PARIS, September 12 — The story begins with an agency that no longer exists and an agent who traded the phone for the director’s chair. Six years after the television series ended, the French super-agents of ASK (Agence Samuel Kerr) are back on Netflix in Call My Agent! the Movie, a one-off feature-length episode that arrives five years after the show’s last episode. The original series followed French celebrity agents whose starry clients played themselves.
This return is described as a higher-budget, feature-length story that recaptures the show’s frantic, funny spirit.
Andréa’s directorial debut descends into chaos
In the film, thick-skinned Andréa (Camille Cottin) has turned director since the agency disbanded, and her first movie is descending into chaos. She loses one actor, misses signing George Clooney — who sends himself up in a starry cameo — and cannot get a wild boar to follow the script. She will need her old friends to claw back millions in lost budget and save the film.
Reviewing it, Huw Fullerton notes that international remakes, including Prime Video’s 2022 British version Ten Percent, never recaptured the original’s brilliance, and calls this return a pleasure.
What else is new across the streamers
Also new to Netflix is Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi epic Dune: Part Two, continuing Paul Atreides’s journey as he joins the Fremen to seek revenge against those who destroyed his family and confront a destiny that could reshape the galaxy. It stars Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson and Austin Butler and is widely regarded as ambitious and thrilling.
A recent arrival on Disney+ is The Mandalorian and Grogu, continuing the Star Wars adventures of Din Djarin and his Force-sensitive apprentice Grogu as they take on a new mission for the fledgling New Republic amid the threat of scattered Imperial warlords. Starring Pedro Pascal, it builds on The Mandalorian series and takes the duo to the big screen.
Also streaming now is Minions & Monsters, in which James and Henry decide to make their own creature feature by conjuring up a real monster, with movie references and visual gags aplenty. New to Apple TV is Last Seen, a poised Australian crime drama set in a small coastal town, where police call handler Ian (Patrick Brammall) has never recovered from his daughter going missing 11 years previously. When a call comes in from a teenager (Chloe Jean Lourdes), Ian is convinced it is her.
On Prime Video, The Grand Tour returns with a brand-new era as motoring YouTubers Thomas Holland and James Engelsman (of Throttle House) join social media star and engineer Francis Bourgeois to take over from Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, keeping the globe-trotting road trips, big automotive challenges and banter.
The round-up also spans BBC iPlayer and beyond, citing a sweeping period drama such as My Brilliant Career, a tell-all football documentary such as Mourinho and a critically acclaimed comedy such as Ted Lasso, with details of where each title can be watched.
Other titles covered include a teen drama in which Teagan (Miku Martineau) enrols at a posh prep school on the east coast of America after her scandal-hit family leaves California, becoming coxswain for the boys’ rowing team, and a second entry in the rebooted DC movie franchise starring Milly Alcock as Kara Zor-El, whose boozy stupor is interrupted when she is drawn into a fight against the vicious Krem (Matthias Schoenaerts), with Jason Momoa, previously DC’s on-screen Aquaman, as a bad-boy bounty hunter.
The piece also notes the publisher Immediate Media’s offer of carefully selected partner offers. For those involved, the draw this weekend is a reunion worth the wait — and a reminder that some agencies, like some films, are never quite finished.
