Obviously, there are plenty of twists and turns in Nuit Blanche both on screen and behind the scenes. Brigitte Lafleur will replace Valérie Blais in the sequel series, expected on Prime Video next year.
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The news was announced Tuesday afternoon at the launch of the 2023-2024 program for Amazon’s streaming video service.
In an interview after the event, Nuit Blanche executive producer Charles Lafortune stated that a scheduling conflict prevented Valérie Blais from meeting with the rest of the team. The actress played Charlotte Hébert, the eldest daughter of Loulou Hébert (France Castel), the ex-model and businesswoman at the center of the story by author Julie Hivon (Alertes, Au succor de Béatrice). Valérie Blais is currently starring in the film adaptation of Les Belles-sœurs. Filming for Nuit blanche is also in full swing under the direction of director Julien Hurteau (Alertes, Les petits rois).
“Unfortunately, [Valérie Blais] “I chose Les-s-sœurs,” said Charles Lafortune, who holds the position of vice president of content and creation at Pixcom, the production company behind this family saga with thriller overtones.
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In the first season of Nuit Blanche, Valérie Blais played Charlotte Hébert, a single mother of a daughter with Down syndrome and head of a shelter for abused women
Nuit Blanche’s other main cast members will return to their respective characters, including Marilyse Bourke, Jean-Philippe Perras, Michel Rivard, Ron Lea, Iannicko N’Doua, Antoine Pilon and Rose-Marie Perreault.
According to Charles Lafortune, Brigitte Lafleur’s arrival is “working well.” As for the plot of the new episodes, it will be set in the heart of the 1980s.
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Charles Lafortune at the launch of Prime Video on Tuesday
This is another twist in the story (in the broadest sense) of Nuit Blanche. In December 2021, Radio-Canada caused a stir among 850,000 viewers by pulling the plug on the series after just one season and, most importantly, a finale full of twists and turns that left several questions unanswered. Last February, La Presse announced that Prime Video would revive this luxury soap with the help of Séries Plus, which would offer it in a second broadcast slot.
More hockey
“Nuit Blanche” marks Prime Video’s first foray into original Quebec fiction. Until now, the American platform had relied almost exclusively on humor to mobilize the beautiful province.
According to Prime Video Canada, Australia and New Zealand director Magda Grace, the video service’s offering in 2024 shows Amazon’s desire to please as many Quebecers as possible. For this reason in particular, two documentaries will be broadcast that concern our national sport: hockey. The first, Saving Sakic, will focus on former Quebec Nordiques player Joe Sakic. The second film, titled “Chosen One: Alexandre Daigle,” promises to paint an intimate portrait of the 1993 draft prospect who ultimately never broke through in the NHL.
Alexandre Daigle, who was present at the unveiling, said that he took part in the game of memories with great pleasure, especially since he enjoyed it together with his father, who was “in his last years”. “It felt good,” said the former Ottawa Senators player, now 48 years old.
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Alexandre Daigle
Prime Video will also release Elisabeth Rioux: Without Filter, a documentary series about the Quebec entrepreneur and content creator that aims to take a look behind the scenes, or rather everything we find behind her poses on Instagram. “I’m not just an influencer,” said the lead prospect.
Elsewhere in fiction, the release of an American series filmed in Quebec and inspired by a local news story is also highly anticipated. Produced by actress Jamie Lee Curtis, “The Sticky” will revisit the historic 2012 maple syrup robbery in Saint-Louis-de-Blandford. The first minutes of this major production were presented to the media, but given a strict embargo we must keep quiet about everything we observed.
Guillaume Cyr and Suzanne Clément, who along with Mickaël Gouin, Guy Nadon, Jean-François Provençal and Marc Beaupré are among the Quebec actors who appear in the work’s credits, spoke of a series filmed in English but with ” “many, many of Quebec”. Taste.” As for Jamie Lee Curtis, she would be “extraordinary” and “generous,” said Guillaume Cyr, who worked with her for a week during filming last spring. “She paid for the food trucks for the crew, she was friendly to everyone,” the actor revealed.
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Guillaume Cyr and Suzanne Clément
LOL twice instead of once
Prime Video will continue to leverage the popularity of Quebec comedians to increase its market share in French Canada. This winter the platform offers the second season of LOL: Who Laughs Last? This reality TV competition, still directed by Patrick Huard, will include the group of comedic personalities that we revealed last week, namely Stéphane Rousseau, Philippe Laprise, Katherine Levac, Neev, Rosalie Vaillancourt, Mariana Mazza, Fabien Cloutier , Pier-Luc Funk and Tai TL and Roxane Bruneau.
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Patrick Huard with some participants of the LOL 2024 edition: Who will laugh last? : Neev, Fabien Cloutier, Rosalie Vaillancourt, Stéphane Rousseau and Phillippe Laprise
During the announcement, Patrick Huard pointed out that one of the strengths of the Quebec adaptation of the Japanese ancestry concept was the “incredible camaraderie” between the participants. “We feel the complicity. It adds a layer,” emphasized the host of the competition, in which each participant tries to make others laugh without laughing themselves, under threat of elimination.
Prime Video’s Magda Grace noted, but did not provide numbers, that the 2023 edition of LOL: Who Will Laugh Last? had achieved “great success” with “a cross-generational audience” last winter.
The third season has just been filmed.
Finally, Prime Video continues its collaboration with Just for Laughs and presents (starting today) The Ultimate Gala. This special evening, recorded last summer to mark the 40th anniversary of the Montreal festival, brought together the biggest names in humor, including Martin Matte, Louis-José Houde and Yvon Deschamps. He emphasized to journalists that he did not want to miss this meeting.
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Yvon Deschamps and Rosalie Vaillancourt
“I had to be there. I didn’t know what condition I would be in. It’s been a long time since I [fait de l’humour sur scène]. But I took the risk and was happy. Because I was good. That didn’t make any sense! “ cried the monument, laughing.