This is sad news for many science enthusiasts. Grichka Bogdanoff died at the age of 72 on Tuesday, December 28. The news was announced by his agent who transmitted the information to Agence France Presse. He formed with his twin Igor a famous duo of scientific popularizers. The two brothers became famous in the 80s when they presented the show “Temps X” on TF1. The Bogdanoff brothers are staged there dressed in futuristic suits and operating in a spaceship setting (Franck Dubosc is also the pilot). It is the first science fiction television magazine broadcast in France. The show will stop on January 2, 1982. Then Temps X resumes and becomes weekly. The magazine then lasts 60 minutes, offering reports every other week, and the other week a science fiction series.
After an interruption of ten years to study, the Bogdanoff brothers returned to television in 1999, on channel 13e street with the weekly magazine Projet X 13, then on France 2 where they present, from 2002, the short weekly program Rayons X. In 2017, the two Bogdanoff brothers both become columnists in the program Touche pas à mon poste ! on C8, to present a scientific chronicle. In 2020, they participate as contestants in the second season of the Mask Singer show in which they are disguised as parrots.
Despite some media exposure, the scientific credibility of their work has been regularly questioned by the scientific community. They have also aroused a lot of curiosity among the general public because of their personality, their family origins and their physical appearance.
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