


Le Grand Échiquier is a French variety television program created and presented by Jacques Chancel. It aired at 8:30 pm on the first channel of the ORTF from January 12, 1972 to July 12, 1972, then on the second color channel of the ORTF from September 1972 to December 1974, and finally on Antenne 2 from January 1975 to December 21, 1989. The program returned to France 2 on December 20, 2018 and is hosted by Anne-Sophie Lapix.



The Cordier fight in family against the crime: the father is police captain, the son, investigating judge and the girl, a journalist.


Cynical private detective Nestor Burma investigating murders, missing persons, kidnapping and extortion cases in every arrondissement of Paris.

The notorious and mysterious criminal Furax steals France's famous monuments, replacing them with replicas.

The story of Robert Badinter who was the major architect of the abolition of the death penalty in France.

Based on an actual Cold War incident in which a Ukrainian prisoner of conscience was forced to defend his Christian faith while under Soviet interrogation

The tale of a little boy named Cricket and his close grandfather, a true collector of memories who will pull off his dream of flying away in the most moving way.


In September 1938 a British detective comes to a small French coastal town in order to investigate the death of a colleague. Prime suspects are the members of English aristocratic family with plenty of skeletons in the closet. This is a loose adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel Towards Zero.

Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle reunite.