French TV icon Bernard Pivot, whose long-running talk shows gave rise to the late James Lipton’s Bravo series 'Inside the Actors Studio,' recalls a transatlantic friendship of “mutual admiration” that ...

Bernard Pivot was a French journalist, interviewer and host of cultural television programmes. In 1985, Pivot created the Championnats mondiaux d'orthographe (world spelling championships). He has ...

BernardBernard Pivot, a French television host who made and unmade writers with a weekly book chat program that drew millions of viewers, died on Monday in Neuilly-sur-Seine, outside Paris, a the age ...

With the passing of a French icon of "la dictée", or dictation, FRANCE 24's Delano D'Souza and Solange Mougin take a look at how Bernard Pivot made spelling competitions fun. We also look at why the ...