Call My Agent!

Call My Agent! (French: Dix pour cent, lit. 'Ten Percent') is a French comedy-drama television series that premiered on France 2 on 14 October 2015. The series depicts talent agents at the fictional agency ASK (Agence Samuel Kerr) and their relationships with their actor clients, who are real, mainly French, celebrities playing themselves. It won Best Comedy Series at the 49th International Emmy Awards.^[1]

Following the success of Dix pour cent in France, Netflix bought it in 2015 and renamed it Call My Agent!^[2] It was initially planned that the television series would end after its fourth season in 2020, but in April 2021, it was announced that the show would return with a 90-minute TV film followed by a fifth season.^[3] Call My Agent! has been broadcast by ICI ARTV in Canada, TG4 in Ireland, RTS Un in Switzerland and is available worldwide on Netflix, except in India, Spain, Poland^[4] and Portugal.

Overview

The series follows four agents who jointly take control of a fictional talent agency (ASK, French: Agence Samuel Kerr) after the death of its founder and head. The agents attempt to manage film production crises arising from their stars' egos, financial and legal difficulties, and other complications, while also maintaining rivalries with one another for power and prestige. Most episodes focus on a single actor, their agent, and the production of a film in which they are starring. The series also depicts the agents' private lives, and how they are affected and often harmed by their busy and stressful professional lives.

Cast and characters

Main

• Camille Cottin as Andréa Martel, partner and agent
• Thibault de Montalembert as Mathias Barneville, partner and agent
• Grégory Montel as Gabriel Sarda, partner and agent
• Liliane Rovère as Arlette Azémar, partner and agent
• Fanny Sidney as Camille Valentini, Andréa's assistant
• Laure Calamy as Noémie Leclerc, Mathias's assistant
• Nicolas Maury as Hervé André-Jezak, Gabriel's assistant
• Stéfi Celma as Sofia Leprince, receptionist and aspiring actor
• Assaad Bouab as Hicham Janowski (seasons 2–4)

Recurring

• Ophélia Kolb as Colette Brancillon
• Isabelle Candelier as Annick Valentini
• Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu as Catherine Barneville (seasons 1–3)
• François Civil as Hippolyte Rivière (seasons 1–2)
• Jean-Yves Chatelais as François Bréhier (seasons 1–2)
• Gabrielle Forest as Hélène Kerr (seasons 1–2)
• Antoine Croset as Antoine (since season 3)
• Anne Marivin as Élise Formain, StarMédia's artistic agent (season 4)
• Stéphane Freiss as Igor de Serisy, producer (season 4)
• Sarah Suco as Justine, Igor's assistant (season 4)

Supporting

• Dominique Besnehard as Paul Granier
• Arben Bajraktaraj as Gabor Rajevski
• Robert Plagnol as Clément
• Anthony Sonigo as Augustin
• Olivia Côte as Armelle Borzek
• Igor Mendjisky as Stephane Freiss
• Marie Berto as Marie-Sophie Garnier
• Lee Delong as Miranda Jones
• Maud Amour as Mathurine
• Kader Boukhanef as Samir Chouke
• Amelie Etasse as Magali
• Nina Gary as Emma Simonet
• Julie Nicolet as Nathalie
• Alain Rimoux as Samuel Kerr
• Elise Lhomeau as Clémentine
• Éric Naggar as Duplay
• Vladimir Perrin as Jonathan Joubert
• Serge Noël as Michel Marteau
• Agnès Château as Michèle Marteau
• Marc Brunet as Mayor Caillot
• Khereddine Ennasri as Saïd
• Sarah-Megan Allouch-Mainier as Karine
• Lucille O'Flanagan-Le Cam as Linda Gérard

The actors

They appear as themselves, in most cases for a single episode.

Season 1 (2015)
Episode 1: Cécile de France
Episode 2: Line Renaud & Françoise Fabian
Episode 3: Nathalie Baye, Laura Smet, Gilles Lellouche & Zinedine Soualem
Episode 4: Audrey Fleurot
Episode 5: Julie Gayet, JoeyStarr & Zinedine Soualem
Episode 6: François Berléand

Season 2 (2017)
Episode 1: Michel Drucker, Virginie Efira, Ramzy Bedia
Episode 2: Fabrice Luchini & Christophe Lambert
Episode 3: Julien Doré, Norman Thavaud & Aymeline Valade
Episode 4: Isabelle Adjani & Julien Doré
Episode 5: Guy Marchand & Julien Doré
Episode 6: Juliette Binoche

