History Series / DixPourCent

''Dix pour cent'' ("Ten Percent", renamed ''Call My Agent!'' abroad) is a French comedy series that began airing in 2015 on France 2, although Netflix now owns the distribution rights in most countries. It centers on talent agents [[TheAce Andrea Martel]], [[PragmaticAntiHero Mathias Barneville]], [[NiceGuy Gabriel Sarda]] and [[CoolOldLady Arlette Azémar]], along with their assistants [[NaiveNewcomer Camille Valentini]], [[CampGay Hervé André-Jezak]] and [[ProneToTears Noémie Leclerc]], and receptionist [[WaitingForABreak Sofia Leprince]], in the agency ASK (Agence Samuel Kerr). The series follows their adventures as they manage the career, whims and problems of their protégés in exchange for ten percent of their earnings (hence the French title of the series). The first episode ends with the abrupt death of their boss that puts the agency in jeopardy.

* LargeHam: Hervé's Season 3 crush Valentin, who is trying to pursue an acting career. Unfortunately he's an awful actor, severely overplaying every scene he tries and often shouting for no reason.

''Dix pour cent'' ("Ten Percent", renamed ''Call My Agent!'' abroad) is a French comedy series that began airing in 2015 on France 2 (although Netflix now owns the distribution rights in most countries). It centers on talent agents [[TheAce Andrea Martel]], [[PragmaticAntiHero Mathias Barneville]], [[NiceGuy Gabriel Sarda]] and [[CoolOldLady Arlette Azémar]], along with their assistants [[NaiveNewcomer Camille Valentini]], [[CampGay Hervé André-Jezak]] and [[ProneToTears Noémie Leclerc]], and receptionist [[WaitingForABreak Sofia Leprince]], in the agency ASK (Agence Samuel Kerr). The series follows their adventures as they manage the career, whims and problems of their protégés in exchange for ten percent of their earnings (hence the French title of the series). The first episode ends with the abrupt death of their boss that puts the agency in jeopardy.

''Dix pour cent'' ("Ten Percent", renamed ''Call My Agent!'' abroad) is a French series that started to air in 2015 on France 2. It follows talent agents Andrea, Mathias, Gabriel and Arlette, along with their assistants Camille, Hervé, and Noémie, and receptionist Sofia, in the agency ASK (Agence Samuel Kerr). The series follows their adventures as they manage the career, whims and problems of their protégés in exchange for ten percent of their earnings (hence the French title of the series). The first episode ends with the abrupt death of their boss that puts the agency in jeopardy.

** In season 4, it's revealed that Hervé has a natural talent for acting that nobody (least of all him) suspected. Then again, given his extremely dramatic, theatrical personality, perhaps it's not all that surprising.

* CrazyJealousGuy: Gabriel with Sofia in season 2. He is deeply insecure about his beautiful younger girlfriend doing an erotic musical with the young and dashing Julien Doré. [[spoiler:He ends up sabotaging the project and Sophia leaves him when she finds out.]]

* TokenEvilTeammate: Mathias Barneville, the most ambitious, backstabbing and venal of the agents.
-->'''Hervé:''' For everyone, he is the most horrible agent in the world but for Noemie, he is the perfect man.

* AdvertisedExtra: Judging by how heavily she's featured in the opening credits, you'd expect Arlette to play a major role in the series, but she generally functions as a SatelliteCharacter who pops in a few times per episode to deliver sarcastic quips about her many years of experience in the industry. In fact, Camille, Hervé, Noémie and Sofia all have more screen time, and unlike Arlette get storylines of their own.

* AllGaysArePromiscuous: Hervé's definition of not having had sex in ages is six days. In the season 2 premiere he denounces fidelity as an idea, calling it "hetero-conservative thinking" and saying that everyone's body belongs to themselves and not their partners.

* AudienceSurrogate: Camille, a down-to-earth young woman whose lack of experience in the film industry provides many opportunities for exposition in Season 1.

