No more treadmill, no more earworm theme song and no more minizoo in the studio: Julie Snyder hangs up her microphone from The week of the 4 Julies and his daily talk show will end for good on April 6 after four seasons on Noovo.
The producer and host announced it to her team, then to her audience, on Wednesday evening. “It’s part of my decision to focus on new projects. I am delighted for Mélanie Maynard and Marie-Lyne Joncas, but to date, I am the only woman to produce and host a daily talk show. It’s a marathon and a sprint that you have to run at the same time,” the producer and host confides in me.
In an interview, Julie Snyder says she is neither washed out nor jaded by her job. Nor does she play the proverbial “family reasons” card to explain the end of her show. The president of Productions J simply wants to catch her breath after four years of intense whirlwind.
I see the shows of my guests, I read their books, I watch their films or their shows, I want to do my job to highlight the artists. And that takes a lot of energy and time. The show is called the 4 Juliebut there is only one, a Julie.
Julie Snyder
The host does not abandon a sinking television ship, she insists. “The team is well-established, everyone is having fun, the researchers are on top, it’s probably our easiest season,” says Julie Snyder.
Already, the demon is working on an ultra-secret TV project that she would heat up for Noovo, a project she refuses to talk about. “I want to do things that have never been done, I want to generate new things and support the teams ofDouble occupationof Survivor Quebecof Completely high school and Fabulous Spring by Marie-Lyne “, she lists.
In total, Julie Snyder will have piloted 363 one-hour episodes of The week of the 4 Julies in Novovo. Hell is us had lasted four years at Radio-Canada, while The J-fist had occupied the TVA antenna between 1997 and 2000, before its designer flew to France. Her kiss to Michel Drucker on the show Red carpetin June 1999, had then put it on the radar screen of several European producers.
“I was offered at the time to be the madwoman of the king by Thierry Ardisson at Everybody talks about it. I had also received offers from the M6 channel. I really liked working in France,” recalls Julie Snyder, who finally landed on France 2 with Friday is Julie.
There was sometimes a Mexican raffle atmosphere on the set of The week of the 4 Julies with the big human wheel, an alligator roaming free, a Tannants swimming pool or an alpine ski slope with chairlift in the studio. Julie Snyder fully assumes the eclecticism of her show, where she has welcomed the creators of Faeces and the ex-CEO of the Canadian Marc Bergevin as the group Simple Plan.
“I am proud to have offered something different and to have worked in freedom. Yes, we received guests that we had seen elsewhere, but we always offered something different. When Denis Villeneuve came, we created a big set à la Dunes. We also had wolves, ”lists Julie Snyder, who also interviewed Ellen DeGeneres, Jodie Foster and Enrique Iglesias as part of her talk show.
It’s on the sofas of The week of the 4 Julies that the careers of several columnists took off, including Rosalie Vaillancourt, Arnaud Soly, Marie-Lyne Joncas and Mathieu Dufour, who started at Productions J as a production assistant on Double occupancy Greecein the fall of 2018.
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Many artists and personalities have been on Julie Snyder’s show.
The popular “Cooking for the Lazy” segments, designed to prevent layoffs of employees amid the pandemic, culminated in surreal moments with Queer Eye host Antoni Porowski, writer Dany Laferrière, singer Julien Clerc and even Kim Thuy.
Whether or not you like her splintered style, you’ll never get bored watching Julie Snyder. Yes, she sometimes escapes it directly, but she assumes it, replaces herself and goes for it. Julie Snyder doesn’t make flat TVs. She’s a worker.
Last year, the 55-year-old host placed her wax statue outside the mansion of “tycoon” James Awad, aka the organizer of the infamous Sunwing flight. After the holidays, she led a demonstration to defend Celine Dion’s honor in front of the magazine’s New York offices. RollingStone.
And in the midst of the network war, Julie Snyder devoted long segments to the headliners of Radio-Canada’s news service, namely Anne-Marie Dussault, Patrice Roy and Céline Galipeau. You wouldn’t see this type of maneuver on any other channel, let’s say.
Rumor has it that Noovo is dropping new fiction series in its weekly 9 p.m. slot in the fall. Until then, Julie Snyder will appear in the second season of her reality show D-daywhich will be relayed by Canal Vie in the spring.
” In D-dayI am the Kim Kardashian of the poor”, laughs Julie Snyder.
Would his banker agree with this statement?