In bulk, here’s a bunch of crunchy news about Radio-Canada’s fall season, not spiced up with pumpkin spice, there’s always fucking limits.
Posted at 2:07 am. Updated at 8:15am
Triage Priority: A key figure will die in STAT, the medical daily that has been injecting 1,607,000 addicts for a year.
Parenthesis before applying the Milwaukee Protocol: Be aware that your favorite programs are gradually coming back on the air starting Monday, September 11th. Adjust your digital recorders accordingly.
Returning to STAT, a collective obsession, the trailer features a funeral scene attended by almost every staff member at St. Vincent’s Hospital. Who do emergency doctor Emmanuelle (Suzanne Clément) and her colleagues bury, Lord Jesus? My spies (again!) whisper to me that we’ll find out in the first week of Marie-Andrée Labbé’s soap opera. Also in STAT, Caroline Néron will play a disturbing character who will make several employees of the hospital center miserable. This chic, straight and mysterious woman will apparently show up at the end of September.
5e Rang, the agricultural police’s popular soap opera (Monday at 8 p.m.), ends in the spring after five and a half years on the air.
PICTURE FROM THE 5E RAN SHOW
Maude Guerin, in the 5th row
“It would have taken me a few more years, but I think it’s better to end on fame. This is the role that most resembles me,” says Maude Guérin, the interpreter for Marie-Luce Goulet, the owner of the farm, at the center of the 5e intrigues refined by Pierre Poirier and Sylvie Lussier.
In Valmont, four months after the spring finale, the SQ pinches the head of the mafia Tina Fournier (Brigitte Poupart), Marie-Jeanne (Catherine Renaud) urgently returns to the hospital, Guylaine (Catherine Paquin-Béchard) opens her hair salon and Marie-Paule (Eve Duranceau) revisits her beloved psychopath (Marc Béland) in prison.
Season two of Before the Crash (Monday at 9 p.m.) plunges us into the heart of the acrimonious divorce between Évelyne (Karine Vanasse) and François (Émile Proulx-Cloutier), the golden couple who exploded. Marc-André (Éric Bruneau) comes out of the crisis better than his comrades and Karine Gonthier-Hyndman is added in the credits. I can’t wait to devour this second chapter, signed by Kim Lévesque-Lizotte and Éric Bruneau.
In “Heart beating” (Tuesday at 8 p.m.), prosecutor Gabrielle Laflamme (Ève Landry), who once suffered from anorexia, and psychoeducator Christophe L’Allier (Roy Dupuis) meet again – figuratively, of course – in their fight against domestic violence. “The violence they suffered is catching up to them,” admits Ève Landry. The last episode of Beating Heart ended with a picture of Gabrielle who was unconscious with a syringe stuck in her forearm.
PHOTO FROM THE SHOW’S FACEBOOK PAGE
The main characters of “Discussions with my parents”.
On the side of the conversations with my parents (Monday at 19:30), back in the sixth year, the housekeeper who does not bat an eyelid (Danièle Fichaud) will return to François (François Morency) with very specific health ailments.
Radio-Canada is withdrawing from the Tou.TV extra and broadcasting Serge Boucher’s television series Fragments on Tuesdays at 9 p.m., which, behind Fragile and Feux, is not the playwright’s best offering. The fourth season of Plan B, the one starring Pier-Luc Funk in the skin of a Hochelaga-Maisonneuve delinquent, also leaves Extra and plays Wednesdays at 9pm after Les enfants de la télé.
On the other hand, the six new (and final) episodes of La petite vie land on Tou.TV’s Extra on October 3rd and will be available on regular TV throughout the winter.
Clips shown on Monday reveal that Moman, once played by Serge Thériault, has taken a trip around the world, notably to Paris and Jamaica, driving Ti-Mé (Claude Meunier) and her grown children to despair.
Also on Extra (September 21) is The Candidate, the latest comedy from screenwriter Isabelle Langlois, creator of the delicious series Let Go. To help a friend, a 29-year-old nail technician (Catherine Chabot) agrees to run for a party similar to the Québec Solidaire. Despite all predictions, she wins her elections!
Pierre-Yves Lord’s 100 Geniuses game returns to its pre-COVID formula with 100 participants (Thursday at 8pm). Live from the Universe begins its 15th season with the most viewed artist since the show began. No, it’s not Luce Dufault, it’s Kim Richardson, reveals host France Beaudoin. Ève Côté, Mona de Grenoble and Marie Carmen will later sit in the guest’s chair to celebrate.
PHOTO FROM THE SHOW’S FACEBOOK PAGE
Jean-René Dufort, moderator of Infoman
Infoman enters its 24th season preparing a special “First Times” program in which Jean-René Dufort unearths the first interviews with politicians at his microphone.
Everyone’s Talking About It begins September 24, the Sunday after the Gemini Gala. Guy A. Lepage’s big set is celebrating its 20th anniversary, can you believe it?
Fans of the sitcom Sans Rendez-vous are enjoying every moment as the third and final season airs on Extra on November 2nd and goes to mainstream TV in January. François Bellefeuille’s veterinary comedy ‘Temps de chien’ will premiere on November 16th on Extra before being broadcast on traditional TV after the holidays.
Radio-Canada is keeping productions such as L’oeil du cyclone 4, Doute raisonable 3, Cerebrum 3, Zénith 2 and Lakay Nou, a series about a Haitian family directed by actors Frédéric Pierre and Catherine Souffront, for the winter.
Then, in March 2024, the funeral service was scheduled with the last round of “So Liebe ich dich”. In the summer of 1976, criminal Huguette Delisle (Marilyn Castonguay) languishes at the bottom of the barrel, Montreal has taken control of organized crime in Sainte-Foy and revenge is brewing. Xavier Dolan joins the series’ five-star cast and hopefully won’t watch the world burn live from his rental trailer.