
Christophe Dechavanne
Actor · b. 1958 · Paris, France
Christophe Dechavanne (born 23 January 1958) is a French television and radio host and program producer. He is the host of La Roue de la fortune. Dechavanne attended the Cours Hattemer, a private school. He started working as a radio host in the early 1980s. In 1985, he presented the daily talk-show C'est encore mieux l'après-midi on the state-owned television channel Antenne 2. In 1987, he went to work for the newly privatized channel TF1: his first show, Panique sur le 16, was not a success, but he soon found his niche with the late-night weekly talk-show Ciel mon mardi!, a program which could be compared to Jerry Springer productions in United States. Dechavanne's energetic public persona and the frequent heated arguments between his guests proved popular among audiences, despite attracting criticism from several French media outlets. Dechavanne became his own producer in 1989, by creating the company Coyote productions. From 1992 to 1994, Dechavanne presented the popular daily talk-show Coucou c'est nous!. However, he was less successful with the prime-time show Tout le toutim, which was stopped after four weeks for lack of sufficient audience shares. In 1997, he went back to state-owned television channels and presented Télé Qua Non and Du fer dans les épinards on France 2. He was then absent from television for several years and concentrated on his radio work for RTL and Europe 1. In 2003, he took part on TF1 to Nice People, a French equivalent of sorts to Celebrity Big Brother, where common people and celebrities were locked in a house. He was then the host of La Ferme Célébrités in 2004 and 2005. Currently, Dechavanne hosts the French version of Wheel of Fortune, entitled La Roue de la fortune and presents special shows on a regular basis. He was in a relationship with Elena Foïs (2019-2023), twenty-two years younger than him, sister of french actress Marina Foïs. In 2025, he was convicted of speeding under the influence of drugs (cocaine). His lawyer appealed the sentence, wich he considers too harsh. He is left-wing like many in show business. Source: Article "Christophe Dechavanne" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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TV5.7Talk ShowSacrée soirée
1987 · 5 votes
TV6.8Talk ShowChamps-Elysées
1982 · 9 votes
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Le Grand Échiquier
1972 · 3 votes
TV5.0Talk ShowFour LEGEND episodes every week. Whether famous or not, LEGEND gives a voice to anyone with an extraordinary life story to share. Tune in each week for four new podcast interviews. Catch our interviews and reports every Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday at 11 a.m., as well as our LEGEND STORY format at the same time on Tuesdays.
LEGEND
2023 · 2 votes
TV7.2ComedyFamilyCoucou c'est nous !
1992 · 2 votes
TV4.4Talk ShowVendredi, tout est permis
2011 · 5 votes
TV5.0Talk ShowTalk show hosted by Léa Salamé, featuring incisive, funny, and surprising personalities debating current events in culture, society, politics, and the media. The set is designed as an arena where artists, polemicists, intellectuals, politicians, top athletes, and powerful figures come together. Permanent guest Christophe Dechavanne can intervene at any time during the show. Comedian Philippe Caverivière is also present with a segment dedicated to the political week and another devoted to celebrity news and social media.
Quelle époque !
2022 · 2 votes
TV6.1CrimeDramaBeneath her eccentric appearance, Captain Marleau is a formidable detective. Her Sherlock Holmes deerstalker cap, her character, her unusual appearance, her humor, her unpredictable behavior--Captain Marleau is not your average gendarme. She never rushes an investigation; she becomes the investigation and relentlessly pursues the suspects.
Capitaine Marleau
2015 · 37 votes
TV8.6ComedyTalk ShowLes Nuls, l'émission
1990 · 6 votes
TV6.2RealityStars 90
1990 · 2 votes
TV9.0Talk ShowIn each episode, 3 celebrities who have never met go on a 24-hour break in the countryside. A moment out of time to meet and talk about love, friendship, life with its obstacles and surprises.
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The program combines comedy, celebrity, musical guests, and human-interest stories.
Amanda
2016
TV6.3RealityDocumentaryTop Gear France is a french TV show on cars, based on the english original tv show Top Gear. IT is shwon on TNT RMC Découverte and will be hosted by the french actor Philippe Lellouche, the professional racing driver Bruce Jouanny and EDM musician and journalist Yann Larret-Menezo.
