Missions (TV series)

Missions (French pronunciation: [misjɔ̃] ⓘ) is a French science-fiction television series first broadcast in 2017. Set in the near future, it depicts a mission to the planet Mars.

Missions was created by Ami Cohen, Henri Debeurme and Julien Lacombe [fr] and produced by Empreinte Digitale of Paris. It was first broadcast in June 2017 on the French pay-TV channel OCS, released on the Shudder streaming service in September 2017, and broadcast free-to-air on Britain's BBC Four in May 2018. The first series has ten 26-minute episodes that were as short as 20 minutes when aired by the BBC without intervening adverts. The first series is a mixture of science fiction, adventure and mysticism and does not draw to a self-contained conclusion.[1][2][3][4][5]

Series 2 of Missions was scheduled to start filming in 2018, co-produced by Empreinte Digitale and by Shudder's parent company, AMC Networks.[6] It was released in 2019.

Series 3 consisted of ten[7] episodes and was launched in 2021.[8]

  1. ^ Roxborough, Scott (10 November 2017). "MIPCOM: BBC, Germany's RTL Take French Sci-Fi Series 'Missions'". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
  2. ^ Béot, Ludovic (3 March 2017). ""Missions" : une série française de SF très prometteuse". Les Inrockuptables (in French). Retrieved 18 May 2018.
  3. ^ "BBC4 acquires sc-fi series Missions to broadcast in 2018". Radio Times. 8 October 2018. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
  4. ^ Prudom, Laura (27 September 2017). "This new French series could be sci-fi's answer to 'The Returned'". Mashable.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference BBC4 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference Keslassy was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ "BBC Four - Missions - Available now". BBC. Retrieved 2022-05-20.
  8. ^ "Missions - Season 3 (2021)". justwatch.com. 21 February 2022.