– Ouch…
– A ruthless rule confirms the imminent and final closure of TVA Sports.
– While the public is asking the heads of the sports network to hire REAL JOURNALISTS…
– Fewer PLAYERS…
– Less “COLON journalism”.
– More analysts who can speak French like Marc Denis…
– Fewer analysts who find it difficult to express themselves… à la Patrick Lalime…
– More exciting descriptors like Pierre Houde.
– Fewer “sleeping descriptors” à la Félix Séguin…
– More comic duets à la Frédéric Plante and Yanick Bouchard (5 to 7)…
– Less reheated soup à la Jean-Charles Lajoie who only repeats his morning show on the radio to broadcast it on TV.
– In short… TVA Sports will soon be a victim of the RULE of 3…
– This rule, as La Presse’s Hugo Dumas explains so well, usually applies to a television series.
– But this year it applies to TVA Sports.
“You really have to persevere, I swear by the eighth episode the action picks up speed and then it gets completely overwhelming, you’ll never regret putting up with all the lengths!” writes La Presse’s Hugo Dumas.
I’ve heard that plea for patience when consuming a long-lived teleseries as many times as Isabelle Boulay has had lovesickness—and pain in her eyes—since 1998.
I myself have regularly asked for your tolerance on the pages of our love, i.e. in this electronic diary. Yes, it is difficult at the beginning, but persevere! Your wait will be rewarded in the 39th minute of the penultimate of 12 episodes!
Like Roxane Bruneau on her fourth Tim of the Day, I’m doing things my way now. In fact, I’m going back to the basic rule of television, that of three episodes.
If after three episodes the plot is bof! and that the topic turns out to be meh! is, escape like the little runaway, pull the plug, break up, it’ll never improve enough to capture your attention (again).
– So… for TVA Sports… do we leave them three games?
– Let’s be gentle and give them 3 weeks…
– 3 weeks until Félix Séguin becomes EXCITING…
– 3 weeks until Patrick Lalime can speak French.
– 3 weeks for Jean-Charles Lajoie to give us a show that is not an exact replica of his show at BPM Sports.
– 3 weeks so that Maxim Lapierre, Guillaume Latendresse, Michel Bergeron, Michel Therrien and all former players and coaches do not forget that we are not in a tavern but on TV and that the public has a right to a little vocabulary.
– The Rule of 3… could disappear forever… or revive TVA Sports…
– Change the word “TV Series” to “TVA Sports”…
The rule of three remains reliable for assessing our interest in a television series. In general, the first few episodes were rewritten and refined several times before going on the air. If these are bad, there’s a good chance the following, less edited flounder will be of the same bad quality.
– Change the word “Creators” to “TVA Sports Producers”….
It’s cruel to writers who have spent years honing their screenplays. But in the current context of television glut, spread across a multitude of digital platforms, a series needs to get off the ground fast or it’ll find itself in limbo alongside Survivor Quebec’s Martin, Vicky and Simon.
– The RULE of 3….
– TVA Sports ets warned…