“Ten Percent” named Best Comedy Series at International Emmy Awards – The HuffPost

TV SERIES – An international triumph while awaiting the continuation of the adventures of Camille Valentini, Andréa Martel, Gabriel Sarda and the others … Season 4 of the French series “Ten percent”Was awarded Monday evening November 22 in New York within the framework of the International Emmy Awards. An American consecration for this humorous story about the agencies of movie stars and which has benefited internationally from the huge Netflix stepping stone.

The series, launched in 2015 on France Television on an idea of ​​the former agent Dominique besnehard, and which triumphs today on the American platform Netflix, won the prize for the best comedy by the academy of “iEmmy” 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 screenwriter of the first three seasons. Fanny herrero praised the fact that the series had “really traveled the world thanks to Netflix, so it’s a great accomplishment”.

In an interview with AFP which took place Monday morning, Dominique Besnehard saw the success of “the French touch” in the United States, in the lineage of the French cinema of “François Truffaut or Michel Deville” who showed with success to the Americans “a tragicomic, funny France”.

A “French, but not only” series

Over four seasons, the series follows the destiny of a small fictional 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 kind of 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 told AFP.

For the author, the success of the series “is the graft of an efficiency, a writing and a fabrication 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 acknowledged that “the Netflix broadcast of the four seasons has allowed us with a production, let’s say local, to be seen in more than 200 territories”. “Today there are practically 20 remakes which have been signed, which are in production or which have been shot ”, in particular 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.

Another reward for France

Note that “Dix pour cent” is not the only French production to have won an award in New York. Another award for French people is the documentary “Kubrick by Kubrick” awarded in the “artistic programming” category of the International Emmy Awards. ”Huge!”, “Incredible!” exulted in front of AFP producer Martin Laurent and director Grégory Monro.

The film, produced among others by Arte and which had been selected at the Tribeca festival in New York in 2020 (finally canceled due to the Covid) is built on “exceptional audio tape materials” from very rare interviews of American director Stanley Kubrick with French film journalist Michel Ciment.

The filmmaker, who died in 1999, was “the mysterious man who does not give himself up”, considers Martin Laurent and this documentary only on archives, designed more for cinema than for television, is intended “to humanize”, completes Gregory Monro.

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