* BeardOfSorrow: Gabriel grows one following his [[spoiler: breakup with Sofia.]]

* BittersweetEnding: The final season ends with [[spoiler: ASK closing its doors for good]], but with all of the agents [[spoiler: having promising future prospects.]] Specifically, [[spoiler: Camille decides to start her own agency with help from her father and Arlette, Mathias and Noémie move into film production, Gabriel goes to work for Star Média (but insists he'll be a spy for Camille's agency), Sofia and Hervé pursue their blossoming acting careers, and Andrea...gets a bit of rest.]]
* BourgeoisBohemian: Mathias' wife Catherine, who is quite wealthy but is also clearly left-leaning politically and who at one point takes a trip to an ashram in India to do a meditation course.

* ButNotTooBlack & ButNotTooWhite: Sofia is unable to land casting calls partly because as a biracial actress, she is considered too black to play white characters, too white to play black characters, or just too exotic in general.
* BrutalHonesty: Andréa, many, many times. When someone complains, Gabriel points out that while she might temporarily offend someone, her comments have a tendency to stick in people's heads and earn a call back.
-->'''Author''': I will autograph it [my book] for you. I can maybe write my phone number as well?\\
'''Andréa''': No. The autograph is good enough.

* CampGay: Hervé, who is very camp with a hip-swiveling walk.
* TheCasanova: Andrea, who leaves a trail of broken hearts behind her. It comes back to bite her when she tries to seduce the uptight and romantic Colette. Discussed when she realized how the title character of the [[Literature/DonJuan Don Juan]] adaptation matches her behavior.

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Mathias. Although he does have an emotional loyalty to ASK, he is quick to capitalize on any misfortune his colleagues suffer starting from the first episode, and seems to relish in the cutthroat part of the business. [[spoiler:Hicham fires him for this at the end of season 3.]] It gets to the point that someone ''he is plotting with'' outright asks him if he enjoys manipulating people all the time, just because she can't believe it.
* ComfortFood: Gabriel tends to consume a ''lot'' of whipped cream (straight from the can) whenever he's [[PostStressOvereating stressed or upset.]]

* HeelRealization: Mathias is able to rationalize his underhanded operating as "just part of the business" up until he steals his own daughter's first film contract [[spoiler:and suffers a heart attack after she steals it back]]. When Noemie delivers a succinct TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to him in his hospital bed, he finally begins to reevaluate his self-serving, workaholic philosophy.
* TheHeart: In a blunt way, Arlette, as she keeps everyone together and delivering moral lessons.

* IgnoredEnamoredUnderling: Noémie for Mathias in the first couple of seasons. He never does get it, until the Season 2 moment where she grabs his hand and puts it on her breast. After that, they have an affair.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Hicham, quite often.
** In his characteristically blunt manner, Hicham tells Gabriel that his being Sofia's agent and boyfriend is a bad mix. To Gabriel's dismay, basically everyone agrees with him. The point is further proved when Gabriel [[spoiler: sabotages Sofia's project with Julien Doré due to his insecurities about their relationship.]]
** Although Hicham's unexpected promotion of Camille to full agent creates a huge amount of upheaval in her personal life (and ultimately leads to her temporarily [[spoiler: quitting ASK]]), he's not wrong that her hardworking yet polite and selfless nature makes her ideal for the job. By the end of Season 4, Camille is the one who [[spoiler: who starts her own agency.]]

* LadykillerInLove: Andréa for Colette.

* MeanBoss: Hicham Janowski, who bought most of ASK's shares in season 2. While he's competent and genuinely cares about the job, his tolerance for mistakes is extremely low and he steamrolls everybody he comes into contact with, generally behaving like a jerk. [[spoiler: Eventually, in season 3, he begins to make an effort to be a nicer person after realizing that literally nobody likes him.]]
* MeaningfulRename: Andréa Martel's birth name is Andréa Marteau. She changed her name to avoid easy puns (Marteau means 'Hammer') that generated a degree of bullying in her youth and to erase her provincial origins.

