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TF1 Premieres 'Menace Imminente' as Critique Over Timing Grows

The six-part series adapts Dov Alfon’s Unit 8200 novel into a multilingual coproduction centered on cyber operations.

Overview

  • TF1 launches the six-episode espionage drama on linear TV with streaming on TF1+ starting Monday.
  • Patrick Bruel makes his first lead turn in a TV series as Zeev Abadi, an Israeli intelligence figure pulled into a hunt for stolen cyber software.
  • Natacha Lindinger co-stars as French antiterror officer Fleur Giroud, with the plot opening on a daytime disappearance at Charles de Gaulle airport.
  • The production features French, Russian, English and Hebrew dialogue, with Bruel noting roughly 40% of his lines are in Hebrew and a French-dubbed version airing.
  • L’Humanité questions the broadcast’s timing and portrayal of Israeli intelligence given ongoing violence in Gaza, noting the source novel’s author Dov Alfon is Libération’s director and a former intelligence member.