Draft:TV Around the World

TV Around the World (French: Toutes les télés du monde) is a French documentary–magazine series that aired in Arte from 2 April 2005 to 3 September 2011. It explores television from various countries, regions, or minorities and how their history and culture make their programming unique and how it reflects to their communities. The series features behind-the-scenes access to some of the shows featured with interviews from those who worked and talks to ordinary families who watch television.

Episodes
The seasons are based from the information on Point du Jour International’s website.

Broadcast
TV Around the World mainly airs on Saturdays, intially during 10:10am as Arte became a 24/7 channel. For Season 3, it aired on 2:40pm and from Season 4 onwards, it aired on 6:30pm.

International broadcasts
The German-language version, titled Zapping International, is simulcast in Arte's German counterpart during the program's run. Selected episodes of that version also aired in SRF 1 in Switzerland between 2006 and 2007.

In Quebec, the French-language version airs in TV5 Quebec Canada from January 2011, starting with the episode focusing in Cuban television.

In Australia, SBS aired ten episodes of the English version's first and second seasons during the winter of 2006.

Book
In September 2007, co-creator Vladimir Donn wrote a book based on the series which highlights the programming and their impact to viewers from the countries featured in the documentary. It was published by Arte Editions and Le Seuil. ISBN 978-2020931625