* MsFanservice: Generally averted, with the exception of Noémie, who has nude scenes in the later seasons.
** Sofia is this InUniverse, given that she apparently has no problems being naked in Julien Doré's film.
* NaiveNewcomer: Camille, freshly arrived in Paris from the south of France, gets hired as Andrea's assistant in the first episode. She learns quickly, however, and by the fourth season she's [[{{Outgambitted}} Outgambitting]] her own father.
* NiceGuy: Gabriel has a reputation for being the nicest agent in Paris. He is emotionally invested in his talents, struggles the most when he has to deliver bad news, and is disgusted with the underhanded methods his colleagues sometimes use. Even when he's trapped in an elevator with someone he hates, he ends up trying to comfort her through a claustrophobic attack.

** For his part, Doré seems to take the film's failure in stride, chalking the whole thing up to an InUniverse case of TrueArtIsIncomprehensible. Sofia, on the other hand, is far more upset.

** Virgine Efira is photographed kissing another man during a media tour that is focused around the strong, mutually supportive relationship she has with her partner Ramzy Bédia. She insists to Matias that it was a friendly kiss (on the mouth) and that "the angle makes it look worse."
** Later, she and ''Matias'' are photographed together late at night because she's crashing at the agency after the break-up. This one really was innocent, as he was just taking her arm to get her off the balcony because she was throwing things at the paparazzi. [[spoiler:But in the wake of finding out about Camille, the tabloid photographs convince his wife to get a divorce.]]

* OutOfFocus: While he does make some appearances Hicham is a less prominent character in Season 4. He decides to spend more time in London with his son and gives over day-to-day management of ASK to Andrea. (She runs it into the ground.)

* PetTheDog: Hervé tends to be self-centered and bitchy, but he's also shown to genuinely care about his friends and is extremely concerned when Gabriel goes off the rails following [[spoiler: his breakup with Sofia.]]

* PragmaticAntiHero: Mathias.

* ProneToTears: Noémie--hardly an episode goes by in which she doesn't have an emotional breakdown of some sort. Generally it's PlayedForLaughs.

* SecretOtherFamily: Camille, who is Mathias's daughter from a long-ago assignation. Mathias has a wife and a son in Paris who have no idea about her, causing a major SurpriseIncest problem when Mathias's son Hippolytus falls for Camille.
* SherlockScan: Colette rejects one of Andréa's attempts to flirt with her by listing all the personality flaws she found just by looking at Andréa's monthly receipts.
* ShrinkingViolet: Gabriel tends to be pretty conflict-avoidant, and is known as the NiceGuy among the French talent agents.
* SignificantWardrobeShift: Camille goes from brightly-colored nails, messy updos, and casual clothing to wearing darker, more professional outfits, and keeping her hair down as the first season progresses (in other words, she starts dressing more like Andréa).

* TheSociopath: Elise Formain. She poses as a woman passed over for a deserved promotion to gain Andréa's sympathy and trust, flirts with her (and Camille), and manipulates her into revealing embarrassing secrets about clients (which Elise later uses to torpedo their relationships). She manipulates Gabriel by [[spoiler:holding up Sofia's contract for a breakout film]] and breaks up Igor's marriage ''and'' affair by sleeping with him to further her machinations. And absolutely nothing anyone says to her has any effect--while Mathias gets pangs of conscience, Elise responds to every probing question and emotional attack with a smile and a flippant remark, perfectly serene in her triumphs.

* SucksAtDancing: Sofia does not know how to breakdance.

* ToxicFriendInfluence: In season 4, Sofia befriends another actress named Mel, whose influence leads her to act [[JerkassBall like a diva]]. When she finds out that Mel has actually been trying to prevent her from landing projects, Sofia cuts ties and returns to her normal self.

