Dupuis Edition & Audiovisuel Developing Living with Dad

Dupuis Edition & Audiovisuel is currently developing Living with Dad, which will be presented at Cartoon Forum in Toulouse in September.

Based on the Dad comic book by Nob, the animated series features the points of view of four daughters: Pandora, a.k.a. Panda, 18; Ondine, 12; Roxane, 8; and Bérénice, a.k.a. Bébérénice, 1. Their loving but super-busy mothers have entrusted them to their father, a single 40-something, who brings them up with love.

The Dad comics on which the series is based have sold over 560,000 copies for the French version alone, and have been translated into seven languages: Spanish, Italian, English, Chinese, Dutch, Croatian and Serbian.

“Cartoon Forum is a great opportunity to present this funny, modern and refreshing new series to potential new partners,” said Caroline Audebert, managing director of the production audiovisual department of Média-Participations. “It’s no surprise that Nob’s album has achieved massive success. His humorous take on this single dad enjoying bringing up his four daughters is really heartwarming. Being able to adapt it as a sitcom with the children’s gentle yet merciless point of view of the hurly-burly life of a modern family is a fabulous opportunity and a great pleasure.”

Coralie Boitrelle-Laigle, director of youth programs at Groupe M6, said, “We are really looking forward to screening this gentle and funny series to our viewers. As the leading youth broadcaster in France, it’s very important for Gulli to highlight all types of modern and atypical family models. Living with Dad, where a father takes care of his four girls, allows us to get across strong messages such as gender equality. It is also an opportunity to portray four strong-willed sisters, making them different and comic heroines enabling the whole family to recognize themselves and identify with them.”

“The series is funny and entertaining while raising the existential question of ‘living, being and doing together,’ above and beyond differences, in a changing world where collective references need rebuilding—in short, we all have something in common with these girls,” said Daniel Klein (Pat the Dog, The Dangers…), director of the series.