Studio TF1 Takes Medical Drama 'Dr. Seylan & Cindy' to Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Le Havre
Studio TF1 is launching its new medical drama Dr. Seylan & Cindy at the Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Le Havre, the annual showcase where French television producers pitch upcoming series to international buyers (Variety).
The six-episode series stars Natacha Lindinger as Louise Seylan, a Parisian neurosurgeon who returns to her home village after her physician father dies. There she meets Cindy, played by Alice Pol — the longtime nurse who helped her father run the town's only medical facility. The show was created and written by Camélia Acef and Mathilde Pol, with Cathy Verney and Edouard Deluc directing (Variety).
Each episode runs 52 minutes (Unifrance). Itinéraire Productions produced the series in co-production with TF1, with Juliette Lassalle, Anthony Lancret and Pierre Laugier serving as producers. RTBF, the Belgian public broadcaster for the French-speaking community, is also credited as a co-producer (Unifrance). The cast also includes Eric Pucheu and Omar Mebrouk, with Catherine Hosmalin credited as well (Festival de la Fiction TV; Unifrance).
Filming took place in the Drôme, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of southeastern France (Variety). The series has already been entered in the Compétition Française — Séries (comédie) category at the Festival de la Fiction TV, a French television fiction festival that screens and awards new domestic productions (Festival de la Fiction TV).
TF1 plans to broadcast the series in 2026 (Allociné). The Le Havre launch gives international distributors a first look at the title before it reaches French screens — a standard part of the commissioning calendar, where finished or near-finished series are screened for buyers who license them for their own territories.
For a medical drama built around two women — a surgeon who left and a nurse who stayed — the international market will decide whether this particular village story travels beyond France.
