Tele-radar | Our suggestions of the week

Every week, The Press scans the TV offer to identify four titles to watch.

Marc-Andre Lemieux
The Press

The return : On the edge of the world

This documentary series directed by Samian paints the portrait of singular characters who have consciously chosen to adopt a different lifestyle, sometimes as a hermit in the heart of a forest without running water or electricity, sometimes in the middle of the African bush. The Algonquin rapper begins this 2^e 10-episode season with Juan Manuel Cifuentes, aka Iratxo, a Spanish rocker who, to soothe his anxiety, recently hung up his microphone. Since then, he has taken care of a shelter for abandoned or abused animals with an area equivalent to eight soccer fields. “This man has found his raison d’etre,” said Samian at the end of the hour.

TV5, from Friday at 8 p.m.

The event: Election night

After five weeks of campaigning, the major networks are going into election results mode. Patrice Roy will host election night from 5:55 p.m. on ICI RDI (7:30 p.m. on ICI Télé). The anchor will be joined by Sébastien Bovet, Alec Castonguay, Chantal Hébert, Manon Cyr, Luc Ferrandez and Régis Labeaume. For his part, Pierre Bruneau will resume service at 6:30 p.m. on LCN (7:30 p.m. on TVA) supported by Mario Dumont, Paul Larocque, Emmanuelle Latraverse, Jean-Marc Léger and Pierre-Olivier Zappa. At Noovo, the big party will start at 7 p.m. Marie-Christine Bergeron and Michel Bherer will be accompanied by several experts, including Yves Boisvert, Philippe J. Fournier, Martine St-Victor and Antonine Yaccarini.

This Monday evening, on ICI Télé, TVA, Noovo, ICI RDI and LCN

The novelty : Presumed Innocent: The France Alain Affair

After having proposed The Michelle Perron case, Marie-Claude Savard and Sébastien Trudel, accompanied by director Sébastien Trahan, reopen a new criminal case, that of France Alain, a 21-year-old engineering student at Laval University, shot dead for no apparent reason by a shotgun projectile. hunting one evening in October 1982, when she was quietly returning home. At the time, the investigation had caused a lot of ink to flow, in particular because it involved Benoît Proulx, a news reader. Found guilty in 1991, the host was acquitted in 1992. The series of 4 episodes of 60 minutes shows in particular how this case followed him throughout his career.

Craves, Wednesday

The roll of the dice: I Used to Be Famous

I Used to Be Famous (I used to be famous) is not a great movie. But between two hyper-dramatic series, this British comedy-drama allows you to breathe a little. Inspired by a short film released in 2015, it tells the story of Vince (Ed Skrein), a singer who, 20 years after finding success in a boy band, befriends Stevie (Leo Long), a particularly gifted autistic young drummer who could allow him to regain lost glory. Filled with good feelings, this feature film recalls at times About A Boy (Like a boy), this little gem released in 2002 starring Hugh Grant and Nicolas Hoult.

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