Le Bureau

Le Bureau
The cast of Le Bureau
Genre	Comedy
Created by	Ricky Gervais Stephen Merchant
Directed by	Nicolas Charlet
Starring	François Berléand Xavier Robic Benoît Carré Jérémie Elkaïm Alka-Laure Balbir Frédéric Merlo Jean-Pierre Loustau Astrid Bas Solène Bouton Jacques-Yves Dorges
Country of origin	France
Original language	French
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	6
Production
Running time	26 minutes
Production companies	Capital United Nations Entertainment The Identity Company
Original release
Network	Canal+
Release	25 May (2006-05-25) – 30 June 2006 (2006-06-30)

Le Bureau is a 2006 French television show written and directed by Nicolas & Bruno. It is a French adaptation of the popular British television series The Office. Le Bureau adapted the scripts of the original British series, changing character names and many cultural references.^[1]

Cast

• François Berléand: Gilles Triquet, Regional Director of the Cogirep Villepinte branch. He is based on David Brent.
• Xavier Robic: Félix Pradier, trainee.
• Benoît Carré: Joel Liotard, Assistant to the Regional Director.
• Jérémie Elkaïm: Paul Delorme, Sales Representative.
• Alka-Laure Balbir: Laetitia Kadiri, Receptionist.
• Frédéric Merlo: Daniel Gabarda, Chief Accountant.
• Jean-Pierre Loustau: Didier Leguélec, Representative.
• Astrid Bas: Juliette Lebrac, Manager of Cogirep France.
• Solène Bouton: Jennifer Langlois.
• Jacques-Yves Dorges as Giraud Bernard, Sales Representative.

Summary

It takes place in Villepinte, a business park in the northeast suburbs of Paris.

The series stars François Berléand as Gilles Triquet, France's version of David Brent. Another notable actor, Jérémie Elkaïm of Presque rien fame, also stars in the series playing the French version of Tim Canterbury.

Filming with the French cast was completed in early February; the series began airing on 25 May 2006.

It is the first foreign-language remake of the show, although the German series Stromberg used The Office as a basis for its show format. A dubbed version of the first UK series that ran on cable in France in 2004 fared poorly.^{[clarification needed]}

Season schedule

Home release

The DVD was released on 28 August 2006.

See also

• The Office
• List of French adaptations of television series from other countries

References

External links

• Le Bureau at IMDb
• Canal Plus - Le Bureau
• Pravda - 'The Office' becomes 'Le Bureau'^{[permanent dead link]}
• Guardian Unlimited - From Slough to Villepinte: it's Le Bureau
• Guardian Unlimited - 'Vulgar, bigoted, cynical': France warms to Le Bureau
• Cogirep
• FT.com Je vous presente... le David Brent francais
• Times Online - The Office, version française

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