[1][2] The show premiered on TF1's TFOU on 6 November 2016,[3] and is billed as the "first travelling detective comedy".
[5] [6] Mirette Investigates was one of the projects pitched at the European animation event Cartoon Forum in 2013.
[5] The show was sold to TF1 and Canal+ (France), TV3 (Catalonia), WDR (Germany), Teletoon+ (Poland), Sveriges Television (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] 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.