Cock-a-doodle Doo ! Season 4 of the French series Ten percent was awarded Monday, November 22 at the International Emmy Awards, an American consecration for this humorous story on the agencies of film stars. 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 authors 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.”
In an interview Monday morning with AFP, Dominica 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.
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, are in production or have been shot”, especially in Canada and India, he detailed, Dominica Besnehard confirming that a season 5 would see the light of day, first in the form of a feature film.