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French film and television promotion group Unifrance announced the winners of its annual TV export awards on Monday, honoring the best-selling French television shows worldwide. Daniela Elstner, Executive Director of Unifrance, and Sarah Hemar, Director of Audiovisual, announced the winners of the 21st Unifrance TV Export Awards at the Trianon in Paris.

Cat’s Eyes, a live-action action series adaptation of Tsukasa Hōjō’s cult manga of the same name, won the drama series honor. The show, which Hōjō co-created with French producer Michel Catz, stars Camille Lou, Constance Labbé and Claire Romain as Alexia, Tam and Sylia — three sisters who run a Parisian café by day, and moonlight as notorious art thieves. The series airs on France on TF1 and Amazon Prime Video.

The prize for best-selling French animation series went to Xilam Animation for season 3 of Zig & Sharko, a series of cartoon shorts featuring the attempts of Zig,...

The works of manga creator Tsukasa Hojo have long been popular in France. The anime adaptations of City Hunter and its connected series Cat's Eye both got air time there—as Nicky Larson and Cat's Eyes , respectively. And, much like City Hunter , Cat's Eye is on its way to a French live-action adaptation. Today, we get our first look at the previously announced TV series project! While the release date isn't official yet, TF1 mentioned the show would be released this fall. And as previously mentioned, the 8 episodes will also stream later on Amazon Prime Video. Check out our first look at the upcoming Cat's Eyes TV series: Related: What Makes City Hunter Such a Timeless Show? Alexandre Laurent directs and Michael Catz serves as writer and showrunner for Cat's Eyes , which stars Camille Lou, Constance Labbé and Claire Romain as the Chamade sisters. The series will air on French...

[Editor’s note: This story contains spoilers for the ending of “Starstruck” Season 3.]

Time was that in a romantic comedy, the leads always ended up together.

That’s changed over time as audience and narrative priorities shift, and as television dove deeper into the rom-com game along with film, finding ways to unite, separate, and permute every pairing while filling out hours and hours of story. A lot of sitcoms spin that into classic TV romance; Ross and Rachel, Cory and Topanga, Jess and Nick. In recent years, the trend has skewed toward getting a couple together and keeping them together; Jake and Amy, David and Patrick, Janine and Gregory.

And then there is the Secret Third Thing, the rare and difficult move where a show pairs its lead character or characters off with someone who wasn’t the original plan. Sometimes there are outside factors (“Cheers” comes to mind), while other times it’s simply a more desirable story development.