Studio TF1 is celebrating recent successes at home and abroad with Sacha Vucinic and Xavier Marchand’s sports documentary “Leon Marchand: Beyond Gold” and Slimane-Baptiste Berhoun’s mystery drama “Surface.”
\n\nWhile the doc series on French Olympic swimming champion Leon Marchand and his life in the wake of four gold-medal wins at the Paris Olympics has scored record viewing results for France TV, “Surface” has proved a hot seller across Europe and in the U.S.
\n\nOffering an intimate look at the young Marchand over the year following his Olympic victories, “Leon Marchand: Beyond Gold” goes beyond the medals to explore his identity, ambition and life as he copes with sudden fame, pursues engineering studies and navigates personal growth at age 22.
\n\nSetting an all-time documentary record for France TV, the three-part series drew 2.3 million average views per episode when it premiered on the france.tv platform in July followed by 1.6 million viewers on France 2 during its Sept. 1 TV premiere and a total of more than 13 million views across social media, including more than 1 million views on YouTube.
\n\nOn the scripted front, Studio TF1’s hit mystery drama “Surface,” which premiered last year at Canneseries and went on to…
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