The 20 most anticipated new European series of 2020

• The seriesphiles agenda will be busy in 2020.
• Dracula has been reviewed and corrected by the creators of Sherlock for the BBC and Netflix.
• Laura Smet dresses up for France 2, Omar Sy will play a burglar gentleman for Netflix, and Laetitia Casta a mermaid for Arte.
• The creators of Gomorra and Downton Abbey are back in service.

The 2020 seriesphiles agenda will once again be very busy. Will the legendary Bureau's fifth season live up to the previous ones? What does season 3 of Baron Noir have in store for us? How can the robbers of La Casa de Papel manage in season 4? Will the Ten Percent Neurotic Art Agent Team Have a Big Final? In the profusion of new series that will appear on the screens, here are twenty European novelties that we can't wait to discover.

Dracula , British series on Netflix on January 4

After revisiting the adventures of the most famous detectives in Sherlock , Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss decided to revamp the most legendary of vampires. With Dracula , a three-episode 90-minute miniseries available this Saturday on Netflix, the two writers deliver a jubilant reinterpretation of the epistolary novel by Bram Stoker, published in 1897.

An island , January 9 on Arte

An island is a romantic and fantastic series which revisits the myth of the mermaids. An island is hit by an unprecedented shortage of fishing and a series of suspicious deaths. These events coincide with the arrival of a mysterious stranger, Théa (Laetitia Casta), who will disrupt the life of the young Chloé (Noée Abita), in search of her origins. A modern fable on ecology served by a high-profile cast including Sergi López and Alba Gaïa Bellugi ( 3 X Manon ) and the inspirational production of Julien Trousselier ( Crime Time ). A series already crowned best French series at Séries Mania 2019.

Quiz , soon on the British channel ITV

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Quiz , a series created for the British channel ITV and the American AMC, will return to the story of the British couple Charles and Diana Ingram, accused of cheating to obtain the million books from Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? , the original format of the Who Wants to Be Millions? Adapted from the eponymous play, this miniseries, written by James Graham ( Brexit ), is produced by Stephen Frears ( A Very English Scandal ). In the casting, Estate star Matthew Macfadyen and Emmy-nominated Fleabag escapee Sian Clifford will play the hero couple, while Michael Sheen ( Good Omens ) will host the game show.

La Garçonne , soon on France 2

A dive into the Roaring Twenties expected in 2020. La Garçonne follows the adventures of Louise Kerlac, embodied by Laura Smet, a woman who cross-dresses and takes on the identity of her brother to join the criminal police in Paris in the midst of wars. For this historic mini-series, the daughter of Johnny Hallyday filmed under the camera of the Franco-American director Paolo Barzman ( Sydney Fox, the adventurer, Léa Parker ). The actress gave the reply to Tom Hygreck ( Cassandre, 24 Jours, the truth about the Ilan Halimi affair ) and Grégory Fitoussi.

Arsène Lupine , soon on Netflix

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Omar Sy will play the famous gentleman burglar Arsène Lupine in a series freely adapted from the work of Maurice Leblanc. The actor will be surrounded by other big names in French cinema such as Nicole Garcia, Ludivine Sagnier and Hervé Pierre, member of the Comédie française. Clotilde Hesme (who has already crossed paths with the actor in Chocolat) , Shirine Boutella ( Papicha ) Soufiane Guerrab ( La Vie scolaire ) and Antoine Gouy ( Budapest ) will also be in the credits. Behind the camera, the first three episodes of this series will be signed by Louis Leterrier, the director of another Netflix series, Dark Crystal: Time for Renaissance .

Validated , soon on Canal +

After the American series Atlanta, Empire, Power, here is the first French series on the world of rap. Valide follows the rise of a young rapper "validated" by a rap game star, and the rivalry that soon opposes them. A creation by director Franck Gastambide known for his films Kaïra, Pattaya and Taxi 5 .