* UndyingLoyalty: Noémie for Mathias. When he is forced to [[spoiler: leave ASK]] at the end of Season 3, she willingly quits her job to go with him, although she continues to maintain her friendships with Hervé, Camille and Sofia.

* WaitingForABreak: Sofia, in the first season.

* StrugglingSingleMother: [[Series/{{Engrenages}} Audrey Fleurot]] with her two kids. While not single, her husband is somewhere in South America making a documentary, she is too busy to get acting jobs and needs money to pay off overdue taxes.

* ChekhovsGun: This anonymous woman that Andréa rejects on a dating website? She turns out to be [[spoiler: Colette, the fiscal inspector in charge of ASK tax audit]] two episodes later.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: A RunningGag in Season 1 has character actor Zinedine Soualem constantly harassing Mathias about potential roles in upcoming projects. This was dropped in Season 2.

* McLeaned: InUniverse, how a screenwriter for a successful television series threatens to fire an unprofessional, self-obsessed actor from ASK: his character will suddenly get testicular cancer.

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Each episode is titled with the first name of that week's celebrity client.
* IgnoredEnamoredUnderling: Noémie for Mathias in the first couple of seasons.

* MaliciousMisnaming: Hicham has a tendency to call Andréa "Marteau" when he's mad at her or trying to get a rise out of her.

* TheGhost: Many famous actors that ASK manages but that are not seen on screen. Among others, [[Creator/LeaSeydoux Léa Seydoux]].

* AllGaysArePromiscuous: Hervé's definition of not having had sex in ages is six days.

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Mathias. Although he does have an emotional loyalty to [=ASK=], he is quick to capitalize on any misfortune his colleagues suffer starting from the first episode, and seems to relish in the cutthroat part of the business. [[spoiler:Hicham fires him for this at the end of season 3.]] It gets to the point that someone ''he is plotting with'' outright asks him if he enjoys manipulating people all the time, just because she can't believe it.

* ContrivedCoincidence: For a big city, the characters run into each other in the most inopportune places. The woman Andréa blows off on a dating site? The accountant scheduled to audit her agency. The office Andréa and Gabriel scout when they consider leaving [=ASK=]? Same street as Guy Marchand's psychic. Etcetera.

* ExiledToTheCouch: Mathias confesses to his wife that Camille is his daughter in the episode 5 of Season 1. Episode 6 starts with him sleeping on the couch.

* Main/TheGhost: Many famous actors that ASK manages but that are not seen on screen. Among others, [[Creator/LeaSeydoux Léa Seydoux]].
* FreudianExcuse: The director of the ''Dom Juan'' play insists that the duck stays because when he was a child, he was in the pool playing with a rubber duck on the day his father left the family.

* KarmaHoudini: Elise Formain. [[spoiler:At the end, she succeeds in destroying [=ASK=], coercing Gabriel to join [=StarMédia=], and gaining Jean Reno as a client. Apart from Andréa shoving her into a wall, suffers no personal or professional consequences. The only thing she ''might'' not get is Jean Reno, because he hints to Andréa that he's not going to stay as Elise's client any longer than the end of filming.]]

* RefugeinAudacity: The agency tries to get out of being sued over Isabelle Huppert acting in two films simultaneously by finding another woman named Isabelle Huppert, and filming scenes to convince the American producers that there is another French actress with the same name. It works.

* CampGay: Hervé.

''Dix pour cent'' (renamed ''Call My Agent!'' abroad) is a French series that started to air in 2015 on France 2. It follows talent agents Andrea, Mathias, Gabriel and Arlette, along with their assistants Camille, Hervé, and Noémie, and receptionist Sofia, in the agency ASK (Agence Samuel Kerr). The series follows their adventures as they manage the career, whims and problems of their protégés in exchange for ten percent of their earnings (hence the French title of the series). The first episode ends with the abrupt death of their boss that puts the agency in jeopardy.