C'est pas sorcier

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C'est pas sorcier
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Sabine Quindou, the tv presenter & journalist of the program
Genre Children's television series/Education
Presented by Jamy Gourmaud, Frédéric Courant, Sabine Quindou
Narrated by Valérie Guerlain
Country of originFrance
Original languageFrench
No. of seasons20
No. of episodes599
Production
Executive producerElizabeth Cornali
ProducerPhilippe Molins (delegate)
Production locationVariable
Running time26 minutes
Production companyMultimédia France Productions (France Télévisions)
Original release
Network France 3
ReleaseSeptember 19, 1993 (1993-09-19) 
February 1, 2014 (2014-02-01)

C'est pas sorcier (literally It's Not Sorcery, French for "it's not rocket science") was a popular French live-action, science education television program that originally aired from September 19, 1993, to February 1, 2014. In total, 559 episodes were produced. This program was popular culture, with an audience share of over 30% in France. The episodes continued to be rebroadcast, until at least 2021. Dubbed or subtitled, the program is or has been broadcast in many countries, in Europe (Italy, Finland, Greece via Ellinikí Radiofonía Tileórasi, Poland via Da Vinci Learning, and Portugal), [1] in Asia (Cambodia, China, South Korea, Japan, Laos, Lebanon, Mongolia, Turkey, and Vietnam), and in Africa (Morocco on the channel 2M, Tunisia via Tunisian television 2, Algeria via Canal Algérie and Berbère Télévision) and Mauritius by the national broadcaster.

Contents

In 2015, a new show, l'Esprit Sorcier hosted by Frédéric Courant began airing online, presenting itself as a successor to C'est pas sorcier.

The presenters

In the show, "Sabine" (Sabine Quindou) and "Fred" (Frédéric Courant) work together in the field. They travel around the world, interviewing specialists, and asking questions to "Jamy" (Jamy Gourmaud) who, in his laboratory in the trailer of a truck driven by "Marcel", [2] would answer them using his iconic models and mock-ups. After 2011, he travels to symbolic locations relevant to the topic with a mobile laboratory equipped with touch screens, computer graphics and the models which originally garnered the show much success.

The show is narrated by La petite voix ("The Little Voice", played by Valérie Guerlain) who does not appear physically in the show, but offers off-screen commentary and narration.

Topic

The programs can be classified into six categories:

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References

  1. "Vamos To Descoberta - Infantis e Juvenis". www.rtp.pt. Rádio e Televisão de Portugal. Retrieved 2017-08-07.
  2. C'est pas sorcier -Voyage en 3D sur les traces du Petit Prince