Cash Investigation

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Cash Investigation
Logo cash investigation.jpeg
Original broadcast logo
GenreNewsmagazine [1]
Presented by Élise Lucet
Narrated byJean-Pierre Canet
Theme music composer Raphaël Elig
Country of originFrance
Original languageFrench
No. of seasons10
No. of episodes54
Production
ProducersLuc Hermann, Paul Moreira
Editors
  • 2012–2013
    Élise Lucet, Laurent Richard, Jean-Pierre Canet
  • 2012–2013
    Élise Lucet, Jean-Pierre Canet
  • 2012–2013
    Élise Lucet, Benoît Bringer
  • 2012–2013
    Élise Lucet,Laurent Richard, Jean-Pierre Canet
  • 2012–2013
    Élise Lucet, Jean-Pierre Canet
  • 2012–2013
    Élise Lucet, Benoît Bringer.
Running time90 minutes (seasons 1 & 2)
120 minutes starting season 3)
Production companyPremières Lignes
Original release
NetworkFrance 2

This article is a partial translation of the Cash investigation article on the French Wikipedia. The image and some of the information it contains were drawn from there.

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Cash Investigation is a French television news show. It produces investigative reports in the financial and business space. The investigations cover subjects such as greenwashing, neuromarketing and child labor. They also take on the diversion of public funds, tax evasion, lobbyist influence, conflicts of interest and information manipulation by spin doctors.

Put out by the Premières Lignes (Front Lines) production group, [1] Luc Hermann and veteran journalist Paul Moreira, the broadcast operates in the tradition of such investigation news shows as 60 Minutes , Panorama , Frontline and Enquête (Inquiry).

Premières Lignes Prizes

Prix de l'investigation DIG Awards

Broadcasts

Each episode of season 1 (in 2012) also contained, in its second half, a portrait of a whistleblower.

When the broadcast faced cancellation [ when? ], [2] viewers organized an online petition demanding its reinstatement. [3] The show returned in June 2013. [4]

Season 2 had five episodes. The report on tax evasion, broadcast in primetime following the Cahuzac scandal, was a critical and audience success.

In season 3 the show broadcast regularly in primetime on Tuesday evenings. [5]

In July 2015, Premières Lignes put the program's broadcasts online on YouTube. [6] [7]

In season 3, the team for the first time produced an investigation specifically designed for the internet. Broadcast on Francetvinfo.fr, Ces entreprises qui vendent des systèmes de sécurité aux pires dictatures de la planète (These organizations that sell security systems to the worst dictatorships on the planet) completed the investigation outlined on the Business de la peur (The Business of Fear), broadcast of September 21, 2015.

France 2 ordered a fourth season from Premières Lignes, with the first numbers due to be broadcast in 2016.

Cash Investigation episodes are available online for a month after broadcast at pluzz.fr [8]

Season 1 (2012)

NumberDateTitleDirectorSubject, comments
1May 18, 2012« Toxic fringues  »
("Toxic Togs") [9] 		Marie MauriceLow cost clothing, (Zara, Inditex)
Globalization
Child labor
Portrait: Erin Brockovich.
2June 1, 2012« La mort programmée de nos appareils »
(The Programmed Death of our Devices) [10] 		Anna Salzberg
Wandrille Lanos		 Programmed obsolescence
Salt
Portrait: researcher Pierre Mèneton. [11]
3June 8, 2012« La finance folle »
(Insane Finance) [12] 		Irène Bénéfice
Olivier Toscer		 High-frequency trading
Poly Implant Prothèse breast implants, with Richard Abs.
4June 15, 2012« Gavés de sucre  »
("Gorged on Sugar") [13] 		Edouard Perrin
Jean-Baptiste Renaud		The sugar industry in France
Portrait: Pablo Fajardo.
5May 11, 2012« Paradis fiscaux: les petits secrets des grandes entreprises »
(Tax havens: The Little Secrets of Big Business) [14] 		Edouard Perrin Tax evasion
Portrait: The Yes Men.
6May 4, 2012« Marketing vert : le grand maquillage » [15] Jean-Pierre Canet
Martin Boudot		Greenwashing
World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
Areva
Portrait: Jeffrey Wigand.
7April 27, 2012« Les vendeurs de maladies »
(The Sellers of Illness) [16] 		Laurent Richard
Wandrille Lanos		 Pharmaceutical industry
Portrait: Shanti Senthikuma.
8May 25, 2012«  Neuromarketing  : votre cerveau les intéresse »
(Neuromarketing: Your Brain Interests Them) [17] 		Benoît Bringer Neuromarketing, SNCF, L'Oréal, plus the merchandizing of water (with Jean-Luc Touly).

