Choosing the 100 most notable shows on our television is truly an attempt at the impossible.
At most, we need to ensure that the hundred programs on the list deserve to be included on the list without forcing a ranking on them. However, I would totally agree with the first five options on this list if at number 5 we found District 31, that television phenomenon, and not Love with a capital A. Not just Janette Bertrand's “Psycho” series “Pop.” , who was in Télé-Québec's heyday from 1986 to 1996, doesn't deserve to be on the honor roll, but in 5th place?
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Speaking of “5e rang”: The series of the same name by the old author tandem Sylvie Lussier and Pierre Poirier is not on the list. However, the series, which we film largely on a farm in Saint-Chrysostome in Montérégie, is already in its sixth season and still attracts many viewers. In my opinion, “Ladies of the Heart” is well worth a film that we would undoubtedly have forgotten if the wild womanizer Jean-Paul Belleau (Gilbert Sicotte) had not been part of the cast.
The twelve journalists and columnists who worked on the list did an exemplary job. If they were guilty of some lapses, it would be difficult to challenge all their decisions. For example, it makes a lot of sense to open the list with Start and Count.
The series by Réjean Tremblay (who was accompanied in his writing for the first time by the novelists Louis Caron and Jacques Jacob) achieved a hat trick: it landed in the back of the network on Radio-Canada, on TVA and on TQS! And I'm not talking about the English version “He Shoots, He Scores” and the French version “Cogne et Win”. “Lance et Compte” owes much of its brilliance to the bold production of the late Jean-Claude Lord, the first director who took our series out of the confines of studios to give it great cinematic touches.
I fully support my colleagues' decisions, but not necessarily the ranks assigned to them. Still, I am sad not to have found in the Les Belles Dimanches list, which was a flagship series of Radio-Canada for 38 years, the one that we continue to cite as an example when we talk about the cultural role of the public broadcaster play. Dear Henri Bergeron, presenter for 17 years, must have turned in his grave when he read the list. I'm just wondering why there aren't any nice Sundays.