The creators of HPI Could you imagine the high potential for international success of the series that will appear on TF1 in 2021? Since September 17 in the United States, its heroine, Morgane Alvaro (Audrey Fleurot), as superiorly perceptive as her flashy outfits do not match, has once again stood out. The first episode of her adaptation, High potential (with Kaitlin Olson), has accumulated 11.5 million views in three days of presence on the platforms.
According to the magazine VarietyIt was even the most watched show on Hulu for three days between September 22 and 25. “It’s a very good start, and we’re delighted with it.welcomes Ara Aprikian, Deputy Director General in charge of content at TF1. This is part of our desire to ensure that French content travels, and not in an anecdotal way, on marginal networks. »
“Excellent sector that is exported”
The broadcaster has done its calculations: beyond the 51.5 million French people (out of 68 million) who have seen at least one episode of HPI280 million people in the 105 countries where the series has been purchased have already seen the adventures of this cleaning lady with unparalleled detective talent. The French fiction is “a sector of excellence that is exported”Aprikian is delighted, although, with 74.5 million euros in 2023, the level of French fiction exports has fallen by 8% in one year, revealed the Union Syndicale de la Prodution Audiovisual at the last Fiction Festival, in mid-September in La Rochelle.
Since its first episode, broadcast in spring 2021, the series has attracted 12.4 million viewers (with repeats), an unprecedented figure since 2005. In 2023, the Audiovisual and Digital Communication Regulatory Authority recalled, the eight episodes of the third season were all ranked in the top 20 of the best ratings on French television.
While TF1 is currently broadcasting the end of the fourth season, the filming of the fifth is underway. Until it is scheduled, HPI Perhaps it will have won a trophy at the international Emmy Awards at the end of November, where the series is nominated in the comedy category. The last French series to win one? Ten percentbroadcast by France Télévisions in 2021.
