Strengthened by its success at home, the series Empathy De Florence Longpré will be broadcast from September 1 at prospective time on Canal+ in France. Crave also announced that the second season will be co -developed with the French television channel.
Empathywhich tells the story of Suzanne Beloved (Florence Longpré), a former criminologist who makes her debut as a psychiatrist at the Mont-Royal Institute, is the original series of Crave the most efficient-all languages combined-on the Canadian platform since its release last spring.
She also distinguished herself in France, where she won the public prize at the prestigious Séries Mania festival in Lille, in March. It is under the label of Original creation Canal+
that it will be broadcast in France.
More than a distribution agreement, this collaboration between Crave and Canal+ will continue while the Canadian platform and the French channel will work together to develop the second season ofEmpathyannounced by Crave in May.
Empathy Mark The first collaboration of Canal+ with the Canadian diffuser Crave. We see in this alliance a strong promise around a deep work, and hope that it will be the starting point for a long and beautiful story, both with Crave and with Florence Long
said in a press release Olivier Bibas, director of original creation at Canal+.
Florence Longpré in the series “Empathy”.
Photo: Bell Média/Laurence Grandbois Bernard
Our partnership with Canal+ illustrates Bell Média’s desire to produce excellent original series which find an echo both in the country and abroad
,, for his part, underlined Suzane Landry, vice-president of content development, programming and information at Bell Média.
Produced by Trio Orange in collaboration with Bell Média, the first season ofEmpathy is written by Florence Longpré and produced by Guillaume Longan.