Top Gear France
2015 · 10 votes
TV4.6RealityStarting with easy multiple-choice questions that gradually get more challenging, contestants have only their wits and three lifeline chances to see them through to the grand prize of one million euros
TV7.2ComedyLa Cape et l'épée
2000 · 6 votes
TV5.3RealityFamilyFrench adaptation of the popular American game show.
Une Famille en Or
1986 · 3 votes
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La Roue de la fortune was the French version of the popular US game show Wheel of Fortune. It was hosted by Christophe Dechavanne and Victoria Silvstedt and then by Benjamin Castaldi and 2008's Miss France, Valérie Bègue in early 2012. It aired on French television network TF1. This incarnation began in 2006 and ended in March 2012; the first ran in the late 1980s to the mid-1990s, also on TF1.
La Roue de la fortune
1987 · 3 votes
TV6.8FamilyTalk ShowLes 100 plus grands...
2003 · 4 votes
TV3.0The Wall : Face au mur
2017 · 1 votes
TV7.8DocumentaryLa Télé des années 80 : Les Dix Ans qui ont tout changé
2018 · 3 votes
TV6.2DocumentaryLa Télé des années 90
2019 · 4 votes
TV8.0RealityÀ l'état sauvage
2016 · 1 votes
Movies8
Movie5.6ComedyRomanceAt 55, Gabrielle, a brilliant scientist who has just been laid off, decides to take her life back into her own hands: she wants to have a child! Her mother, Rose—eccentric and kind-hearted—enthusiastically gets involved in helping her find the “perfect sperm.” That’s when Gaby meets Pierre, 58, a charming man in crisis, and Max, 26, his son, who’s searching for a father rather than a pal. Between desire, taboos, and pretenses, each finds themselves confronted with their own contradictions. A tender, sharp, and deeply human comedy. Because, in the end, everything is always possible.
Toujours possible
2025 · 5 votes
Movie3.8ComedyTV MovieLiliane and Maud are twin sisters. The first is a modest provincial hairdresser while the second leads the great life in Paris. They both fight over their mother's custody.
I Love You Coiffure
2020 · 24 votes
Movie7.3ComedyGad Elmaleh - 20 ans de scène !
2015 · 27 votes
Movie8.0DocumentaryA documentary about the recording of the charity song "Live for Love United", featuring some of the biggest football (soccer) stars of the time.
Live for Love United
2002 · 1 votes
Movie5.3DocumentaryHistoryA four-hour journey through the first ten years of Les Guignols. Cult sequences, historic sketches, reference expressions... offer sixty or so “Guignolized” personalities the opportunity to analyze the phenomenon or react to their puppets. Their impressions, shared with Gilles Verlant, punctuate the Night. All those who have made Les Guignols what they are today - Alain De Greef, the historical authors, puppet creator Alain Duverne, etc. - take the opportunity to reveal a few of their secrets.
Les Guignols, les 10 premières années
1999 · 3 votes
Movie7.5DocumentaryComedyChristophe Dechavanne recounts the provocative, scandalous, and irreverent television of the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, which he experienced from the inside. From political programs to talk shows, entertainment to news programs, no genre escaped its sometimes provoked, often unexpected missteps, which amused, shocked, and even upset the public. Thanks to the testimonies of Léa Salamé, Michèle Cotta, Marie-Laure Augry, Enora Malagré, Patrice Carmouze, Alain Bougrain-Dubourg, Michel Field, Benjamin Castaldi, Eric Naulleau, and Marc-Olivier Fogiel, this documentary takes us behind the scenes of these cult sequences of French television.
Quand la télé dérape, 40 ans de scandales
2024 · 2 votes
Movie5.0ComedyCrimeReleased for good behavior after five years in prison, Marcel Jacquin, a former robber, is welcomed by his granddaughter, Justine. His son, a police officer, has not shown him any sign of life since he was arrested. The grandfather will return to service, but this time, for a good cause, according to Justine. A medical student, a young man needs his grandfather's talents to break into the safe of a pharmaceutical laboratory that he suspects of culpable embezzlement. Justine wants to prove that the laboratory is testing, completely illegally, an experimental vaccine on the civilian populations of an African state at war. The evidence is kept in the safe, and whoever says forced safe necessarily says Marcel...
Braquage en famille
2008 · 4 votes
Movie3.5ComedyRomanceHubert et le Chien
2007 · 6 votes