History Series / DixPourCent

''Dix pour cent'' (renamed ''Call my agent!'' abroad) is a French series that started to air in 2015 on France 2. It follows talent agents Andrea, Mathias, Gabriel and Arlette, along with their assistants Camille, Hervé, and Noémie, and receptionist Sofia, in the agency ASK (Agence Samuel Kerr). The series follows their adventures as they manage the career, whims and problems of their protégés in exchange for ten percent of their earnings (hence the French title of the series). The first episode ends with the abrupt death of their boss that puts the agency in jeopardy.

* MethodActing: InUniverse. Jean Dujardin gets so deep into his role as a World War I deserter that he signs the contract for his next film as his character (and apparently drags the document across the forest floor). When Andréa visits, he's living under some trees in his yard, still killing rabbits and in his same filthy, unwashed, unshaven state. [[spoiler:Even after she and his wife get him drunk and clean him up, Dujardain doesn't snap out of it until he ''bites a director's dog'' for going after his old coat.]]

* MayDecemberRomance: In season 4, Sigourney Weaver ''really'' wants Gaspard Ulliel (who is half her age) to be cast as the male lead in her upcoming romantic drama.

* ChekhovsGun: This anonymous woman that Andréa rejects on a dating website? She turns out to be [[spoiler: Colette, the fiscal inspector in charge of ASK tax audit]] two episodes later.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Mathias. Although he does have an emotional loyalty to [=ASK=], he is quick to capitalize on any misfortune his colleagues suffer starting from the first episode, and seems to relish in the cutthroat part of the business. [[spoiler:Hicham fires him for this at the end of season 3.]] It gets to the point that someone ''he is plotting with'' outright asks him if he enjoys manipulating people all the time, just because she can't believe it.
* CornerOfWoe: Following his [[spoiler:separation from Sofia]], Gabriel essentially retreats into his office, closes all of the blinds and apparently does little apart from gorging himself on whipped cream. His professional performance winds up suffering so much that Hicham finds it necessary to monitor his work.

* DoomedNewClothes: Juliette Binoche's form-fitting, delicate red carpet dress for the Cannes. She actually rips it in the first scene when she stoops over to get her phone. [[spoiler:Then she wrecks it seconds before she's due onstage to open the festival. She goes out anyway and laughs it off before going off-script for her speech.]]

** Although Hicham's unexpected promotion of Camille to full agent creates a huge amount of upheaval in her personal life (and ultimately leads to her temporarily [[spoiler: quitting ASK]]), he's not wrong that her hardworking yet pleasant and selfless nature makes her ideal for the job. By the end of Season 4, Camille is the one who [[spoiler: who starts her own agency.]]

* LargeHam: Hervé's crush Valentin, who is trying to pursue an acting career. Problem is, he's terrible, severely overplaying every scene he tries and often shouting for no reason.

* DeliveryGuy: Noemie has to deliver Andréa's baby on the lobby carpet with over-the-phone instructions before the ambulance arrives.

** Although Hicham's unexpected promotion of Camille to full agent creates a huge amount of upheaval in her personal life (and ultimately leads to her temporarily [[spoiler: quitting ASK]]), he's not wrong that her hardworking yet selfless nature makes her ideal for the job. By the end of Season 4, Camille is the one who [[spoiler: who starts her own agency.]]

** Season 1 Andréa is a lot more hotheaded and impulsive than she would end up being. In Season 2, she's still an aggressive go-getter, but her characterization starts revolving more around her workaholism, and she shows an ability for manipulation and canny tactics that is nearly on level with that of Mathias.

* MaliciousMisnaming: Hicham has a tendency to call Andréa simply "Marteau" when he's mad at her or trying to get a rise out of her.

* OddFriendship: Juliette Binoche and the huge security man that accompanies her red carpet jewelry. He offers to teach her how to behave while wearing an earpiece. Later they companionably share pizza in her room and talk about the movies.

* VanillaProtagonist: Camille, the kind, mousy girl whose journey from [[spoiler: shy newcomer to talented full-time agent]] forms the clearest arc of CharacterDevelopment in the show, is nonetheless this when compared with the much louder and more dramatic personalities of fellow assistants Hervé and Noémie.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Hicham, in his characteristically blunt manner, tells Gabriel that his being Sofia's agent and boyfriend is a bad mix. To Gabriel's dismay, basically everyone agrees with him. The point is further proved when Gabriel [[spoiler: sabotages Sofia's project with Julien Doré due to his insecurities about their relationship.]]

* Noémie comes across as being rather stuck-up and prissy in the early episodes. When she began to get more screen time and her relationship with Mathias was explored in more detail, these traits fell by the wayside, while her emotionality and neuroticism was emphasized.

** In season 4, it's revealed that Hervé has a natural talent for acting that nobody (least of all him) suspected.
** Noemie is a better fit for producing a film with her administrative focus than Mathias, who really hasn't moved on from being an agent.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Hicham is ruthless in business, but all agree that Gabriel being Sofia's agent and boyfriend is a bad mix and she needs to switch agents, or boyfriends.

* MethodActing: Jean Dujardin gets so deep into his role as a World War I deserter that he signs the contract for his next film as his character (and apparently drags the document across the forest floor). When Andréa visits, he's living under some trees in his yard, still killing rabbits and in his same filthy, unwashed, unshaven state. [[spoiler:Even after she and his wife get him drunk and clean him up, Dujardain doesn't snap out of it until he ''bites a director's dog'' for going after his old coat.]]

* ManipulativeBastard: while manipulation is all other the place, Andréa and Mathias stand out as masters. And then there's Elise Formain from Star Média, who arguably beats them both.

* NoBisexuals: Andrea denies being bisexual when asked, despite having sex with men, and says she's a lesbian. She also mentions she's had sex with men in the past, but her preference is for women. Andrea later claims not to find men desirable at all or have sex with them.

* ZanyScheme: Many of the episode's workplace plots are about the agents trying various ill-fated plots to make their actors cooperate with the directors, screenwriters, etc--and sometimes working at cross-purposes.

* ManipulativeBastard: while manipulation is all other the place, Andréa and Mathias stand out as masters. And then there's Elise Formain from Star Média, who arguably beats them both.