As this year marks the 50th anniversary of the Angoulême Comic Book Festival, from January 26 to 30, France Télévisions will offer national and regional programming devoted to the 9th art, detailed the public group on Friday, January 6. This completes the workshops, meetings and screenings that the group will organize in Angoulême as well as the presentation, on January 28, of its 4th audience-selection prize.
In addition to the daily current affairs programs and programs dedicated to books, half a dozen entertainment and games programs are planned: Affaire Conclue, Duels en famille, Slam, Questions pour un champion, and Tout le monde veut prendre sa place will include questions and rounds dedicated to comics.
From Monday, January 23, Culturebox will be devoted to the Festival. Among the programs announced, a special issue of Culturebox will be broadcast on Friday, January 27, as well as an unpublished documentary, Angoulême 50 ans de bulles, on the history of the creation of the event in the context of the 1970s. Produced by Morgane Production and Tamara Films, this 52-minute documentary directed by Mathilde Fassin also focuses on the evolution of the Festival which has made the city a world reference on the growing comic book market.
This documentary will also be broadcast, from January 26, on France 3 Nouvelle-Aquitaine, which will offer a second unpublished documentary, Deuxième sexe et 9e art, on the journey of five comic strip creators. Also noteworthy, on Saturday, January 28, a regional broadcast by a journalist from France 3 Poitou-Charentes in duo with her counterpart from France Bleu for a special program, Génération BD.