Mirette Investigates (French: Les enquêtes de Mirette) is a French-Spanish animated series based on a series of picture books by the author Fanny Joly, a sister of the actress Sylvie Joly. Laurent Audouin illustrated the book series, which debuted in 2008.[1][2] The animated series premiered in TF1's TFOU on 6 November 2016,[3] and is billed as the "first travelling detective comedy"


Premise

The show revolves on the international adventures of a young detective named Mirette and her talking feline assistant Jean-Pat who travels with her travel-agent father and solves mysteries.[5]
Characters

  Mirette: An eleven year-old girl who wants to be the world's greatest detective under the age of twelve. She prefers using traditional technology to solve mysteries.
  Jean-Pat: A tech-savvy and lazy cat who is Mirette's main partner in their adventures.
  Detective Mollo: A detective who has an unreliable performance in his job.
  Sophie Scoop: A thirteen year-old girl who is Mirette's best friend and wants to be a news reporter. She is also the number one fan of Jean-Pat.
  The Grand Vilain International (GVI): The only member of the FPECTRE secret organization, he wants to turn the world into a giant minigolf course and attempts to harm Mirette. He has a dog named Gérard.

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Production

Mirette Investigates was one of the projects pitched in the European animation event Cartoon Forum in 2013.[7] Production began on October 2014.[8] It was produced by Cyber Group Studios and KD Productions.[5]
Release

The show was sold to TF1 and Canal+ (France), TV3 (Catalonia), WDR (Germany), Teletoon+ (Poland), SVT (Sweden), RTS (Switzerland), Minimax (Central Europe), and VRT (Belgium).[9] In June 2016, Studio 100 announced it acquired the DVD and VoD rights to Mirette Investigates in German-speaking territories.[10][11]
Interactive features

Cyber Group founder Pierre Sissman said the show would have webisodes and websites, and tablet games requiring clues from the television series for solving investigations.[5]