Having all 'the ingredients to become TF1's next breakout hit,' the series will also compete in the French competition at the Festival de la Fiction de La Rochelle.
\n\nStudio TF1 is launching its medical drama “Dr. Seylan & Cindy” at Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Le Havre. Filmed in Drôme in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of Southeastern France, the series stars Natacha Lindinger (“Hard,” “Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky”) and Alice Pol (“Sirènes,” “Tricky Old Dogs”).
\n\nDirected by Cathy Verney (“Hard,” “Vernon Subutex”) and Edouard Deluc (“Pétaouchnok,” “Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti”), the six-episode series introduces us to Louise Seylan (Natacha Lindinger), a neurosurgeon from Paris who returns to her village after her physician father passes away. At the funeral, she meets the wild and irreverent Cindy (Alice Pol), the longtime nurse who helped her father run the only medical facility in town.
\n\nThrough a series of unexpected events, Louise begrudgingly decides to take over her father’s medical practice with the help of Cindy and deal with the medical emergencies of the local citizens and the craziness that comes with living in a rural town.
\n\n“From the producers of ‘HIP’ comes a feel-good medical series built around an unlikely duo, the meeting of a…
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