TV series

Apostrophes

Name: Apostrophes
Released: 1975
Cast: Bernard Pivot

1975–1990· 16 seasons· 70 min episodes★ 8.5Ended

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Synopsis

Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television (around 6 million regular viewers). It was broadcast on Friday nights on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" from 1975 to 1992). The hourlong show was devoted to books, authors and literature. The format varied between one-on-one interviews with a single author and open discussions between four or five authors.

Themes

literature book review

Episodes

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E1 Episode 1Next upJan 10, 1975 · 55 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Charles Libman (Self), Emile Pollak (Self), René Floriot (Self), Paul Lefèvre (Self)
E2 Episode 2Jan 17, 1975 · 66 min
E3 Episode 3Jan 24, 1975 · 60 min
E4 Episode 4Jan 31, 1975 · 70 min
E5 Episode 5Feb 7, 1975 · 63 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Jean-Pierre Bernard (Self), Jacques Brenner (Self), Max Gallo (Self), Gilles Lapouge (Self), François Mitterrand (Self)
E6 Episode 6Feb 14, 1975 · 62 min
E7 Episode 7Feb 21, 1975 · 67 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Max Gallo (Self), Gilles Lapouge (Self), Dominique Desanti (Self)
E8 Episode 8Feb 28, 1975 · 66 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Gilles Lapouge (Self), Hervé Bazin (Self), Françoise Giroud (Self), Micheline Presle (Self)
E9 Episode 9Mar 7, 1975 · 74 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Gilles Lapouge (Self), Saul Friedländer (Self)
E10 Episode 10Mar 14, 1975 · 77 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Marcel Bigeard (Self), Georges Brassens (Self), Bernard Clavel (Self), Charles Hernu (Self)
E11 Episode 11Mar 21, 1975 · 67 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Gilles Lapouge (Self), Alexandre Astruc (Self), Jean-Louis Bory (Self), François Chalais (Self), Mary Marquet (Self), Pierre Tchernia (Self)
E12 Episode 12Mar 28, 1975 · 60 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Raymond Leopold Bruckberger (Self), Jacques Duquesne (Self)
E13 Episode 13Apr 4, 1975 · 68 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Gilles Lapouge (Self), Jean Cau (Self), Jean Dutourd (Self), Philippe Labro (Self), Gilbert Prouteau (Self), Jean-François Revel (Self)
E14 Episode 14Apr 11, 1975 · 85 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Gilles Lapouge (Self), Jean d'Ormesson (Self), Pierre Daix (Self), Jean Daniel (Self), Georges Nivat (Self), Alexandr Solzhenitsyn (Self)
E15 Episode 15Apr 18, 1975 · 65 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Michel Audiard (Self), Alphonse Boudard (Self), Frédéric Dard (Self), Auguste Le Breton (Self)
E16 Episode 16Apr 25, 1975 · 63 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Arlette Laguiller (Self), Gérard Rosenthal (Self), David Rousset (Self), Jean Rabaut (Self), Jean Elleinstein (Self)
E17 Episode 17May 2, 1975 · 67 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Michel Butor (Self), Robert Laffont (Self), Raoul Mille (Self), Louis Nucéra (Self), Michel Tournier (Self), Jacques Médecin (Self), Paul Granet (Self), André Rimayot (Self)
E18 Episode 18May 9, 1975 · 69 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Gilles Lapouge (Self), Alexandre Minkowski (Self)
E19 Episode 19May 16, 1975 · 71 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Gilles Lapouge (Self), Angela Davis (Self)
E20 Episode 20May 23, 1975 · 67 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Gilles Lapouge (Self)
E21 Episode 21May 30, 1975 · 62 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Gilles Lapouge (Self), Vladimir Nabokov (Self)
E22 Episode 22Jun 6, 1975 · 67 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Larry Collins (Self), Dominique LaPierre (Self)
E23 Episode 23Jun 13, 1975 · 67 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Gilles Lapouge (Self), Jean Freustié (Self), Romain Gary (Self), Michel Meignant (Self), Jacques Laurent (Self)
E24 Episode 24Jun 20, 1975 · 65 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Gilles Lapouge (Self), Roger Errera (Self), Gerald Messadié (Self), Bernard Thomas (Self)
E25 Episode 25Jun 27, 1975 · 65 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Gilles Lapouge (Self), Henri Amouroux (Self), Marcel Carné (Self), Pierre Seghers (Self), Hervé le Boterf (Self), Maurice Toesca (Self)
E26 Episode 26Jul 4, 1975 · 82 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Edmonde Charles-Roux (Self), Pierre Salinger (Self), Jacques Sallebert (Self), Jean Rocchi (Self)
E27 Episode 27Jul 11, 1975 · 70 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Gilles Lapouge (Self), Jean-François Deniau (Self), Henri Queffélec (Self), Jacques Sternberg (Self), Michel Mohrt (Self), Jean-Olivier Héron (Self)
E28 Episode 28Sep 12, 1975 · 66 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Gabriel Matzneff (Self), Christiane Rochefort (Self), Rémy Chauvin (Self), Jeanne Délais (Self), Daniel Thibon (Self)
E29 Episode 29Sep 19, 1975 · 71 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Gilles Lapouge (Self), Régis Debray (Self), Jean-Paul Dollé (Self), Olivier Todd (Self), Raymond Abellio (Self), Natacha Michel (Self), Hubert Juin (Self)
E30 Episode 30Sep 26, 1975 · 67 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Gilles Perrault (Self), Henri Noguères (Self), Albert Ouzoulias (Self), Claude Bellanger (Self)
E31 Episode 31Oct 3, 1975 · 66 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Gilles Lapouge (Self), Maurice Clavel (Self), Michel Clevenot (Self), Jean Guichard (Self), Georges Suffert (Self)
E32 Episode 32Oct 10, 1975 · 64 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Jean-Edern Hallier (Self), Fernand de Saint-Simon (Self), François de Negroni (Self), Willy de Spens (Self), Ghislain de Diesbach (Self)
E33 Episode 33Oct 17, 1975 · 76 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Gilles Lapouge (Self), Pierre Juquin (Self), Eric Losfeld (Self), Louis Casamayor (Self), Michel Drancourt (Self)
E34 Episode 34Oct 24, 1975 · 71 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Jacques Chaban-Delmas (Self), Kléber Haedens (Self), André Frossard (Self)
E35 Episode 35Oct 31, 1975 · 65 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Jean Ziegler (Self), Louis-Vincent Thomas (Self), Jean Baechler (Self), Philippe Aries (Self), Odette Thibault (Self)
E36 Episode 36Nov 7, 1975 · 68 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Muriel Cerf (Self), Hélène Cixous (Self), Arianna Huffington (Self), Kate Millett (Self)
E37 Episode 37Nov 14, 1975 · 68 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Claude Neuschwander (Self), Jean Chenevier (Self), Georges Montaron (Self)
E38 Episode 38Nov 28, 1975 · 69 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Jean-Pierre Adam (Self), Maurice Chatelain (Self), Francis Mazières (Self), Christine Dequerlor (Self)
E39 Episode 39Dec 5, 1975 · 67 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Pierre-Jakez Hélias (Self), Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (Self), Claude Michelet (Self), Georges Duby (Self)
E40 Episode 40Dec 12, 1975 · 73 min
Guest stars
Guest stars: Lucien Bodard (Self), Edgar Faure (Self), Han Suyin (Self)