Caméra Café

Caméra Café
Logo of Caméra Café, French version.
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
External links
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").

Adaptations

Caméra Café has seen great export success, having been adapted in:

• Republic of Ireland (2002–2003)
• Quebec (2002–), features a Gender-neutral toilet in the background
• Greece (2002)
• Italy (2003–)
• Poland (2004)
• Spain (2005–2009)
• Portugal (2006–)
• Philippines (2007–2009)^[1]
• Indonesia (2008-)
• Chile (2008)
• Australia
• Flanders
• Luxembourg
• Switzerland/ Belgium (2008-)
• Yugoslavia/Macedonia^[2][3]
• Brazil^[4][5][6]
• La Réunion, the show is both in Créole and French, depending on the origins of the characters.^[7]
• Colombia (2008-)^[8]
• Vietnam (2010-)
• Turkey (2009-)
• Morocco (2010-) the show is both in Darija and French, depending on the characters.
• France (2011-) Camara Café

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]

Episodes

Main article: List of Caméra Café episodes

See also

General

• List of French television series
• List of Quebec television series
• List of Quebec television series imports and exports
• Culture of France

Similar works

• The Office
• Le Bureau
• La Job

References

1. ^ Are local viewers ready for ‘Camera Café’?, Philippine Daily Inquirer, March 2, 2007
2. ^ ^{a b} "Movie links for Caméra café (2001)" on the Internet Movie Database, retrieved on September 10, 2006
3. ^ "Dans le monde", on the official French Caméra Café website, retrieved on September 10, 2006
4. ^ "SBT official site"
5. ^ 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.
6. ^ "Qui formera le nouveau duo de Caméra café ?" by Richard Therrien, Le Soleil, November 3, 2005, retrieved September 9, 2006
7. ^ Official website of the Réunion version on the Internet Archive, retrieved from the February 28, 2005 archive
8. ^ Caracol TV, Cámara Café llega para alegrar nuestras noches, 13 November 2008, retrieved 15 November 2008

External links

• Caméra Café (France) at the Internet Movie Database
• Caméra Café at TV.com
• Caméra Café (Quebec) at the Internet Movie Database
• Official website of the French version
• Official website of the Italian version
• Official website of the Philippine version
• Official website of the Spanish version
• List of all episodes - official streaming