It is not hard to see why. The premise is simple but fertile: a talent agency in Paris, ASK, coping with the imaginary caprices of an impressive coterie of A-listers, who each play a believable version of themselves, mostly for just one episode. Jean Dujardin, best known for 2011 silent movie The Artist, appeared in the show to be hysterically unable to shake off his previous role as a survivalist army deserter, while Juliette Binoche went catastrophically off piste at the Cannes film festival. Isabelle Huppert was seen as a workaholic shooting two films at once, while Monica Bellucci was dying for a date with anyone who wasn’t famous. In the new series, Charlotte Gainsbourg is stuck with an unwanted part and Sandrine Kiberlain gives everything up to try standup.