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TV Around the World

French documentary series (2005–2011) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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TV Around the World (French: Toutes les télés du monde) is a French documentary-magazine[1] series that aired in Arte from 2 April 2005 to 3 September 2011. It explores television from various countries, regions, or minorities and how their history and culture make their programming unique[2] and how it reflects to their communities. The series features behind-the-scenes access to some of the shows featured with interviews from those who worked in them, and talks to television experts and ordinary families who watch the medium.

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The seasons are based from the information on Point du Jour International’s website.[3]

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A cross (†) denotes that the episode aired exclusively on Arte and not distributed outside the channel.

Season 1 (2005)

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Season 2 (2005)

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Season 3 (2006)

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Season 4 (2006–2007)

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Season 7 (2009–2011)

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Broadcast

TV Around the World mainly airs on Saturdays, initially during 10:10am[1] as Arte became a 24/7 channel. For Season 3, it aired on 2:40pm and from Season 4 onwards, it aired on 6:30pm.

International broadcasts

The German-language version, titled Zapping International, is simulcast in Arte's German counterpart during the program's run. Selected episodes of that version also aired in SRF 1 in Switzerland between 2006 and 2007.[11]

In Quebec, the original French-language version airs in TV5 Quebec Canada from January 2011, starting with the episode focusing in Cuban television.[12]

In Australia, SBS aired episodes from the English version's first and second seasons as a ten-part series,[13] with the first episode focusing in Greek television on 3 February 2006[14] before airing the rest in June.

A Brazilian Portuguese dub of the series aired on TV Brasil from 2009 to 2015.[15][16]

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Book

In September 2007, co-creator Vladimir Donn wrote a book based on the series which highlights the programming and their impact to viewers from the countries featured in the documentary. It was published by Arte Editions and Le Seuil.[17] ISBN 978-2020931625

Notes

  1. Apart from the "If I'm a Director of World TV" and "Europe" specials as they ran for 52 minutes.
  2. The Point du Jour website lists this episode as part of Season 2.[6]

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