Federation event series Bardot keeps on seducing audiences as well as French and international buyers with great success on Netflix and major sales in many territories.

Focused on the youth years of French star Brigitte Bardot, the series, created and directed by Danièle Thompson and Christopher Thompson is produced by Pascal Breton and Judith Rochelois for France Televisions and Mediaset. Rising actress Julia de Nunez dazzled the world in the role of Brigitte Bardot.

The series was launched on Netflix on August 23. Less than one week into its run on Netflix France, Benelux, Germany and Switzerland et Germany, Bardot has shot up to Netflix top 10 in most of these countries: 3 most viewed series in France and Belgium, 4 in Luxembourg, 6 in Switzerland and The Netherlands.

This new success follows the impressive performance of Bardot on France 2 last May: with an average of 3.2 million viewers per episode at D+28, the series particularly stood up with + 400 000 viewers in catch-up viewing and attracted a younger audience.

Praised by the French and international press, Bardot makes it road to new territories.

In Europe, the series was recently sold to AMC Iberia in Spain, TVP in Poland, Nova in Greece, MTVA in Hungary, RTVS in Slovaquia, LTV and Tet+ in Latvia, ERR in Estonia and Finch Media, distributor for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia.

Negotiations are on their way in other Europeans and English-speaking countries.

These sales adds up to those already announced: Netflix in France, Germany, Benelux and Switzerland, Turkey (Turkcell), Sweden (SVT), Finland (YLE), Norway (NRK), Portugal (NRK), Czech Republic (Czech TB) and Canada (CBC + Radio Canada).

Bardot will get its U.S. Premiere at the American French Film festival (TAFFF) in Los Angeles this October. The series is also competing in the festival « Best Series » Award category. Actress Julia de Nunez, who stars as Brigitte Bardot was also recently awarded with International Golden Nymph For Most Promising Talent award at the 62nd Monte-Carlo Television Festival last June.

You can read our in-depth interview with De Nunez made during the MCTVF at: https://www.tvbizzmagazine.com/julia-de-nunez-golden-nymph-for-most-promising-talent