Caméra Café
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| Caméra Café | |
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 Logo of Caméra Café, French version. |
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| Genre | Sitcom |
| Creator(s) | Bruno Solo Yvan Le Bolloc'h Alain Kappauf |
| Starring | Bruno Solo Yvan Le Bolloc'h |
| Country of origin | France |
| Language(s) | French |
| No. of episodes | 700 |
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| Producer(s) | Jean-Yves Robin |
| Camera setup | Single camera |
| Running time | 7 minutes |
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| Original channel | M6 |
| Original run | September 2001 – December 2003 |
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| Official website | |
Caméra Café is a French-born concept of comedy television series exported around the world. A movie spin-off has been made in France under the title of Espace détente. It was originally a French television show created by Bruno Solo, Yvan Le Bolloc'h and Alain Kappauf and broadcast from September 2001 to December 2003 on the M6 channel.
700 episodes of 7 minutes each have been produced and were broadcast again on M6 in 2004. The show revolves around a dysfunctional office. Its originality stems from the fact that, within the fiction, the camera is fixed into the automated coffee machine of the office space.
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[edit] Adaptations
Caméra Café has seen great exportation success, having been adapted in Quebec (2002–), Greece (2002), Italy (2003–), Poland (2004), Spain (2005–) Portugal (2006–), Australia, Flanders, Luxemburg, Réunion, Switzerland, Ukraine and Yugoslavia.[1][2] In Quebec, for example, a typical episode pulls approximately 1,061,000 viewers in a population of seven and a half million people, according to Le Soleil.[3] In Réunion, the show is both in Creole and French, depending on the origins of the characters.[4]
The length of an episode varies on the locale. In Quebec, where the shorter format is less prevalent than in France, episodes are 30 minutes long, commercials included (inversely, the Quebec show Un gars, une fille, originally half an hour long, was reduced to 9 minutes in its French version). Italy kept the 7 minutes format and Spain chose a 45 minutes format.[1]
[edit] Trivia
- A Caméra Café video game came out in 2005.
- The Principal gimmick of this show is that all the scenes are shot from a camera that appears to be located in the cafe machine, just above the space where the cups are served. Hence all the conversations and scenarios are exposed from this point of view.
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Movie links for Caméra café (2001)" on the Internet Movie Database, retrieved on September 10, 2006
- ^ "Dans le monde" on the official French Caméra Café website, retrieved on September 10, 2006
- ^ "Qui formera le nouveau duo de Caméra café ?" by Richard Therrien, Le Soleil, November 3, 2005, retrieved September 9, 2006
- ^ Official website of the Réunion version on the Internet Archive, retrieved from the February 28, 2005 archive
[edit] See also
[edit] General
- List of French television series
- List of Quebec television series
- List of Quebec television series imports and exports
- Culture of France
