TV Around the World
TV Around the World 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 in them, and talks to television experts and ordinary families who watch the medium.
Episodes
The seasons are based from the information on Point du Jour International's website.; Key
A cross denotes that the episode aired exclusively on Arte and not distributed outside the channel.
Season 1 (2005)
Season 2 (2005)
Season 3 (2006)
Season 4 (2006–2007)
Season 5 (2007–2008)
Season 6 (2008–2009)
Season 7 (2009–2011)
Broadcast
TV Around the World mainly airs on Saturdays, initially 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 original French-language version airs in TV5 Quebec Canada from January 2011, starting with the episode focusing in Cuban television.
In Australia, SBS aired episodes from the English version's first and second seasons as a ten-part series, with the first episode focusing in Greek television on 3 February 2006 before airing the rest in June.
A Brazilian Portuguese dub of the series aired on TV Brasil from 2009 to 2015.