With a growing appetite for viewers for French fiction, M6, long in decline in this area, now wishes to become an important player and has accelerated significantly in recent months.
M6 will broadcast Thursday, December 6 the first episode of his series "Daddy or Mom" , a television adaptation of successful eponymous films, and a new proof of the ambition of the channel in terms of original French creation.
Dad or mom - the series
Mom or Dad - Generic M6 Series
Released at the beginning of 2015 at the cinema, this gently subversive comedy portrays a couple of divorcees, played by Marina Fois and Laurent Lafitte, who tear themselves apart to not have custody of their children.
It had conquered nearly 3 million spectators, and gave rise to a sequel at the end of 2016 that had attracted 1.2 million people.
"We made a fusion of the two films. We have drawn the substantive marrow, the tone, the DNA, the madness of the characters ... On this theme of a divorce that goes wrong. And we pushed the sliders, as in the film, " says the screenwriter Eliane Montane, who developed the project alongside the duo of the original authors of the films, Alexandre de la Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte.
Six episodes of 52 minutes
In the team of authors supervised by Eliane Montane, who was notably screenwriter for the series "Ten Percent" , the elders of "Scenes of households" and "Do not, do not do that" , the popular family comedy of France Televisions.
In the six 52-minute episodes, the characters of Florence and Vincent Leroy gave way to César and Isabelle Mendès, played by Florent Peyre ( "Raid Dingue" ) and Emilie Caen ( "What we did to the good god? " ), who manage to make their predecessors forget.
A gallery of crazy characters completes the picture: the three children they share custody, but also the brother of Caesar, step-parents, with the actress Fanny Cottençon in the role of mother-in-law, or the best friend, played by Eye Haïdara, revelation of the movie "The Meaning of the Feast" .