Season 3 (2018)
Episode 1: Jean Dujardin
Episode 2: Monica Bellucci & Julien Doré
Episode 3: Gérard Lanvin, Julien Doré & Guy Marchand
Episode 4: Isabelle Huppert & Cédric Kahn
Episode 5: Béatrice Dalle
Episode 6: Jean Dujardin, Monica Bellucci, Gérard Lanvin, Audrey Fleurot, Claude Lelouch, JoeyStarr, Françoise Fabian & Line Renaud

Season 4 (2020)
Episode 1: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Mimie Mathy & Julie Gayet
Episode 2: Franck Dubosc & Nathalie Baye
Episode 3: José Garcia
Episode 4: Sandrine Kiberlain, Muriel Robin & Mimie Mathy
Episode 5: Sigourney Weaver
Episode 6: Jean Reno

Production

Director

Cédric Klapisch, Lola Doillon and Antoine Garceau directed two episodes of the first season.

Laurent Tirard directed two episodes, Antoine Garceau and Jeanne Herry directed one episode of the second season.

Writers

Dominique Besnehard, Fanny Herrero, Julien Messemackers, Michel Vereecken, Sabrina B. Karine, Anais Carpita, Quoc Dang Tran, Nicolas Mercier, Camille Chamoux, Camille de Castelnau, Cécile Ducrocq, Benjamin Dupas and Eliane Montane wrote the first season.

Producers

Dominique Besnehard, Cédric Klapisch, Michel Feller, Aurelien Larger and Harold Valentin produced the series.

Filming

The first season was filmed from November 2014 to February 2015.^[5] The second season was shot from September to December 2016.^[6]

Awards and nominations

Adaptations

• A Turkish version was released in 2020 under the name Menajerimi Ara. Gay themes were removed in that version.^[9]
• A British version was shot in 2021 and premiered on Amazon Prime in select regions in April 2022 under the title Ten Percent.^[10][11][12] In the United States, it is on AMC Networks's BBC America, Sundance Now, and AMC+.^[13][14]
• Studio Dragon and Baram Pictures produced a South Korean adaptation called Behind Every Star that aired its first season on tvN in November 2022. Cast in the lead roles are Lee Seo-jin, Kwak Sun-young, Seo Hyun-woo and Joo Hyun-young.^[15][16]
• On 26 August 2021, an Indian adaptation was announced by Netflix, titled Call My Agent: Bollywood.^[17]
• An Italian adaptation produced by Sky debuted on 20 January 2023, titled Call My Agent - Italia.^[18]
• Further adaptations include one set in the Middle East by MBC, a Filipino adaptation by HBO Go, a Malaysian one by Astro and a Polish one by TVN.^[19]
• In March 2023, Mediawan announced that the television series will be adapted in Spanish for Latin America and the United States, with Eva Longoria as producer, who will also direct the first two episodes.^[20][21]
• On 12 June 2023 Prima announced that it was producing with TV JOJ the Czech and Slovak version called Vytoč mého agenta (Vytoč môjho agenta).^[22][23] It debuted on 10 January 2024.^[24]
• An Indonesian adaptation produced by Disney+ Hotstar, titled Hubungi Agen Gue!, premiered on 29 July 2023.^[25]
• A German remake, titled Call My Agent Berlin, was released on Disney+ and on Hulu on 12 September 2025.^[26]
• A Chinese remake is in development.^[27]

Counterparts

See also

• W1A, a similar 2014 British series that satirises the management of the BBC with celebrity cameos

References

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16. ^ Park, Pan-seok (June 8, 2022). "'연예인 매니저로 살아남기' 이서진X곽선영X서현우X주현영 출연..하드코어 직장 사수기" ['Surviving as a Celebrity Manager' Starring Seo-Jin Lee, Sun-Young Kwak, Hyeon-Woo Seo, and Hyun-Young Joo... Hardcore workplace shooter] (in Korean). OSEN. Money Today Co. Ltd. Retrieved June 8, 2022.
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18. ^ Mario Manca (20 January 2023). "Call My Agent Italia è il remake italiano migliore di sempre" [Call My Agent Italia is the best Italian remake of all times] (in Italian). Vanity Fair
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27. ^ Ramachandran, Naman (November 5, 2025). "'Call My Agent!' Getting Chinese-Language Remake From Organic Media Group (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved November 5, 2025.

External links

• Call My Agent! at IMDb