SERIELAND ENTRETIEN - "HPI", the new police series from TF1, recorded very strong audiences. She tells the adventures of a cleaning lady with an extraordinary IQ who joins a police team. Alice Chegaray-Breugnot co-signs the screenplay. And this is not his first detective series. She also worked on the fictions "Alice Nevers" and "La Mante". What are his sources of inspiration? How does she experience the success of "HPI"? She gives herself up to Eva Roque's microphone. 

HPI

, the new TF1 series is a real phenomenon! It breaks audience records. It drew more than 9.3 million viewers when it launched on April 29, or more than 40% of the audience. This is the best recorded audience for the first episode of a French series since 2010 with the fiction

Clem

The reasons for the success are surely to be found in the fictional scenario.

HPI

tells the story of Morgane Alvaro (played by Audrey Fleurot), a housekeeper and mother of a family with high intellectual potential.

His IQ reached 160!

One day, her daily life is completely turned upside down when the police, interested in her intellectual capacities, offers her a job as a consultant to solve a murder case.

She accepts.

But Morgane does not have her tongue in her pocket.

Above all, she hates the cops… Through this narration, the series combines thriller and comedy.

In a previous episode of SERIELAND, Bruno Sanches, who plays one of the police officers of his team, confided the underside of the filming of HPI.

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Behind this funny scenario, we find a trio: Nicolas Jean, Stéphane Carré and Alice Chegaray-Breugnot. The latter is also artistic director of the fiction Before

HPI

, she worked on other scenarios of detective series. In 2017, she co-wrote the terrifying thriller

La Mante

. This fiction with Carole Bouquet and Fred Testot tells the investigation of a commissioner into a series of murders signed "La Mante", a nickname given to a serial killer imprisoned for 25 years ... Alice Chegaray-Breugnot also worked on the scenario of

Alice Nevers

, the fiction in 18 seasons of TF1 which stages the investigations carried out by an examining magistrate. 

In SERIELAND, the podcast of Europe 1 Studio by those who love series and make them, the screenwriter confides in Eva Roque's microphone.

How was Morgane Alvaro's character born?

Season 2 is already being written, does the success of the first episodes influence his way of working?

Will the team of writers be the same?

In this great interview, Alice Chegaray-Breugnot reveals the writing secrets of

HPI

The SERIELAND team

 Author and presentation: Eva Roque

Director: Christophe Pierrot

Editorial project manager: Timothée Magot 

Distribution and editing: Clémence Olivier with Salomé Journo

Preparation: Magali Butault