Witnesses (TV series)
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| 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 first premiered in Belgium on La Une on November 22, 2014.[1] The series, set in the small coastal town of Le Tréport in northern France, follows detectives Sandra Winckler (Marie Dompnier) and Justin (Jan Hammenecker). In the first series, they investigate when bodies of murder victims are unearthed and left for discovery; and former chief-of-police Paul Maisonneuve (Thierry Lhermitte), is implicated. This series was later broadcast in France on France 2 from March 8, 2015, and from May 1, 2015, Netflix began streaming a subtitled version in the United States.[2] Channel 4 broadcast the series in the United Kingdom from July 22, 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 March 15, 2017.[4] The series once again follows Sandra and Justin as they find themselves on the trail of a serial killer, whose modus operandi is to murder all of the former lovers of his kidnap victims. Audrey Fleurot and Judith Henry joined the cast for this series. In the UK, the series switched broadcasters, with BBC Four picking up the series, with broadcast set for November 25, 2017. In the UK, this series is subtitled A Frozen Death.[5]
Cast
- Marie Dompnier as Sandra Winckler
- Jan Hammenecker as Justin
- Alexandre Carrière as Fred
- Florence Bolufer as Melanie
Series 1
- 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
- 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 Antione Barrier
- Dominique Bettenfeld as Martin Souriau
Episodes
Series 1 (2015)
| 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)
| 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
- ^ "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" (in French). NordicNoirandbeyond.fr. Retrieved 10 Mar 2016.
- ^ https://crimefictionlover.com/2017/11/witnesses-season-2-coming-to-bbc-four/
- ^ http://www.barb.co.uk/viewing-data/weekly-top-10/