Witnesses (TV series)
| Witnesses | |
|---|---|
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| French | Les Témoins |
| Genre | Police procedural |
| Created by | Marc Herpoux Hervé Hadmar |
| Written by | Marc Herpoux Hervé Hadmar |
| Directed by | Hervé Hadmar |
| Starring | Marie Dompnier Jan Hammenecker Alexandre Carrière Florence Bolufer Thierry Lhermitte Laurent Lucas Catherine Mouchet Audrey Fleurot Judith Henry |
| Composer | Éric Demarsan |
| Country of origin | France |
| Original language | French |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 14 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Producers | Jean-Pierre Fayer Fabienne Servan-Schreiber |
| Cinematography | Jean-Max Bernard |
| Editors | Emmanuelle Labbé Diane Logan Aurique Delannoy |
| Running time | 55 minutes |
| Production company | Cinétévé |
| Original release | |
| Network | France 2 (France) La Une (Belgium) Channel 4 (UK; 2015) BBC Four (UK; 2017) |
| Release | 22 November 2014 – present |
Witnesses (French: Les Témoins) is a French police procedural television series, created by Marc Herpoux and Hervé Hadmar, that premiered in Belgium on La Une on 22 November 2014.[1] Set in the coastal town of Le Tréport in Normandy, France, police detectives Sandra Winckler (Marie Dompnier) and Justin (Jan Hammenecker) investigate when bodies of murder victims are unearthed and left for discovery in the show homes of a housing developer. Former chief-of-police, Paul Maisonneuve (Thierry Lhermitte), is implicated. This series was later broadcast in France on France 2 from 8 March 2015, and from 1 May 2015 Netflix began streaming a subtitled version in the United States.[2] Channel 4 broadcast the series in the United Kingdom from 22 July 2015.
Marie Dompnier won a Golden FIPA award for the best actress in a television series at 2015's Biarritz International Festival of Audiovisual Programming for her role as Sandra Winckler.[3] In March 2016, France 2 announced a second series was in production. This series premiered in France on 15 March 2017.[4] Sandra and Justin find themselves on the trail of a serial killer whose modus operandi is to murder all former lovers of his kidnap victims. Audrey Fleurot and Judith Henry joined the cast.[5] In the UK, this series was broadcast on BBC Four from 25 November 2017.
Cast
[edit]- Marie Dompnier as Sandra Winckler
- Jan Hammenecker as Justin
- Alexandre Carrière as Fred
- Florence Bolufer as Melanie
Series 1
[edit]- Thierry Lhermitte as Paul Maisonneuve
- Laurent Lucas as Kaz Gorbier
- Catherine Mouchet as Maxine "Max" Dubreuil
- Roxane Duran as Laura
- Mehdi Nebbou as Eric
- Frédéric Bouraly as Philippe
- Thomas Doret as Jérémie Gorbier
- Laurent Delbecque as Thomas Maisonneuve
Series 2
[edit]- Audrey Fleurot as Catherine Keemer
- Judith Henry as Maxine
- Steve Driesen as Oliver Keemer
- Yannick Choirat as Geir Jansen
- Guillaume Durieux as Eric Winckler
- Anne Benoît as Christiane Varène
- Philip Desmeules as Antoine Barrier
- Dominique Bettenfeld as Martin Souriau
Episodes
[edit]Series 1 (2015)
[edit]| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | British air date | UK viewers (million)[6] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Episode 1" | Hervé Hadmar | Hervé Hadmar & Marc Herpoux | 22 July 2015 | 1.01 |
| 2 | "Episode 2" | Hervé Hadmar | Hervé Hadmar & Marc Herpoux | 29 July 2015 | 0.75 |
| 3 | "Episode 3" | Hervé Hadmar | Hervé Hadmar & Marc Herpoux | 5 August 2015 | 0.72 |
| 4 | "Episode 4" | Hervé Hadmar | Hervé Hadmar & Marc Herpoux | 12 August 2015 | N/A |
| 5 | "Episode 5" | Hervé Hadmar | Hervé Hadmar & Marc Herpoux | 19 August 2015 | N/A |
| 6 | "Episode 6" | Hervé Hadmar | Hervé Hadmar & Marc Herpoux | 26 August 2015 | N/A |
Series 2 (2017)
[edit]| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | British air date | UK viewers (million) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Episode 1" | Hervé Hadmar | Hervé Hadmar & Marc Herpoux | 25 November 2017 | 1.20 |
| 2 | "Episode 2" | Hervé Hadmar | Hervé Hadmar & Marc Herpoux | 25 November 2017 | 0.95 |
| 3 | "Episode 3" | Hervé Hadmar | Hervé Hadmar & Marc Herpoux | 2 December 2017 | N/A |
| 4 | "Episode 4" | Hervé Hadmar | Hervé Hadmar & Marc Herpoux | 2 December 2017 | N/A |
| 5 | "Episode 5" | Hervé Hadmar | Hervé Hadmar & Marc Herpoux | 9 December 2017 | N/A |
| 6 | "Episode 6" | Hervé Hadmar | Hervé Hadmar & Marc Herpoux | 9 December 2017 | N/A |
| 7 | "Episode 7" | Hervé Hadmar | Hervé Hadmar & Marc Herpoux | 16 December 2017 | N/A |
| 8 | "Episode 8" | Hervé Hadmar | Hervé Hadmar & Marc Herpoux | 16 December 2017 | N/A |
References
[edit]- ^ "Les témoins" (in French). FranceTV.fr. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
- ^ France, Lisa Respers (30 April 2015). "New streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu in May". CNN. Retrieved 6 May 2015.
- ^ Awards, IMDb, Undated. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
- ^ "Witnesses' returns for season two". NordicNoirandbeyond.fr. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
- ^ "Witnesses season 2 coming to BBC Four | Crime Fiction Lover". November 2017.
- ^ "Weekly top 10 programmes on TV sets (July 1998 – Sept 2018) | BARB".