After last year’s fiasco, the makers ofdouble cast wanted to make a fresh start for the show’s 20th anniversary, marking a clear separation between his “new vision” and the events of the past year.
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In particular, the gestures of some participants had caused the waves to disastrously exit emission in the middle of the season and return more or less successfully at the end of the season.
Speaking very clearly of a “return to basics,” the production J-Team and that of its broadcaster Bell Media attempted to reconcile the stars this year in a bid to bring about a cultural shift within the OD ecosystem, which will be launched in Season 7 Running on Noovo It’s 17th overall.
From the beginning of the auditions there was a firm desire to stay away from the “clique of influencers”, stressed Jean-Philippe Perron, who led the auditions this summer and is also the idea generator and development designer for Productions J. .
“We’ve adjusted our prism through which we see candidates,” he said.
“There were really a lot of people who came to the audition and we chose the candidates that we felt most connected to and believed in,” he added Tuesday after the candidates’ unveiling and initial twists.
He also emphasized the production’s interest in staging normal young people, “all boy next door and girl next door” who didn’t know each other or didn’t know former contestants. All applicants were selected because of their “sincere interest in finding love,” the idea contributor continued.
Keep in mind that content creation agency Jinfluence takes care of the candidates when they leave the houses. However, no pub crawls have been announced yet.
New sound, new breath
The revision of the intro song provided by FouKi will also be produced in a long version later in the autumn. In addition, there will be a first animator duo consisting of Alicia Moffet, who will also become the first woman to lead this reality show, and her husband Fred Robichaud.
Note that couples encounters should also be given more prominence at OD Andalousie.
In addition, from the beginning of the adventure, the 11 boys will each have a one-on-one meeting with a girl of their choice, even before they walk the red carpet. It is then up to the eight girls to determine who may officially enter the men’s house.
Two other boys and two girls were also scheduled to enter the houses, after the red carpet, but within the first few weeks of the adventure.
In addition to two carpenters, the gentlemen this year also include a general practitioner, an architecture student, a finance director and a life insurance analyst.
For the ladies, four nurses or nursing students will share their home with an actuarial analyst, a social worker and a psychology student.
“This year we have candidates with a different intelligence, who have different topics of conversation”, Jean-Philippe Perron pointed out, specifying that of course there will still be drama and twists and that despite their profile “the rest of the young people of theirs Time”.
As a further innovation to consolidate reality TV’s new direction, the OD team has appointed an Ethics Officer who will be on site at all times. Me Chanel Steri is a lawyer at BLG and practices in all areas of labor and employment law. She co-authored the Honorable Louise Arbor’s Report on Sexual Misconduct and Harassment in the Canadian Forces and Department of Defense.
In total, about a hundred people work at the destination and about fifty others guard the fortress in Quebec.
The OD Andalousie red carpet airs September 17 at 6:30 p.m. on Noovo.
The OD adventure unofficially begins on September 10th with OD Andalousie: En route vers OD, hosted by Félix-Antoine Tremblay, who will welcome Jay Du Temple to pass the torch. Anne-Marie Withenshaw, Alex Perron, FouKi and Éléonore Lagacée will also be present at the preparations.
For their part, Fridays OD will return to the channel on September 22nd. Félix-Antoine Tremblay receives the exclusive offer of the week and will take turns discussing with Kim Lévesque-Lizotte and Marie-Claude Savard and receiving surprise guests.