''Bouillon de culture'' was a weekly, cultural,
prime-time
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,
talk show
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on
French television
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created and hosted by
Bernard Pivot
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Biography
Pivot was born in Lyon, the son of two grocers. During Worl ...
. The show ran from January 12, 1991 to June 29, 2001 (407 episodes
[ "'Bouillon de culture': la dernière de Pivot", ''Le Nouvel Observateur'', June 30, 200]
/ref>); it was broadcast on the channel France 2
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Since 3:20 CET on 7 A ...
(which was called "Antenne 2" until 1992). The show originally aired on Sunday evenings, but it was quickly moved to Friday nights, taking the same time-slot as Pivot's previous literary talk show '' Apostrophes'' (1975–1990) which it had replaced. The show covered a wide range of cultural topics, especially literature.
The show had an average of 850,000 weekly viewers (about 11.6% of total viewers).James Lipton
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, the host of the U.S. TV program ''Inside the Actors Studio
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'', to participate with him in answering the Proust Questionnaire
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Proust answered the questionnaire in a confession album—a form of parlor game popular among Victorians. The alb ...
that Pivot had made famous.
Awards
The show won a "7 d'Or
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" for Best Cultural or Artistic show (Meilleure émission culturelle ou artistique) in 1995IMDb
/ref> and 2001.
References
*''Portions of this article are based on the equivalent article from the French Wikipedia
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, retrieved on April 28, 2012.''
External links
Bouillon de culture
on IMDb
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French television talk shows
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