Call My Agent!

Call My Agent! (French: Dix pour cent, lit. 'Ten Percent') is a French comedy-drama television series that premiered on France 2 on 14 October 2015. The series depicts talent agents at the fictional agency ASK (Agence Samuel Kerr) and their relationships with their actor clients, who are real, mainly French, celebrities playing themselves. It won Best Comedy Series at the 49th International Emmy Awards.

Following the success of Dix pour cent in France, Netflix bought it in 2015 and renamed it Call My Agent! It was initially planned that the television series would end after its fourth season in 2020, but in April 2021, it was announced that the show would return with a 90-minute TV film followed by a fifth season. Call My Agent! has been broadcast by ICI ARTV in Canada, RTS Un in Switzerland and is available worldwide on Netflix, except in Spain, Poland and Portugal.

Overview

The series follows four agents who jointly take control of a fictional talent agency (ASK, French: Agence Samuel Kerr) after the death of its founder and head. The agents attempt to manage film production crises arising from their stars' egos, financial and legal difficulties, and other complications, while also maintaining rivalries with one another for power and prestige. Most episodes focus on a single actor, their agent, and the production of a film in which they are starring. The series also depicts the agents' private lives, and how they are affected and often harmed by their busy and stressful professional lives.

Cast and characters

Main

• Camille Cottin as Andréa Martel, partner and agent
• Thibault de Montalembert as Mathias Barneville, partner and agent
• Grégory Montel as Gabriel Sarda, partner and agent
• Liliane Rovère as Arlette Azémar, partner and agent
• Fanny Sidney as Camille Valentini, Andréa's assistant
• Laure Calamy as Noémie Leclerc, Mathias's assistant
• Nicolas Maury as Hervé André-Jezak, Gabriel's assistant
• Stéfi Celma as Sofia Leprince, receptionist and aspiring actor
• Assaad Bouab as Hicham Janowski (season 2–4)

Recurring

• Ophélia Kolb as Colette Brancillon
• Isabelle Candelier as Annick Valentini
• Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu as Catherine Barneville (seasons 1–3)
• François Civil as Hippolyte Rivière (seasons 1–2)
• Jean-Yves Chatelais as François Bréhier (seasons 1–2)
• Gabrielle Forest as Hélène Kerr (seasons 1–2)
• Antoine Croset as Antoine (since season 3)
• Anne Marivin as Élise Formain, StarMédia's artistic agent (season 4)
• Stéphane Freiss as Igor de Serisy, producer (season 4)
• Sarah Suco as Justine, Igor's assistant (season 4)

Supporting

The actors

They appear as themselves, in most cases for a single episode.

Season 1 (2015)
Episode 1: Cécile de France
Episode 2: Line Renaud & Françoise Fabian
Episode 3: Nathalie Baye, Laura Smet, Gilles Lellouche & Zinedine Soualem
Episode 4: Audrey Fleurot
Episode 5: Julie Gayet, JoeyStarr & Zinedine Soualem
Episode 6: François Berléand

Season 2 (2017)
Episode 1: Michel Drucker, Virginie Efira, Ramzy Bedia
Episode 2: Fabrice Luchini & Christophe Lambert
Episode 3: Julien Doré, Norman Thavaud & Aymeline Valade
Episode 4: Isabelle Adjani & Julien Doré
Episode 5: Guy Marchand
Episode 6: Juliette Binoche

Season 3 (2018)
Episode 1: Jean Dujardin
Episode 2: Monica Bellucci
Episode 3: Gérard Lanvin & Guy Marchand
Episode 4: Isabelle Huppert
Episode 5: Béatrice Dalle
Episode 6: Jean Dujardin, Monica Bellucci, Gérard Lanvin, Audrey Fleurot, Claude Lelouch, JoeyStarr, Françoise Fabian & Line Renaud

Season 4 (2020)
Episode 1: Charlotte Gainsbourg & Mimie Mathy
Episode 2: Franck Dubosc
Episode 3: José Garcia
Episode 4: Sandrine Kiberlain
Episode 5: Sigourney Weaver
Episode 6: Jean Reno

Episodes

Season 1 (2015)

Season 2 (2017)

Season 3 (2018)

Season 4 (2020)

Production

Director

Cédric Klapisch, Lola Doillon and Antoine Garceau directed two episodes of the first season.

Laurent Tirard directed two episodes, Antoine Garceau and Jeanne Herry directed one episode of the second season.

Writers

Dominique Besnehard, Fanny Herrero, Julien Messemackers, Michel Vereecken, Sabrina B. Karine, Anais Carpita, Quoc Dang Tran, Nicolas Mercier, Camille Chamoux, Camille de Castelnau, Cécile Ducrocq, Benjamin Dupas and Eliane Montane wrote the first season.

Producers

Dominique Besnehard, Cédric Klapisch, Michel Feller, Aurelien Larger and Harold Valentin produced the series.

Filming

The first season was filmed from November 2014 to February 2015. The second season was shot from September to December 2016.

Awards and nominations

Adaptations

• A Turkish version was released in 2020 under the name Menajerimi Ara. Gay themes were removed in that version.
• A British version was shot in 2021 and premiered on Amazon Prime in select regions in April 2022 under the title Ten Percent. In the United States, it is on AMC Networks's BBC America, Sundance Now, and AMC+.
• Studio Dragon and Baram Pictures are producing a South Korean adaptation called Behind Every Star that aired its first season on tvN in November 2022. Cast in the lead roles are Lee Seo-jin, Kwak Sun-young, Seo Hyun-woo and Joo Hyun-young.
• On 26 August 2021, an Indian adaptation was announced by Netflix, titled Call My Agent: Bollywood.
• An Italian adaptation produced by Sky debuted on 20 January 2023, titled Call My Agent - Italia.
• Further adaptations include one set in the Middle East by MBC, a Filipino adaptation by HBO Go, a Malaysian one by Astro and a Polish one by TVN.
• In March 2023, Mediawan announced that the television series will be adapted in Spanish for Latin America and the United States, with Eva Longoria as producer, who will also direct the first two episodes.
• On 12 June 2023 Prima announced that it produces with TV JOJ Czech and Slovak version called Vytoč mého agenta (Vytoč môjho agenta). It debuted on 10 January 2024.
• An Indonesian adaptation produced by Disney+ Hotstar, titled Hubungi Agen Gue! is set to premiere on 29 July 2023.

Counterparts

See also

• W1A, a similar 2014 British series that satirises the management of the BBC with celebrity cameos

References

External links

• Call My Agent! on Netflix
• Call My Agent! at IMDb
• Call My Agent! at Rotten Tomatoes