Camera Café

Caméra Café
Logo of Caméra Café, French version.
Created by	Bruno Solo Yvan Le Bolloc'h Alain Kappauf
Starring	Bruno Solo Yvan Le Bolloc'h Armelle Chantal Neuwirth
Country of origin	France
Original language(s)	French
No. of episodes	700 (list of episodes)
Production
Producer(s)	Jean-Yves Robin
Camera setup	Single camera
Running time	7 minutes
Release
Original network	M6
Original release	September 2001 – December 2003
External links
Website

Caméra Café is a French-born concept of comedy television series exported around the world. Two movie spin-offs have been made in France under the titles of Espace détente and Le Séminaire. It was originally a French television show created by Bruno Solo, Yvan Le Bolloc'h, and Alain Kappauf and it was broadcast from September 2001 to December 2003 on the M6 channel.

700 episodes of 3 minutes each have been produced and were broadcast again on M6 in 2004. The show revolves around a dysfunctional office. Its originality stems from the fact that, within the fiction, the camera is fixed into the automated coffee machine of the office space.

The title is a French pun on "Caméra Cachée", (literally "hidden camera", or Candid Camera for the related TV show).

Caméra Café has seen great export success, having been adapted in:

The length of an episode varies on the locale. In Quebec, where the shorter format is less prevalent than in France, episodes are 30 minutes long, commercials included (inversely, the Quebec show Un gars, une fille, originally half an hour long, was reduced to 9 minutes in its French version). Italy kept the 7 minute format and Spain chose a four- to six-minute format.