Zero zero zero , soon on Canal +

Zero zero zero promises an obscure epic on the roads of world narco-capitalism. Behind this international co-production, Leonardo Fasoli, Stefano Bises, the writer Roberto Saviano and Stefano Sollima, also director, in short, the whole Gomorra team. On screen, an international cast with the British Andrea Riseborough ( The Death Of Stalin ), the American Dane Dehaan ( The Amazing Spiderman 2), the Irish Gabriel Byrne ( In Treatment, The Usual Suspects ) or the French Tchéky Karyo ( Les Lyonnais, Nikita ). Zero zero zero will follow in Italy the patriarch Don Damiano Calabra who orchestrates with his family a monumental delivery of more than 5,000 kg of cocaine, from South America to Europe. The title Zero zero zero refers to the classifications of Italian flours, the 00 being the finest and the purest… A quality which is reminiscent of that of the cocaine to be delivered.

H24 , soon on TF1

Anne Parillaud, Frédérique Bel, Barbara Cabrita and Florence Coste are gathered in H24. After Les Bracelets rouges , this new TF1 medical series follows the daily lives of four nurses totally dedicated to their profession within a surgical emergency service.

Possessions , soon on Canal +

Possessions, created by Shachar Magen and directed by Thomas Vincent, French filmmaker named in the best director category at the BAFTA 2019 for the Bodyguard series, follows Natalie, a young French expatriate in Israel, accused of having murdered her husband the night of her wedding and Karim, a French diplomat in charge of bringing help to nationals in difficulty, who will gradually fall under the spell of Natalie. Is Natalie a woman who is deeply lost and vulnerable, or on the contrary fearfully manipulative?

Laetitia , soon on France 3

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"I told myself that telling the life of a massacred girl at the age of 18 was a project of general interest, like a public service mission", writes the historian Ivan Jablonka in Laëtitia or the end men . It is therefore on France 3 that we will discover the adaptation of the Prix Médicis 2016 inspired by the tragic news item of the assassination of Laëtitia Perrais. It took all of Jean-Xavier de Lestrade's sensitivity to film not a news item on "the atrocious death of a young girl" but to expose a world of "ordinary violence almost invisible" with as much accuracy. This shattering miniseries of 4 episodes of 52 minutes with Alix Poisson, Sam Karmann or Kevin Azaïs, is the first French series selected at the Sundance Film Festival 2020.

Belgravia , soon on the British channel ITV

The creator of Downton Abbey returns to service and adapts his own novel, Belgravia , in series. This creation in costumes and in six episodes begins on the night of June 15 to 16, 1815, at the Duchess of Richmond's ball, which brings together the highest levels of London society. A few hours later, most of the fine officers present that evening will perish on the battlefield of Waterloo. A night that will upset the fate of Sophia Trenchard, the lovely daughter of the stewardship manager of the Duke of Wellington. Twenty-five years later, the Trenchards have settled in the new district of Belgravia, thinking of leaving these terrible events behind them.

They were ten , soon on M6

Samuel Le Bihan, Guillaume de Tonquédec, Romane Bohringer and Manon Azem are brought together in an ambitious six-part police mini-series which revisits Les Dix petits nègres by Agatha Christie. Ten characters, five women and five men, were mysteriously invited to a paradise hotel on a Caribbean island, completely cut off from the world. What do they have in common? They have all committed murder in the past. At the end, there will be only one…

A beautiful story , soon on France 2

With its fair dialogues, its impeccable casting and its careful production, this romantic drama was crowned best long series at the last Festival of Fiction TV in La Rochelle. A beautiful story, the new creation of Frédéric Krivine and Emmanuel Daucé ( A French village ) produced by Nadège Loiseau ( Le Petit Locataire ), tells of the difficulty of loving and being in a couple through the adventures of a group of friends . And it is an understatement to say that we quickly get attached to this cheerful clique formed by Sébastien Chassagne (Irresponsable ), Tiphaine Daviot ( Zone Blanche ), Ben, Louise Monot, Thierry Neuvic, Juliette Navis and Jean-Charles Clichet.

