While TF1 is broadcasting a new episode of season 3 of “HPI” this Thursday evening, a return in figures to the event series carried by Audrey Fleurot and Mehdi Nebbou.
As soon as its first episode aired on April 29, 2021, HPI immediately succeeded in winning the hearts of TF1 audiences. Carried by Audrey Fleurot and Mehdi Nebbou, this new genre detective series follows an eccentric consultant with high intellectual potential who comes to the aid of the DIPJ in Lille.
And as soon as the first episode aired, the series was a real hit, managing to bring together 9.34 million viewers in front of their television screens. Figures that the channel had not known since 2006. On the occasion of the broadcast of season 3 every Thursday evening from 9:10 p.m. on TF1, a look back at the HPI phenomenon in figures.
An American adaptation
A few weeks ago, the American channel ABC officially ordered the US remake of HPI. Renowned for the occasion High Potential, the series will resume the beginnings of HPI and will follow Morgan, a woman with an exceptional IQ mother of three children, who will form with Commander Karadec a team as improbable as it is unstoppable.
To take the place of Audrey Fleurot, the channel called on Kaitlin Olson, an actress seen in Philadelphia. Karadec’s character will be played by Daniel Sunjata (Grey’s Anatomy). Check out the full cast of the HPI remake.
A series watched in 105 countries
HPI has also been a real phenomenon all over the world. The series has thus been sold in no less than 105 countries. She traveled to Italy, Spain and Germany but also to Latin America, Japan and New Zealand. An export abroad which allowed the police series to be seen more than 280 million times. Record scores for a French series. Like what, Morgane Alvaro has not only managed to conquer the hearts of the French…
12.5 million viewers
If the first episode of HPI set a record by bringing together more than 9 million viewers, it was episode 3 of this same season that allowed the series to break all the counters. Broadcast on May 6, 2021, this opus brought together 12.4 million curious people in consolidated audience (which includes replay), the best fiction audience on French television since the end of Dolmen in July 2005.
These figures are all the more remarkable as HPI is broadcast in an era where competition is increasingly increased, especially with streaming platforms. Like what television still has a bright future ahead of it.
5 to 10 gum chewed daily
Electric blue eyeliner, fake fur, a mix of leopard prints and flashy jewelry… Morgane Alvaro did not go unnoticed at the DIPJ in Lille. In addition to this atypical look, the character played by Audrey Fleurot also spends her days chewing gum.
Not an episode passes without her blowing bubbles, much to Karadec’s despair. And according to information from TF1, the actress chews between 5 and 10 chewing gums every day on the set. A figure that surely explains why fans send him whole boxes of chewing gum at the start of filming.
Season 3 of HPI is also 88 days of shooting, 60 sets including 3 recurring ones (Morgane’s house, the police station and Karadec’s apartment), 3 directors, 13 authors and 634 employees in Haut-de-France. -France.
Find a new episode of season 3 of HPI this Thursday, June 15 from 9:10 p.m. on TF1. The episodes are already available in full on the MyTF1 Max platform.