{"id":363277,"date":"2025-11-07T23:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T23:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/363277\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T23:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T23:49:09","slug":"american-remake-with-sports-twist-in-works-at-hbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/363277\/","title":{"rendered":"American Remake With Sports Twist In Works At HBO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOne of the most popular international scripted formats of the past decade, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/call-my-agent-2\/\" id=\"auto-tag_call-my-agent-2\" data-tag=\"call-my-agent-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Call My Agent<\/a>, is coming to the U.S. via <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/hbo\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hbo\" data-tag=\"hbo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HBO<\/a>. The premium network is developing an American adaptation of the 2015 French comedy-drama (original title Dix Pour Cent, aka Ten Percent, the portion of talent\u2019s paychecks that goes to their agents.) It is being written and executive produced by The Other Two co-creator\/exec producer <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/sarah-schneider\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sarah-schneider\" data-tag=\"sarah-schneider\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Schneider<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe original series, which ran for four seasons on France 2, revolved around talent agents and their relationships with their actor clients, many of them French celebrities playing themselves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tTaking a page from HBO\u2019s cult 1996 comedy-drama Arliss, the American adaptation is tweaking the premise, moving the setting to the sports representation world. In it, four work-obsessed sports agents struggle to balance their personal lives and their clients\u2019 needs in an industry where, more and more, it feels like being an athlete is just the start.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFrench media conglom\u00a0Mediawan, whose labels Mon Voisin Productions and Mother Production produced the original series, is behind the proposed U.S. remake via its subsidiary, Brad Pitt\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/plan-b\/\" id=\"auto-tag_plan-b\" data-tag=\"plan-b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Plan B<\/a>, which executive produces alongside Fulwell Entertainment\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/springhill\/\" id=\"auto-tag_springhill\" data-tag=\"springhill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SpringHill<\/a> Studios, led by LeBron James and\u00a0Maverick Carter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSpringHill\u2019s involvement signals a likely retention of the original\u2019s format, with real sports stars playing themselves as clients of the fictional sports agency.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe French series, starring Camille Cottin, Thibault de Montalembert, Gr\u00e9gory Montel and Liliane Rov\u00e8re, is well known in America via its run on Netflix which gave it the Call My Agent title. As Deadline reported earlier this year, the streamer<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/09\/netflix-reunites-the-cast-for-call-my-agent-the-movie-1236529685\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> is doing a followup movie with the original cast<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tTo date, the French series, which won the International Emmy Award for Best Comedy Series in 2021, has been adapted in about dozen countries, including the UK, Germany and India.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSchneider, a former Saturday Night Live co-head writer, is currently at HBO, serving as co-executive producer on the new Tim Robinson comedy series The Chair Company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the most popular international scripted formats of the past decade, Call My Agent, is coming to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":363278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[166586,171,5560,10143,176085,176086,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-363277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-call-my-agent","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-hbo","11":"tag-plan-b","12":"tag-sarah-schneider","13":"tag-springhill","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115511097143114059","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}