January 22nd , soon on the British channel BBC

January 22nd is a series co-produced by the BBC and HBO that will explore the issue of sexual consent in contemporary relationships in the post #MeToo era. At the helm and in the title role, Michaela Coel, the creator of the indescribable Chewing Gum . This series follows the adventures of Arabella Essiedu, a self-confident and carefree Londoner, whose life will be called into question after being administered the rape drug without her knowing it.

Patria , HBO Spain

Adaptation of the best-selling novel by the Spanish writer Fernando Aramburu published in 2016, Patria follows two families in a village in the Basque Country of the province of Guipuzcoa, bastion of independence, during the lead years of ETA, which range from Franco's death until 2011, when ETA announced "the definitive end of its activities".

Stalk , soon on France tv slash

A fiction that skilfully surfs on current paranoia around connected devices. Winner of the Best Achievement Awards for Simon Bouisson, co-creator of this 26 minutes with Victor Rodenbach and Jean-Charles Paugam, and of the young male hope for Théo Fernandez (seen in Irresponsable and Le Bazar de la Charité ) at the last Festival of La Rochelle TV fiction, Stalk, follows the entry of Lucas, alias Lux, a coding prodigy, in a prestigious school of computer engineers. Following a traumatic humiliation during hazing, this young hacker sinks into stalking to take revenge. What he hadn't expected was to be so fascinated by Alma (Carmen Kassovitz, magnetic).

Vampires , coming soon to Netflix

After Marianne and Mortel , a new French fantasy series on Netflix. César for the best female hope in Divines by Houda Benyamina in 2017, Oulaya Amamra camps in Vampires , Doïna, a young girl half-human, half-vampire, who will have to learn to live with her double nature in Paris today .

Cheyenne and Lola , soon on OCS

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Created by Virginie Brac ( Engrenages, Tropiques Bers, Unsoupçonnable ), Cheyenne and Lola , a series in eight 52-minute episodes, follows the tribulations of a duo of crazy women in the north of France. Cheyenne (Veerle Baetens), housekeeper on the ferries, recently released from prison, and Lola (Charlotte Le Bon), unscrupulous Parisian who has just moved to Hauts-de-France with her lover, are ready for anything to make room for the sun. A modern and quirky western.

UFO (S) , soon on Canal +

France, 1978. Didier Mathure, brilliant space engineer (Melvil Poupaud), sees his dream go up in smoke when his rocket explodes on takeoff. This inveterate Cartesian is then appointed head of an office responsible for investigating UFOs (S) with a team that actually gives him the impression of living on another planet. Hell ... until an extraordinary event upsets his certainties. Nicole Garcia, Géraldine Pailhas, Quentin Dolmaire and Michel Vuillermoz will also be in the credits. Created by the writers Martin Douaire ( Vernon Subutex) and Clémence Dargent ( Fais pas ci do pas ça ), UFO (s) is a comedy inspired by real events, an unidentified film object halfway between X-Files and Au Service from France .

In therapy , soon on Arte

French adaptation of the Israeli series Betipu l by Hagai Levi, whose writing of the 35 episodes was supervised by the scriptwriters David Elkaïm and Vincent Poymiro ( Thus be they ), In therapy stages the analysis cabinet of Philippe Dayan (Frédéric Pierrot) near Place de la République in Paris, in session with his patients (Mélanie Thierry, Reda Kateb, Anaïs Demoustier, Pio Marmaï, Céleste Brunnquell) then his own analyst (Carole Bouquet) in the aftermath of the attacks of November 13 2015. Partly produced by the famous duo Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache ( Untouchables, Out of the ordinary, The sense of celebration), En Thérapie will consist of 35 episodes of 25 minutes each.

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