Trivia / Club Dorothée

• Cancellation: The TF1 channel's executives abruptly severed all contracts and connections with Jean-Luc Azoulay and all the other creatives of AB Productions in 1997, for reasons which have not been publicly explained and still remain obscure.^note One possibility being AB Production's then-new cable/satellite network competing with TF1's. This conclusively ended the show, as well as the Shared Universe of AB series.
• Cash-Cow Franchise: The show was very popular (as in, up to a whopping 65 per cent of morning audience at its heyday), so popular that the singers (Dorothée herself, the band Les Musclés, Bernard Minet, Ariane Carletti...) sold records like hot cakes and toured to big crowds of kids.
• Dueling Works: From 1993 to 1997, the Club Dorothée had increasingly strong competition from another kids morning show that aired on the same schedules, puppet show Les Minikeums on France 3, which also had a cast of goofy hosts, comedy skits and music videos. And it also featured some anime series such as The Rose of Versailles, not to mention much higher quality Western Animation than the Club Dorothée's mostly Merchandise-Driven series in the same departement, such as the Il Était Une Fois... series, Warner Bros. toons (Looney Tunes, Animaniacs) and, last but not least, the DC Animated Universe, starting with Batman: The Animated Series. That being said, both shows ended up being fondly remembered for people who grew up in The '90s.
• Referenced by...:
  • The 2019 film City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume is a love letter to the Club Dorothée era and the animes and series it used to broadcast, with a ton of references to them. Including a cameo by Dorothée herself.
  • Joueur du Grenier ran a special episode about the Club Dorothée era. The name and opening credits of "Club JDG" specials directly reference the show. In late December 2022, Joueur du Grenier streamed an episode from the Génération Club Do channel into which he had inserted random episodes of the animes the show aired by then, to recreate the full Club Do experience.^note For obvious copyright reasons, that stream was a one-time event and was not made available on VOD.

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