Les Revenants


Deutschland 83 is UK’s highest-rated foreign drama

German drama Deutschland 83 has become the UK’s highest-rated foreign-language drama of all time. Launching on Channel 4 the series took 1.49 million viewers, consolidated to 2.5 million. This puts it ahead of French drama Les Revenants (The Returned), also on Channel 4, which previously held the record with 2.2 million. Deutschland 83 is also […]

Atlantique poaches Haut et Court’s Desmarais

France’s Atlantique Productions has poached Jimmy Desmarais from The Last Panthers coproducer Haut et Court to become its co-managing director. Desmarais will work alongside existing MD Olivier Bibas at the scripted producer, which is part of the Lagardère Studios group and best known for shows such has Borgia and Transporter. Lagardère Studios sees Desmarais’ hire […]

Netflix nets exclusive global rights to The Returned remake

Netflix has acquired exclusive global rights to The Returned, the US remake of French drama Les Revenants, from FremantleMedia International. The deal marks the first time the US-listed streaming service will have premiere rights an acquired drama on its services around the world. The series has been commissioned by US cable net A&E, which will […]

Channel 4 buys French drama Witnesses

Channel 4 has acquired buzzy French drama Witnesses (Les Temoins). The UK commercial broadcaster picked up French-language drama Les Revenants last year and another foreign-language series, Norwegian drama Mammon, earlier this year. Mammon’s lacklustre ratings cast a question over whether the Channel 4 would buy more foreign-language series, but it has now picked up six-part […]

Channel 4 buys Norwegian political drama

UK broadcaster Channel 4 has acquired Mammon, a political drama from Norwegian pubcaster NRK. The deal comes after the British channel had success with another foreign-language series, French drama Les Revenants, last year. Nordic World has closed further deals for the 6x60mins Mammon in the Nordic territories, as well as Beta Films picking up rights […]

News brief: Paisner re-elected before International Emmys

Bruce Paisner has been re-elected president and CEO of the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, just hours before the likes of J.J. Abrams were celebrated at the International Emmys. Paisner has been at the top of the academy, which organises the International Emmy Awards Gala, for the sixth time. His re-appointment came hours […]

A&E puts Returned remake into development

US cable channel A&E has put a US version of French drama The Returned (Les Revenants) into development with FremantleMedia North America. The original series will be a coproduction between A+E Studios and FMNA in association with France’s Haut et Court TV and will rework the French series from Fabrice Gobert that was also produced […]

France’s new wave

With shortform content, event TV and international copros, a new wave of French producers are keeping TV as a core business but experimenting with digital and new collaborative models, reports Pascale Paoli-Lebailly. Last year, the French TV market found a new Eldorado. Besides scripted reality concepts, which flourished on both private and public TV networks, […]

FremantleMedia making English version of French zombie series

FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) is making an English-language version of French zombie series Les Revenants (They Came Back). The English version will be made by AbbottVision, State of Play and Shameless creator Paul Abbott’s production company, with which FME has a first-look deal. They Came Back was originally developed as a movie before being adapted for […]