Name: Club Dorothée
Genre: Family
Released: 1987-09-02
Rating: 7.4
Cast: Dorothée, Ariane Carletti, Jacky Jakubowicz

Club Dorothée was the greatest kids show on earth. Not only was it the vehicle for the love towards manga in the Benelux and France, it's production house also co-created/financed some of the most iconic ones.

It was on the ear 7 days a week and on it's highest point had over 26 hours of the weekly airtime (over 40 hours during school holidays) and reached up to 86% of general audience in France. Those are still world records.

They were not scared of serious items and catered for all young audiences from 8 to 18, boys and girls. They treated kids like young adults and remain loved to this day. When they did a 30th aniversary show no one realised just how big their show still meant for so many people after that many decades. When Ariane and Jacky died the world stopped in France and Belgium for a few hours.

AB productions were so crazy with this show that the entire studio and sets were built around this show with interior and exterior sets and they even added a real house on the roof that was used to shoot the first french teen sitcom Héléne et le garçons. Even the biggest US tv producers didn't go this far for one show and if they wouldn't have started their own TV channels the show would have continued a good few years more. This is one of the few shows on earth that has memories for young GenX and older Millenials alike. And each sunday it was PPPC (Pas de Pietié pour les Croisants or No Mercy For the Croisants) in which they did scetches around a theme but also improv as most was broadcast live. For 10 years they were on tv every single day, their holidays were broadcast from wherever they were, even China allowed them to do live daily broadcasts, which was no mean feature in the 80's and 90's. On many levels this show still holds the highest bar of childrens entertainment and it will probably never be surpassed, neither in reach nor production value or airtime. It's the Riverdance of children's television!

There is also a link between Club Dorothée and the original Final Destination movie. Final Destination is inspired by flight TWA800 and the group of students that was lost. But as Club Dorothée finished their special summer holiday shows from the USA they were scheduled on flight TWA800 but at the last minute the producer insisted to change flights as TWA800 was a non smoking flight. So at the 11th hour the whole team and crew were put on a flight that allowed smoking and as such escaped the disaster. (A few claim that the delay of flight TWA800 was due to this incident as the lugage was already checked in and had to be redirected, though no real proof has ever been brought forward to this claim.) Yet it was part of the inspiration for Final Destination as the team "escaped" the disaster.

French-language cinema, whether in France, Québec, or other Francophone regions, explores cultural identity, social change, and the tension between the individual and society. French cinema is not only celebrated for its intellectual experimentation and auteur traditions, but also its success in mainstream comedy, romance, and commercial entertainment. In Québec, films often focus on questions of language, belonging, and community within a distinct cultural landscape.

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The family genre features stories specifically created to be suitable for a wide range of age groups within a family. Family-oriented content is designed to be enjoyed by both children and adults, often providing entertainment that is wholesome, relatable, and appropriate for all members of a family to watch or experience together.

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Hosted by Dorothée, the Club Dorothée offers us every week, skits, songs and chronic offered to children between each cartoon.

Ariane Carletti, Dorothée, Jacky Jakubowicz, Patrick Simpson Jones, and François Corbier in Club Dorothée (1987)

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Ariane Carletti, Dorothée, Jacky Jakubowicz, and François Corbier in Club Dorothée (1987)

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Ariane Carletti, Dorothée, and Bernard Wantier in Club Dorothée (1987)

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