Season 2 (2013)

NumberDateTimeTitleDirectorSubject, commentAudienceAudience share
1Tuesday
June 11, 2013		20h45« Le scandale de l'évasion fiscale : révélations sur les milliards qui nous manquent »
("The scandal of Tax Evasion: Revelations on the Billions We Are Missing") [18] [19] 		Valentine Oberti, Wandrille Lanos and Edouard Perrin Taxes
Tax evasion 		3.6 million [20] 14.7%
2Wednesday
September 11, 2013		22h15« Foot business : enquête sur une omerta  »
("Foot business: Investigation into a Code of Silence") [21] 		Martin BoudotEconomics of soccer1.4
million [22] 		9.7%
3Wednesday
September 18, 2013		22h30« Les récoltes de la honte »
(The Harvests of Shame")		Wandrille Lanos Grande distribution, Corruption, Human trafficking 1.3 million [23] 9.7%
4Wednesday
September 25, 2013		22h35« Diesel : la dangereuse exception française »
("Diesel, the Dangerous French Exception")		Edouard Perrin Diesel, Filtre à particules, Health 1.07
million [24] 		9.5%
5Wednesday
October 2, 2013		22h35« Formation professionnelle, le grand détournement »
("Professional Training, the Big Detour") [25] [26] 		Benoît Bringer Continuing education, financement des syndicats1.4
million [27] 		12.1%

Season 3 (2014-2015)

NumberDateTimeTitleDirectorSubject, commentAudienceAudience
Share
1Tuesday
October 7, 2014		20h50« Industrie du tabac : la grande manipulation »Laurent Richard European Parliament
Cigarettes
Lobbying
French government 		2.5
million [28] 		10%
2Tuesday
November 4, 2014		20h50« Les secrets inavouables de nos téléphones portables » [29] Martin Boudot with Jules Giraudat Smartphone
Nokia
Apple
Samsung
Huawei
China 		3.6
million [30] 		14.7%
3Tuesday
March 3, 2015		20h50« Quand les actionnaires s'en prennent à vos emplois » [31] Edouard Perrin Sanofi
Samsonite
(Bain Capital)
Pages-Jaunes
3.2
million [32]

Season 4 (2015-2016)

NumberDateTimeTitleDirectorSubject, commentAudienceAudience share
1Monday
September 7, 2015		23h05« Mon président est en voyage d'affaires »Laurent Richard French foreign policy, Diplomacy, Human rights 1,100,000 [33] 15.1 %
2Monday
September 14, 2015		23h05« Santé: la loi du marché » [34] Sylvain Louvet Fee for service, Prescriptions, Social security, Pharmaceutical industry, Pharmaceutical lobby 1,100,000 [35] 13.7 %
3Monday
September 25, 2015		23h05« Le business de la peur » [36] Jean-Pierre Canet National security, biometric authentication, Identity theft, computer security, video surveillance, Parafe 1,084,00013.5 %
4October 6, 201520h55« Marketing : les stratégies secrètes » [37] Wandrille LanosSale of personal data (collected through telemarketing, digital footprint, loyalty cards), targeted advertising. iPhone. [38] Danone. [39] 2,866,000 [40] 12.2 %
5February 2, 201620h55« Produits chimiques, nos enfants en danger »Martin Boudot Pesticides, cancers, congenital disorders, multinational corporations 3,120,00013.2 %
6March 22, 201620h55« Salariés à prix cassés : le grand scandale »Sophie le Gall Posted Workers, Bouygues, SNCF Geodis 2,570,00012.1 %
7April 5, 201620h55« Paradis fiscaux : le casse du siècle »Benoît Bringer Shell corporation, tax noncompliance, Panama Papers 3,568,00017.1 %
8May 24, 201620h55« Climat : le grand bluff des multinationales »Jean-Baptiste Renaud Carbon emission trading, Engie, Total S.A., LafargeHolcim, greenwashing 2,659,00012.4 %
9June 27, 201622h40« Dopage : ça roule toujours »Sophie le Gall Doping in sport, athlete, Bernard Sainz 1,051,0007.6 %

Season 5 (2016-2017)

NumberDateTimeTitleDirectorSubject, commentAudienceAudience share
1September 13, 201620h55« Industrie agro-alimentaire : business contre santé »Sandrine Rigaud Nitrite, nutrition facts label, ANIA2,764,00013.3 %
2October 18, 201620h55« Marchés publics : le grand dérapage »Loïc Tanant, Nolwenn Le Fustec Public–private partnership, Microsoft, Pôle emploi 2,901,00013.5 %
3January 24, 201720h55« Razzia sur le bois, les promesses en kit des géants du meuble »Marie Maurice IKEA, deforestation in Romania, Asia Pulp & Paper, PEFC, Holzindustrie Schweighofer 3,130,00013.6 %
4February 28, 201723h00« Cash Impact : les nouvelles révélations des Panama Papers »Benoît Bringer Panama papers 714,00010.1 %
5March 21, 201620h50« Pédophilie dans l'Église : le poids du silence »Martin Boudot Pedophilia, priest, Catholic Church 2,175,0009.8 %

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