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Telecat
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thumb|right|Téléchat puppets on display at Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) Téléchat is a Franco-Belgian French-language children's television series created by Roland Topor and Henri Xhonneux. The series aired on France 2 as a segment of Récré A2, and ran for 234 episodes between 1983 and 1986. A satire of news broadcasting, the series centers around a TV news program presented by two anthropomorphic puppets—Groucha, a cat, and Lola, an ostrich. Many objects in their studio are also anthropomorphic and have the ability to talk. The series was later rebroadcast on France 5 in the 1990s,
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It is catalogued under topics including 1983 Belgian television series debuts, 1983 French television series debuts and Belgian television shows featuring puppetry.
Its subject is documented across 6 Wikipedia language editions.
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★ 7.9Created by French surrealist artist Roland Topor and director Henri Xhonneux, Telecat is a news show parody hosted by a tomcat named Groucha (who always had his arm in plaster) and an ostrich named Lola. It featured a variety of sentient objects and revolved around the idea that the real-life elementary particles known as gluons were “the souls of objects”.
- Aired
- 1983–1986
- Seasons
- 3 · 234 episodes
- Status
- Ended
- Created by
- Roland Topor, Henri Xhonneux
- Network
- La Une, Antenne 2
- Genres
- Kids, Comedy, Family
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- television series
- Genre
- comedy
- Country of origin
- France
- Original language
- French
- Creator
- Roland Topor
- Duration
- 5
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- original broadcaster
- France 2
- number of seasons
- 3
- number of episodes
- 234
- start time
- 1983-10-03
- publication date
- 1983-09-19
- different from
- home shopping
- end time
- 1986-00-00
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thumb|right|Téléchat puppets on display at Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) Téléchat is a Franco-Belgian French-language children's television series created by Roland Topor and Henri Xhonneux. The series aired on France 2 as a segment of Récré A2, and ran for 234 episodes between 1983 and 1986. A satire of news broadcasting, the series centers around a TV news program presented by two anthropomorphic puppets—Groucha, a cat, and Lola, an ostrich. Many objects in their studio are also anthropomorphic and have the ability to talk. The series was later rebroadcast on France 5 in the 1990s, and on Arte in the 2010s. In Belgium, the series premiered first on RTBF1's Lollipop strand, on 19 September 1983. It also received an English dub under the name of Telecat which aired on TCC in the United Kingdom. Téléchat has received many awards.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Telecat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.