''Ciel, mon mardi !'' was a television
talk show
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hosted by
Christophe Dechavanne
Christophe Dechavanne (; born 23 January 1958), is a French television and radio host
and program producer.
Biography
Dechavanne attended the Cours Hattemer, a private school. He started working as a radio host in the early 1980s. In 1985, he pr ...
, which ran on
French
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television
TF1
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every Tuesday at the beginning of the 1990s.
The title literally means "Heavens, it's my Tuesday!" but is also a wordplay on the more common ''Ciel, mon mari!'' expression, which means "Heavens, it's my husband!", which would have been uttered by a woman caught with another man by her husband.
Dechavanne invited groups of people who hated each other in real life to let them "discuss" their differences. For example, he would invite priests and homosexuals,
Jewish
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groups and neo-Nazis, etc.
French television talk shows
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