. The series, launched in 2015 by France Télévisions based on an idea by former agent Dominique Besnehard, and which is now triumphing on the American platform Netflix, won the award for Best Comedy from the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, which has been rewarding the best television productions outside the USA for half a century.
The writers and producers of Dix pour cent, renamed Call My Agent on the other side of the Atlantic, were in New York for the occasion. The writer of the first three seasons, Fanny Herrero, hailed the fact that the series had "really traveled around the world thanks to Netflix". " It's a great achievement," she added.
In an interview with Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Monday morning, Mr. Besnehard saw this as the success of "the French touch" in the United States, in the tradition of the French cinema of "François Truffaut or Michel Deville", which successfully showed Americans "a tragi-comic, funny France".
Over four seasons, the series follows the destiny of a small Parisian agency, ASK, where viewers discover the ups and downs of this shadowy profession, serving actors and actresses. A special feature: in each episode, the real stars play themselves, with a healthy dose of humor and self-mockery.
For Fanny Herrero, the series is certainly "quite French, but not just that". "It's a little worked with an American spirit. We've sometimes compared it to Lubitsch-style comedies, which are whimsical. Self-mockery is not so French," she explains to AFP. For the author, the series' success "is the grafting of efficiency, writing and production from the United States onto our French obsessions and neuroses, our messy and touching side".
"The release of all four seasons on Netflix has enabled us, with a "local" production, to be seen in over 200 territories," acknowledged producer Michel Feller on the red carpet in New York.
"Today, there are almost twenty remakes that have been signed, are in production or have been filmed", notably in Canada and India, he detailed. Dominique Besnehard also confirmed that a season 5 would be produced, initially as a feature film.
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Le Monde with AFP
