A Franco-Belgian tragicomedy against the backdrop of an insurance scam, Des gens bien (6 x 52'), the new fiction from the creators of La Trêve, has achieved the best audience for Arte 's "Thursday Series" slot since the beginning of the year, welcomed the channel, Friday, April 14, the day after its launch. On average, the first three episodes of fiction with Bérangère McNeese (HPI) and Lucas Meister (La Trêve), in the main roles, attracted 1.080 million viewers for 5.7% of audience share. The first two opuses reached 1.22 million and 1.14 million people respectively between 8:55 p.m. and 10:35 p.m.
To date, fiction has "already accumulated 850,000 video views " on arte.tv where it has been available in full since April 5, further argues Arte. Grand Prize for the series at the 2023 Luchon TV Festival, Des gens bien, also performed by India Hair and Dominique Pinon, was a great success when it started in Belgium, on the public channel RTBF which co-produced it across Quiévain., alongside the operator Proximus. Sunday October 23, the first two episodes in prime time, on La Une, had gathered 272,565 viewers (22.2% of audience) on average, i.e. the fourth best start to an original Belgian series since 2016.
The fiction is distributed by Federation internationally (Satellifacts, March 16, 2022).