Beyond the Emblem
Director Frédéric Nassif sheds light on an unprecedented facet of hockey. Our national sport is, in fact, what sometimes unites and helps the integration of newcomers. Witness, for example, the native of Lebanon Maurice Ghazi. He discovered a passion for hockey at the age of 10 when he moved to Quebec with his family and has never hung up his skates since. Today, he is a member of the formidable Lebanese national hockey team, which was born in a Quebec arena in May 2017 during a friendly match against Haiti.
The documentary notably explores the journey and adventures of the Lebanese national hockey team and its players, who now live in Canada, the United States or Europe, but who have all kept a strong link with their country of origin. origin. More than just a sports commentary, The cedars of Lebanon offers the public a very interesting point of view on the relationship to immigration and the mother country.
The cedars of Lebanon
ICI Télé, Saturday March 11, 10:30 p.m. and Tou.tv
Is the grass greener elsewhere?
This is the question that Nathan Shelley, played by Nick Mohammed (Intelligence), is set to meet during the highly anticipated third season of Ted Lassowhen he has just been recruited by West Ham to become the new coach. As a reminder, at the end of season 2, “Nate” left, angry, his position as assistant to Ted Lasso (Jason Sudeikis) – an American football coach newly at the head of an English soccer team – at the ‘AFC Richmond on the brink of relegation…
As for Ted Lasso himself, will he achieve the new goals set by his boss, Rebecca Welton (Hannah Waddingham), owner of the Richmond club? Will his kindness and benevolence get the better of revenge? “ Smells Like Mean Spirit », the first episode, suggests a season that is perhaps more conventional, less surprising, than the previous ones. But let the groupies of the series be reassured: the magic works despite everything, and Ted Lasso is back with his cookies (and his panic attacks)!
Ted Lasso, season 3
Apple TV+, starting March 15
It’s show time
TVA rides the wave of 1990s nostalgia with its all-new documentary series Quepop. “Yesterday evening, DJ saved my soul with this song”: if 1990 inspired one of the most famous titles in Jean Leloup’s repertoire, the decade that followed was just as grandiose for Quebec popular culture.
Those who made this period thus find themselves, almost 30 years later, in front of the camera to discuss its successes and its unavoidable scandals. In total, some 50 colorful speakers, including Anne-Marie Withenshaw, France D’Amour, François Pérusse, Isabelle Boulay, Luc De Larochellière, Mara Tremblay, Mario Pelchat, Marjo, Martine St-Clair, Mitsou, Roch Voisine and Sonia Benezra, gather their memories, the heart to the party.
Quepop
VAT, Thursday, 9 p.m., starting March 16
The river told by Boucar Diouf
Originally named Magtogoek, or “the path that walks”, by the Algonquins, long before the arrival of Jacques Cartier in the 16e century, the St. Lawrence has never ceased to inspire comedian and host Boucar Diouf since his arrival in Quebec in the 1990s. Today, he invites four young adults to take a fresh look at this “great river” that he cherishes so much by embarking them on a trip not without turmoil from Tadoussac to Montreal, passing through Gaspé, Rimouski and Quebec.
With excerpts from the show Magtogoek by Boucar Diouf captured during the last performance in Repentigny last year, the documentary is imbued with poetry, humor and philosophy.
Boucar and the Magtogoek
Télé-Québec, Saturday, March 11, 9 p.m.