Since its launch in 2019, Astrid and Raphael have enjoyed great success on France 2. Every week, more than 5 million viewers gather in front of their TV screens to follow the new investigations of the duo created by Sarah Mortensen and Lola Deware.
A real success story that allowed the detective series to go beyond the borders of France. Astrid et Raphaëlle is actually broadcast in no less than 92 countries, including Spain, Russia, the United Kingdom and even Norway, the country where Sarah Mortensen’s mother comes from.
Recently, it was in Japan that the fiction created by Alexandre de Seguins took root. “There it became a kind of manga, a somewhat precious encounter,Sarah Mortensen confided in C à Vous a few weeks ago about this topic. And the detective series is not ready to stop here.
Adaptation of the English language
Like HPI, whose American adaptation is due to hit television in the coming months, Astrid and Raphael is also undergoing an English rerun. The producer of the detective series, Jean-Sebastien Boulleau, said at a press conference that the rights to the remake have been sold for more than a year.After hard negotiations“.
“It is an English company that will do this for the United States.“, he added.We wanted to find respectable people who loved the show. We knew that from the moment the series became English, it would be exported worldwide, and we didn’t want the original version to be affected..”
The producer did not want to say more about this ambitious project at the moment. Which American actresses will be chosen to follow in the footsteps of Astrid and Raphael and replace Lola Dewer and Sarah Mortensen, who both put a lot of heart into creating their characters? To be continued.
In the meantime, you can find a new episode of Astrid and Raphael season 4 this Friday, December 15, from 21:10 on France 2. Episodes of this season 4, as well as previous seasons, are available in advance for free – premiere on the france.tv platform.
Source: Allocine
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