The live science program Scope, launched last July by Arte on its Twitch channel (Satellifacts, June 25, 2022), returns on Wednesday March 8 from 7 p.m. to 9:30 pm with a third episode on the sarcophagi of Notre Dame as well as other vestiges found during the preventive archaeological excavations prescribed by the Drac Ile-de-France at the crossroads of the transept of the cathedral, indicated the channel, Friday March 3.
The Scope team, led by videographers Marie Treibert and Valentine Delattre, will visit the research center of the National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (Inrap), whose archaeologists will tell about the scientific quest that has been underway for several months in several countries to unlock the mysteries of these discoveries. The archaeologist Christophe Besnier, responsible for the excavations of the crossing of the transept, and the author videographer Patrick Baud will be the guests of the set. Videographer Pierre Girard, special correspondent for the show at an Inrap archaeological research center in the Paris region, will be accompanied by Dorothée Chaoui-Derieux, chief heritage curator at Drac Ile-de-France, the archaeologist Hélène Civalleri and anthropologist Camille Colonna. They will explain "the meticulous analysis work carried out by the archaeologists, the 3D reconstructions and the photogrammetry techniques", specifies the press release.
The channel's Twitch community will also be able to see images of the discovery of the sarcophagi and the medieval rood screen from the documentary series Notre-Dame de Paris, le chantier du siècle (Notre Dame the construction site of the century) by Vincent Amouroux, broadcast in prime time on Saturday March 4 and available on arte.tv until May 2.
Scope, 2nd record on the Arte Twitch channel behind Jour de Play
This program on the sarcophagi of Notre-Dame will be the third part of Scope. The first issue was offered on July 12 from 3:45 p.m. and made it possible to decipher the first images of the James Webb telescope live from NASA. Without being highlighted by the Twitch platform, it had brought together an average of 1,000 spectators, according to figures communicated by Arte to Satellifacts.
The second issue was broadcast on Monday, November 28 from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. with Alain Aspect, Nobel Prize in Physics 2022. The broadcast of the show, which had benefited from a promotion from the platform, brought together an average of 7,500 simultaneous spectators, which was the second historical record for the Twitch channel of Arte, the record being held by the special issue of Jour de Play magazine on the occasion of Game Jam 2023, which took place from January 6 to 8 (Satellifacts, January 9). This second issue of Scope enabled Arte's Twitch channel to gain 916 followers, the channel's third historic gain. With 145,000 unique viewers in total, its stream was the third most viewed in France that evening, behind the Lestream and Mynthos channels, specifies Arte.
A next issue of Scope should be held at the end of March in response to the publication of the next 6th IPCC assessment report, scheduled for March 20.