''Witnesses'' (french: link=no, Les Témoins) is a French police procedural television series, created by Marc Herpoux and Hervé Hadmar, that premiered in

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on 22 November 2014. Set in the coastal town of

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in Normandy, France, police detectives Sandra Winckler (

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) and Justin (

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) investigate when bodies of murder victims are unearthed and left for discovery in the show homes of a housing developer. Former chief-of-police, Paul Maisonneuve (

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), is implicated. This series was later broadcast in France on

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from 8 March 2015, and from 1 May 2015

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began streaming a subtitled version in the United States.

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broadcast the series in the United Kingdom from 22 July 2015. Marie Dompnier won a Golden FIPA award for the best actress in a television series at 2015's

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for her role as Sandra Winckler. In March 2016,

announced a second series was in production. This series premiered in France on 15 March 2017. Sandra and Justin find themselves on the trail of a

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whose modus operandi is to murder all former lovers of his kidnap victims. Audrey Fleurot and Judith Henry joined the cast. In the UK, this series was broadcast on BBC Four from 25 November 2017.

Cast

as Sandra Winckler *

as Justin * Alexandre Carrière as Fred * Florence Bolufer as Melanie

Series 1

as Paul Maisonneuve *

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as Kaz Gorbier * Catherine Mouchet as Maxine "Max" Dubreuil *

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as Laura *

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as Eric *

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as Philippe * Thomas Doret as Jérémie Gorbier * Laurent Delbecque as Thomas Maisonneuve

Series 2

* Audrey Fleurot as Catherine Keemer * Judith Henry as Maxine * Steve Driesen as Oliver Keemer * Yannick Choirat as Geir Jansen * Guillaume Durieux as Eric Winckler * Anne Benoît as Christiane Varène * Philip Desmeules as Antoine Barrier * Dominique Bettenfeld as Martin Souriau

Episodes

Series 1 (2015)

Series 2 (2017)

References

External links

* * {{official website, http://lestemoins-laserie.com
''Les Témoins''
on

2015 French television series debuts French-language television shows Detective television series La Une original programming