– Julie Snyder is POSSESSED…
– An OBSESSION that has been invading his head since his split with Pierre-Karl Péladeau…
– SWEAT it down to the corn…
– His goal…
– Le MANGER on Sunday evening…the most important evening in the world of television..
– While TVA FEATHERS loses with “THE VOICE” which loses more and more viewers week after week.
– Noovo launches SURVIVOR QUEBEC tomorrow…
– And the ratings experts at Numeris expect the show RASE TOUT is on the way…
– Already this BIG BROTHERS (whose FINALE is tomorrow) put in his little bag the competing show on TVA, “Sortez-moi d’ici”…
– SURVIVOR becomes “the VOICE” at DINNER FOOD….
– VAT in FREE CASE…
– Noovo in 7th heaven….
– Julie Snyder humiliates her ex in public.
– Ouch…
– REVENGE is a dish best eaten COLD…
– For Julie Snyder it will be eaten on Sunday night….
– Its a dog…
There’s a big budget in Survivor Quebec. So it’s not a Wish version or a Shein copy of this popular format, which has run for 44 seasons on CBS in the US.
Huge play structures, awe-inspiring vistas of lush jungle, contestants parachuting onto islands bathed in turquoise waters, the adaptation of this rustic and exotic reality show spatters us with sun, sweat and stress.
Noovo will air the first episode of Survivor Quebec on Sunday at 8pm, immediately after the Big Brother Celebrities finale, and daily newspapers will switch from Monday to Thursday at 7pm for 11 weeks.
Yes, Survivor Quebec passes the test. Of course, for those who love adventure reality TV. Think Devil’s Lot from the Séries Plus channel, but in 2023, with strong minds who know how to build a shelter using palm leaves and pieces of bamboo.
It’s effective, spectacular and stunning. From the first minutes, the 20 participants (10 men and 10 women), ranging in age from 21 to 52, land on a sandbar near El Nido in the Philippines to face the first of a long, grueling series of ordeals to undergo.
Animator Patrice Bélanger, in his La Cordée-style safari shirt, cheerfully and relaxedly divides the competitors into two tribes: Tiyaga (the yellow ones) and Kalooban (the purple ones), who live in two separate camps. In minutes, the 20 brave swim to a boat laden with food and tools, dump the contents onto a raft, paddle ashore, where they launch at four targets with a giant slingshot and coconuts.
The victorious tribe receives a flint and a bag of rice. The losers go away empty-handed with no chance to start a fire. You will suffer for a long time, forced to eat only coconut for 60 hours, hello stomach pain. Without a flame it is impossible to cook snails, mini crabs or fresh fish.
In this tough 44-day odyssey, one of the two formations tears solidly away from the other. We watch them push giant balls into a maze or piece together a big jigsaw puzzle in a disaster, and we force, Lord, we force them to succeed, rave! Let’s say there’s more adrenaline and jitters in Survivor than Big Brother Celebrities. The selection of the 20 competitors was made cleverly and their personalities quickly emerge.
In the group are two officers, a worker, a soccer player, a podiatrist, an operator at an aluminum smelter, and a cheerleading club owner. If you go, there’s one (name withdrawn) that’ll get on your nerves, that’s for sure. The kind of controlling candidate, good old Knowing Jos who thinks he’s one step ahead but is terribly wrong. There are talkative, discreet, arrogant and two-faced faces! A mother of four, Martine, 47, of the Kalooban tribe, starred in the first chapter of Devil’s Lot in 2017.
As with Big Brother Celebrities, alliances are quickly forged within the two teams of ten. OK, we agree to take out him or her who is useless or turns out to be a threat. The tribal councils meet in the evenings, the players write their votes on parchment paper, and Patrice Bélanger puts out the torch of the displaced, reminding him that the tribe has spoken!
After a month and a half of bush life and cold water, the last survivor will rake in $100,000. One thing bugged me about the first two episodes of Survivor Quebec: it cries a lot. It cries with pride before starting the first challenge (manage yourself, for God’s sake). Then one tells that he lost his big brother who died of a brain tumor.
Another fears that the islanders will not accept his homosexuality. Another mourns her disappointments (and each tear that falls has a name). Hello, this is not The Voice! When it’s 44 degrees under the sun, we’re supposed to have fun! At 90 minutes, the first episode of Survivor is a little long, but it contains a hyper-satisfying twist that has us glued to the couch.
Elimination doesn’t necessarily happen on Sundays like Big Brother Celebrities, which sticks to a rigid schedule. Without giving it away, two adventurers will be packing their bags in the first week of broadcasting. The team behind Survivor Quebec also invented a cast double for Noovo.
These folks know the recipe for compelling reality TV. And unlike risqué shows like The Island of Love, Survivor caters to people ages 7 to 77 without anyone covering their eyes or ears. “It’s family co-viewing, which isn’t possible on an American platform,” notes Julie Snyder, producer of Survivor Quebec. Noovo hopes to bring Survivor back for several seasons if ratings follow, of course. Tribe speaking and being heard here, you are at home. With the remote control in hand and a colorful scarf on his wrist.