The screenwriter Nicolas Jean, one of the creators of the HPI success series, of which he had the idea, died on September 29 at the age of 63, said the Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers (SACD).
“Among its striking fictions, we can cite series such as Mantis, the impatient, Prometheus, all for Agnès and, of course, HPI, this phenomenal success on French television, sold in 90 countries,” said SACD administrator, Florence Philipponnat, in a press release published on the social networks of this professional organization on Monday.
The idea of the series transmitted in TF1 “had come from one of his children diagnosed HPI” (high intellectual potential, editor’s note), recalled Mrs. Philipponnat.
Nicolas Jean also collaborated with the daily soap opera of TF1 Tomorrow belongs to us.
“Self -taough, (…) won very fast as a talented and inevitable screenwriter on television”, after having entered the business thirteen years ago, “Florence Philipponnat continued.
Hearing heights
HPI, whose last episode was broadcast on September 25 at the end of five seasons, was bought by Alice Chegaray-Bregnot, Stéphane Carrié and Nicolas Jean, with an original idea of the latter.
The heroine, Morgane Álvaro (played by Audrey Fleurot), is a cleaning lady with an outgoing personality, recruited to help the police thanks to their high intellectual potential (HPI).
Rolling in 2021, HPI reached Height Heights: one of the episodes of the first season had exceeded 12 million viewers (repetition included), record for a series since 2005.
During the stations, the audiences have fallen, while remaining at a very high level. The last episode attracted 5.6 million viewers.
Source: BFM TV
