TV Radar | Our suggestions of the week on your screens

Every week, The Press Look through the TV offering to find four titles to watch.

The event

The closing ceremony of the Paris 2024 Games

After the extravagant opening ceremony, one would be crazy to miss the closing ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games (Olympics). Once again, the event is shrouded in mystery. The information session of the Olympic organizing committee is scheduled for Wednesday. But according to VarietyTom Cruise will participate in the event, which will be directed by Thomas Jolly, and presented at the Stade de France, sheltered from the showers. The American actor, who has been attending the competitions for a week, should take advantage of the opportunity to perform stunts, his trademark. After all, Los Angeles will host the next Summer Games, in 2028. Martin Labrosse, Jacinthe Taillon and Dominick Gauthier will host the broadcast on Radio-Canada.

ICI Télé, ICI Tou.tv and RDS, Sunday at 1:30 p.m. (rebroadcast in the evening at 6:30 p.m.)

Catching up

FEM

To mark the holding of the Montreal Pride Festival, Unis TV is rebroadcasting the series this week FEM in bursts, at the rate of two episodes per evening. Starring Lennikim, Marie Soleil Dion and Émily Bégin, this drama directed by Marianne Farley (the short film Daisynominated for an Oscar in 2018) tells the story of Zav, a 16-year-old boy who explores his gender identity while dreaming of making it in music. FEM is also a finalist in three categories out of 39^{it is} Gémeaux Awards: Best Drama Series, Best Director and Best Leading Actor. A second season is confirmed. Filming is scheduled for spring 2025.

Unis TV, Monday to Friday at 9 p.m. (also available on tv5unis.ca)

The roll of the dice

Triviaverse

Netflix has been offering games for some time now. Instead of watching series, we sometimes spend (almost) entire evenings answering general knowledge questions (science, arts, geography, history, etc.) from Triviaverse. The goal is simple: accumulate the correct answers during three rounds of one minute each, with increasing difficulty. The only problem: in English, his questions are very Americanocentric, while in French, they are very Eurocentric. But no matter! We quickly became addicted, even obsessed. The problem is that we can’t get past the 4500 point mark, and thus free ourselves from the title of “service intellectual”. It could be worse: we could be “sadly mediocre” (or “shockingly average”).

Netflix

Nostalgia

Party of Five

For no particular reason, we wanted to revisit this 1990s teen soap opera. Good news: aside from a few problematic plots (Charlie trying to sleep with Kirsten, completely drunk) and some cliché lines (like any good show broadcast on FOX), Party of Five has aged quite well. More down to earth than Beverly Hills 90210 and less childish than Dawson’s Creekthis drama tells the story of five siblings who must take care of themselves after the death of their parents, victims of a car accident. With Matthew Fox (Lost), Neve Campbell (Scream), Scott Wolf (The Night Shift) and Lacey Chabert (Mean Girls).

Prime Video (also available in French, with or without subtitles)