Rooted in the legacy of “public-access television,” which experienced significant growth from the 1970s onward, this screening brings together a selection of videos produced by artists and collectives who share a common approach: appropriating the codes of popular television programs in order to question, with irony, the discourses and stereotypical representations shaped by the mass media. Deploying a wide range of tones, aesthetic languages, and staging strategies, these works offer a broad panorama of practices that détourne television formats (sitcom, interview, talk show, wildlife documentary, tutorial, fitness class, cartoon, commercial, etc.). By successively assuming the roles of actor, camera operator, presenter, interviewer, or voice-over narrator, these artists expose the absurdity of promotional messages and the promises they convey, denounce the ideological biases that distort the perception of certain events or facts, and deliver a commentary that is both caustic and self-reflexive on media representations of the art world.