Bouillon de culture was a weekly, cultural, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot.
The show ran from January 12, 1991 to June 29, 2001 (407 episodes[1]); it was broadcast on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" until 1992).
The show originally aired on Sunday evenings, but it was quickly moved to Friday nights, taking the same time-slot as Pivot's previous literary talk show Apostrophes (1975–1990) which it had replaced.
The show covered a wide range of cultural topics, especially literature.
Among the guests invited for the series finale, Pivot invited James Lipton, the host of the U.S. TV program Inside the Actors Studio, to participate with him in answering the Proust Questionnaire that Pivot had made famous.