Eleonore Loiselle (The Goddess of Fireflies) performs the title role in the new original series by Daniel Thibault and Isabelle Pelletier (The perfect life), Disobey, Chantal Daigle’s choiceon screen from March 8 on Crave.
Chantal Daigle is this 21-year-old young woman who won her case before the Supreme Court of Canada on August 8, 1989 to be able to have an abortion. This judgment therefore made it possible to ratify the legalization of this right since the judges considered that no one could obtain an injunction to force a woman to terminate her pregnancy and that the father of a fetus had no right to property on it. A few weeks earlier, Chantal Daigle had indeed decided to abort and leave her violent and perverse spouse, Jean-Guy Tremblay, played here by Antoine Pilon (The cottage), who had avenged himself by calling for justice. More than thirty years after the facts and one year after the cancellation of the judgment Roe v. wade in the United States, this new fiction on the freedom of women to dispose of their bodies looks promising!
The Club Illico platform offers to go back ten years with the series Megantic, which will air from February 16. We are on July 6, 2013 in Lac-Mégantic when 47 people are killed in one of the worst rail disasters in the country: a convoy of 72 tank cars filled with crude oil burst into flames after derailing and reducing the center to ashes. -city of this tight-knit municipality in the Eastern Townships with terrifying explosions. The choral series produced by Alexis Durand-Brault (Helping Beatrice) proposes to observe the tragedy through the prism of eight different victims whose destiny is broken, yet linked to each other. Equipped with extraordinary special effects, Megantic could well be one of those Quebec creations that will be exported internationally this year.
From laughter to tears
In regards to of Antoine is another original series from Club Illico, this time a comedy-drama, which follows the life of a family with a child with multiple disabilities. Produced by Podz (Mafia inc.), the series was scripted by Cathleen Rouleau (Squad 99) from personal experience. The latter also holds one of the main roles, alongside Claude Legault (drunken birds), by Micheline Bernard (Matthias and Maxime) and Sylvain Marcel (Aline). About Anthony will go live on January 19.
Series Plus offers two new creations to mark the start of 2023. In Bombs (February 2), first, screenwriter Kim Lévesque-Lizotte (Before the crash) tells the story of thirty-somethings Juliette, Vicky, Claudine and Emma, who do not know each other, but who have their addictions in common. After meeting in a specialized center, the characters, played by Olivia Palacci (Lies), Julie de Lafrenière (30 lives), Sarah Desjeunes Rico (Oh) and Debbie Lynch-White (The Bolduc) — who also came up with the original idea for the series — are going to do everything to come out of it with their heads held high.
Then, Jean-Philippe Baril Guérard co-signs the adaptation of his book High demolition with Suzie Bouchard, while Christian Laurence directs the series (March 16). The comedians of the novel, Raph and Laurie, are respectively played on screen by Étienne Galloy (PRANKS) and Léane Labrèche-Dor (The laugh).
Catherine St-Laurent (District 31), Antoine-Olivier Pilon (Mommy), Joakim Robillard (Underground) and Noémie Leduc-Vaudry (That’s how I love you) make up the quartet at the head of seem to go. This comic series by Quebec poet and author Jean-Christophe Réhel (What we breathe on tattoo) and produced by Urbania for Télé-Québec follows the colorful adventures of these four friends with cystic fibrosis. Rather than talking about the disease, The air to gowhich we can watch from March 22, wishes to evoke the thirst for life and the significant relationships that punctuate existence, somewhat in the same vein as The red wristbands on VAT. Also note the arrival of the psychological thriller Eyes closed written by Anita Rowan, with Magalie Lépine-Blondeau, on Tou.tv Extra from January 26.
And on the side of reality…
There are many documentaries that caught our attention. On Télé-Québec, for example, there is Essentials on January 25, an investigation by Sonia Djelidi and Sarah Champagne devoted to immigration to Quebec, or even love letter to the city, March 29, where Luc Ferrandez explores the challenges of urban centers to adapt to climate change and pandemics. In tune with the times, the series thirst for revolutionscheduled for March 15 at Historia, gives pride of place to local microbreweries, vineyards and microdistilleries, which are booming in the province.
At last, take me out from here (February 19) is a new TVA reality show where celebrities, like Nathalie Simard, Andréanne A. Malette and Jean-Michel Leblond, must push their limits during a stay in a makeshift camp in the Costa Rican jungle in order to to collect donations for a cause close to their hearts. AMI-télé is interested for its part in the romantic encounters of single people with disabilities in the inclusive series What if it was you ?moderated by Varda Étienne.
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