Les Guignols de l'info: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Les Guignols de l'info (literally "The News Puppets"), sometimes simply called Les Guignols (Puppets), is a satirical French television show of puppets, broadcasted since August 29, 1988 on the channel Canal+. A parody of a newscast, the show is a caricature of the political world, the media, personalities or more generally of French society and the current world. Originally created to compensate for the shutdown of the "JTN des Nuls", the show was part of an idea by Alain De Greef who wanted a French equivalent of "Spitting Image". Les Guignols de l'info have an important place in French popular culture: the repetitive nature of quotations and stereotypes of puppets have made the features of caricature more popular than the person himself.

Series details

• Title: Les Guignols de l'info
• Format: Scripted
• Language: French
• Genres: Comedy
• Premiere date: 2013-08-26
• Final broadcast date listed: 2018-06-22
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: Canal+
• Network country: France
• TVMaze ID: 90113
• IMDb ID: tt0173553
• TVDB ID: 82320

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 26: premiered 2013-08-26; final listed air date 2014-07-11.
• Season 27: premiered 2014-08-25; final listed air date 2015-06-25.
• Season 28: premiered 2015-12-14; final listed air date 2016-06-22.
• Season 29: premiered 2016-09-05; final listed air date 2017-06-30.
• Season 30: premiered 2017-09-04; final listed air date 2018-06-22.

Source and licence

Adapted from Les Guignols de l'info on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.