Netflix Partners with TF1 and Newen on Their First-Ever French Daily Drama

France’s Newen Studios and free-to-air broadcaster TF1 Group have signed a deal with Netflix that will see the partners co-produce the streamer’s first-ever daily drama series for France.

The series, Tout Pour La Lumière (All for Light), a family series set in the world of music and dance, will shoot next year and become available on Netflix five days prior to its free-to-air broadcast on TF1 and VOD player TF1+.

Newen will produce the series as well as co-finance. Co-written by Coline Assous, Yentl Coubes, and Maxime Cormier, Tout Pour La Lumière will be produced by Céline François, and overseen by Stéphanie Brémond, Deputy General Director of continuing drama and long-form series at Newen Studios. Filming will take place on location in the Mediterranian town of La Ciotat with studio sets in La Belle de Mai in Marseille.

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