# Candice Renoir

Candice Renoir is a French crime television series created by Solen Roy-Pagenault, Robin Barataud and Brigitte Peskine and aired since 19 April 2013 on France 2. The show was canceled after the 11th season. In Australia and Europe, the series were released by Acorn TV.

## Plot

Candice Renoir is a mother of four children. She has taken a ten-year leave of absence from her job as a police detective in Paris and has spent this time as a stay-at-home mom, traveling with the family for her husband's jobs in, among others, the United States, Mexico and Singapore. After her marriage fails due to her husband's infidelity, Candice resumes her job as an investigator. She has called in favors and has landed the job of chief of the small BSU (Urban Security Brigade (Brigade de Sûreté Urbaine), criminal investigations division) of the Police Commissariat in Sète (Hérault), a Mediterranean seaside resort suburb of Montpellier. From the moment she arrives at the Police in Sète she is at odds with the local chief of police Commissary Yasmine Attia, as Candice's appointment was forced from the Police HQ in Paris, but also with Police Captain Dumas. Attia had promised Dumas the position of chief of the BSU and he acted in this assignment for a month, before Major Renoir's arrival sidelined him, relegating Dumas back to deputy, much to the frustration of the rest of the team. Renoir's ten-year career gap has left some gaps in her knowledge of more recent police procedures, which initially lands her in trouble. In addition her bubbly personality and soft, at times motherly behavior, unconventional for a criminal police detective, makes her subordinates call her 'Barbie doll' behind her back, but her unique approach brings results and quickly earns her their respect.

## Cast

Some officer ranks of the French National Police are styled after the French Army, but are unrelated as the employees are civil servants. To underline the difference these are sometimes translated into English as Police Major, Police Captain, Police Lieutenant (or alternatively Major of Police, Captain of Police, Lieutenant of Police) etc.
* Cécile Bois as Candice Renoir, Police Major (Commandant de Police) and a mother of four children, who experiences family and work troubles along her way.
* Raphaël Lenglet as Antoine Dumas, Police Captain (Capitaine de Police), who turned Police Commissary (Commissaire de Police) in Season 6.
* Clara Antoons as Emma Renoir, Candice’s eldest daughter
* Etienne Martinelli as Jules Renoir, Candice’s eldest son
* Alexandre Ruscher as Léo Renoir, a son of Candice, who is also a twin of Martin
* Paul Ruscher as Martin Renoir, a son of Candice and a twin of Léo
* Aude Forget as Laurette (season 1), Candice’s housekeeper
* Alix Poisson as Pascale Ibarruri (seasons 1–2), head of Forensic Identity squad
* Arnaud Giovaninetti as Laurent Renoir (seasons 1–2; guest, season 6), Candice’s first husband, in divorce
* Alexandre Varga as Hervé Mazzani (seasons 1–2; guest, season 5), Candice’s first boyfriend after a divorce with Laurent
* Mhamed Arezki as Jean-Baptiste Medjaoui (seasons 1–2; guest, seasons 3 & 10), Police Sergeant Major
* Samira Lachhab [fr] as Yasmine Attia (seasons 1–3) Police Commissary
* Gaya Verneuil [de; fr] as Chrystelle Da Silva (seasons 1–5), Police Lieutenant (Lieutenant de Police)
* Stéphane Blancafort as David Canovas (seasons 2–4; guest, season 5), Police Major and a member of BRI. He and Candice had a relationship before his death in season 4
* Delphine Rich [fr; it] as Aline Jego (seasons 2–5), a leader of Forensic Identity squad, who succeeded and replaced Ibarruri
* Ali Marhyar as Mehdi Badhou (season 3–present), Police Sergeant Major (Brigadier-Chef de Police)
* Nathalie Boutefeu as Sylvie Leclerc (season 4–present), Police Major, turned Police Commissary in late season 4
* Olivier Cabassut as Armand Marquez (seasons 3–4, 7–present), Police Lieutenant, from Season 7 Police Captain
* Yeelem Jappain [fr] as Valentine Atger (season 5–present), Police Lieutenant
* Benjamin Baroche [fr] as Max Francazal (seasons 5–7), Candice's second husband, in divorce
* François-Dominique Blin [fr] as Franck Davenne (season 6), Police Captain Major (Brigadier-Chef de Police)
* Christopfer Ntakabanyura: Ismael Ndongo (guest, season 8; main, season 9–present), Police Lieutenant

## Series overview

| Season | Episodes | Episodes | Originally aired | Originally aired | Average viewers (millions) |
| Season | Episodes | Episodes | First aired | Last aired | Average viewers (millions) |
| 1 | 8 | 8 | April 19, 2013 (2013-04-19) | May 10, 2013 (2013-05-10) | 3.81 |
| 2 | 10 | 10 | April 18, 2014 (2014-04-18) | May 16, 2014 (2014-05-16) | 4.58 |
| 3 | 10 | 10 | May 15, 2015 (2015-05-15) | June 19, 2015 (2015-06-19) | 4.42 |
| 4 | 10 | 10 | May 6, 2016 (2016-05-06) | June 3, 2016 (2016-06-03) | 4.66 |
| 5 | 10 | 10 | April 28, 2017 (2017-04-28) | May 26, 2017 (2017-05-26) | 4.60 |
| 6 | 10 | 10 | April 27, 2018 (2018-04-27) | May 25, 2018 (2018-05-25) | 4.70 |
| 7 | 10 | 10 | April 19, 2019 (2019-04-19) | May 17, 2019 (2019-05-17) | 4.35 |
| 8 | 10 | 10 | April 17, 2020 (2020-04-17) | October 2, 2020 (2020-10-02) | 5.35 |
| 9 | 10 | 10 | September 27, 2021 (2021-09-27) | January 21, 2022 (2022-01-21) | 5.03 |
| 10 | 6 | 6 | May 20, 2022 (2022-05-20) | June 10, 2022 (2022-06-10) | TBA |
| 11 | 2 | 2 | December 30, 2022 (2022-12-30) | November 1, 2023 (2023-11-01) | TBA |

## International broadcasts

In 2020, Polish commercial television channel Polsat started production of their own version of Candice Renoir called Komisarz Mama.