| Caméra Café | |
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Logo of Caméra Café, French version. |
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| Format | Sitcom |
| Created by | 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 (List of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Jean-Yves Robin |
| Camera setup | Single camera |
| Running time | 7 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | M6 |
| Original run | September 2001 – December 2003 |
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| 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 3 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.
The title is a French pun on "Caméra Cachée", (literally "hidden camera").
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Caméra Café has seen great export success, having been adapted in:
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 minute format and Spain chose a 45 minute format.[2]