Stéphan Bureau (born July 2, 1964) is a

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, TV interviewer and producer of TV shows and documentary series.

Life and career

Bureau was born in

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. He successfully auditioned at Télévision de Radio-Canada, and became one of the youngest reporters in a TV show dedicated to teenagers. He then began a radio journalism career in 1984 at Radio-Canada while pursuing Russian studies at

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. In 1986, he embarked on a broadcast journalism career as a television newscaster at Télévision Quatre-Saisons (TQS; now V). Between 1990 and 1994, he produced and hosted ''Contact'', a series of in-depth interviews with figures from the artistic, literary and intellectual world such as

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, Nancy Huston,

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. The documentary series, which was broadcast throughout

and in many other countries of Europe and Africa earned him a Rogers Award in English Canada. He has since been on all major French-Canadian television networks, most notably on TVA, where he was at the helm of ''L’événement'', a public affairs magazine, and then on the 10 p.m. televised newscast for the next three years. He later joined the Société Radio-Canada where he served in turn as host, foreign correspondent and chief anchorman of the national newsmagazine ''

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'' from 1998 to 2003. In 2003, Stéphan Bureau chose to retire from the news world and started working on new projects. With the ''Festival Juste pour Rire'' (the French edition of the ''Just for Laughs'' Festival), he created and hosted several tributes to Quebec's comic figures. He also hosted several live interviews with famous comic actors such as

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and

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. In 2006, Stéphan Bureau reinitiated Contact with a new series of 13 episodes. His guests were film and theater director

Franco Dragone Franco Dragone (12 December 1952 – 30 September 2022) was an Italian-born Belgian theatre director. He was the founder and artistic director of Dragone, a creative company specializing in the creation of large-scale theatre shows. According to ...

; novelist Jean d'Ormesson; author and playwright

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; short story writer

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; authors Marek Halter,

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and

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; philosopher, psychoanalyst and feminist Julia Kristeva; lawyer and politician Simone Veil">Julia Kristeva">ith which ...

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