Who says Télé-Québec’s fall programming says On call 24/7. This is a basic treatment – not a comfort treatment. It’s a strong vital sign that always pushes this pulsating documentary to the top of the public channel’s most popular shows.
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Of course, the good Dr Éric Gagnon of Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital will roll up his sleeves in this eighth season, as will the formidable DD Nathalie Zan and the energetic Dr Massimiliano Iseppon. The first patients will show up at Télé-Québec on Thursday, September 8 at 8 p.m.
New this year: On call 24/7 will devote four episodes to the practice of medicine outside urban centres. Filming was done in Baie-Comeau, Maria (in Gaspésie) and Murdochville. And guess who the team met on their tour of the regions? The DD Camille Hudon, an emergency physician – and resident in family medicine – who participated in the first edition of On call 24/7 at Charles-LeMoyne Hospital, seven years ago.
Another pleasing return: Télé-Québec will relay the dramatic comedy Audrey came back Thursdays at 9 p.m. starting September 29. Sorry ? Didn’t Videotron’s Club illico hold the scoop on this strangely endearing series? Yes, well seen.
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Audrey came back will be broadcast on Télé-Québec on Thursdays at 9 p.m. starting September 29.
According to Marie Collin, the CEO of Télé-Québec, it was Quebecor who contacted Télé-Québec to sell it the first broadcast ofAudrey came back on a conventional antenna. This type of lateral commercial shift, between two competing broadcasters, happens very rarely. So let’s take advantage of it.
And between you and me, Audrey came backco-signed by Florence Longpré and Guillaume Lambert, fits really better at Télé-Québec than at TVA, where this singular comedy would have been wedged between The cheater, Masked singers and The breakaway.
Competing for 13 Gemini awards, Audrey came back recounts the slow awakening of a young 35-year-old Soreloise (Florence Longpré) after spending 18 years in a coma.
From Monday to Thursday at 6:30 p.m., Télé-Québec will launch a new daily series aimed at 9 to 12-year-olds called Like chicken heads. We follow the Babin-Bibeau family made up of the musician father (David Savard), the mother who is returning to study carpentry-joinery (Mélanie Pilon) and their three teenagers with strong characters. The author Pierre-Yves Bernard (In a galaxy near you, midnight at night) signs the texts and it starts on September 5th.
In the new magazine To drink and to eat, Vanessa Pilon, Rémi-Pierre Paquin and Lindsay Brun talk to us about the optimal pressure to inflate your winter tires. Well no, the trio will rent chalets throughout Quebec, which will become the anchor point for a tempting gourmet trip to various local producers. The first episode ofTo drink and to eat will play Friday, September 9 at 8 p.m.
Another new youth series on Télé-Québec: Kilucru Island, scheduled Monday to Friday at 5:30 p.m., starting October 10. Traveling around the world, the Belhumeur-Lamour family lands on a magical island where, among others, a benevolent fairy (France Castel) and a grumpy troll (Marcel Leboeuf) live. Gossip: Kilucru Island is the first youth project that Marcel Leboeuf has joined since Minibus in 1989. Minibus, damn it was good. Serious.
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The cast of Kilucru Island is led by France Castel (second from left) and Marcel Leboeuf (at end, right)
Still for our friends the “djeunes”, Pier-Luc Funk and Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse have chosen not to host (boo!) the evening Mammoth, scheduled for December 9. To succeed them, Télé-Québec has requisitioned the talent of 10 artists, including Roxane Bruneau, Alicia Moffet, Mathieu Dufour, Schelby Jean-Baptiste, Irdens Exantus and Claudia Bouvette.
Autumn at Télé-Québec will blush in the continuity and solidity of its strong brands. beautiful and bum celebrates its 20th anniversary, Curious Begin celebrates its 15th anniversary, while It’s worth it and Two Golden Men and Rosalie each blow out 10 candles on their cake.
A special program is also concocted to mark the 20th anniversary of the arrival in our televisions ofAt the di Stasio, which sparked a small revolution in many Quebec kitchens. Release: December 2.
It is all the same the dean of Télé-Québec programming, Cine-gift, which boasts the heaviest birthday with its well-counted 40 brooms. The special The Gervais-Diaz celebrate Cine-gift (December 9) will pay tribute to this tradition, which provides Télé-Québec with its best audiences of the year.
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Bianca Gervais and Sébastien Diaz, at the helm of the special program The Gervais-Diaz celebrate Ciné-gift
Télé-Québec keeps its intriguing fiction series for January seem to gothe first television work of the author Jean-Christophe Réhel (What we breathe on Tatouine). All suffering from cystic fibrosis, four friends in their twenties live in emergency when they learn that one of them will soon take his last breath. Antoine Olivier Pilon, Catherine St-Laurent, Noémie Leduc-Vaudry and Joakim Robillard landed the lead roles.
It is also in winter that we can leaf through the magazine Autonomous. Concept ? The co-pilots Pierre Brassard, Simon Boulerice and Rose-Aimée Automne T. Morin feel unfit in several domestic spheres. The trio will settle in a decrepit chalet in order to improve their skills in cooking, renovation and various manual works.
Among the mentors who will support them in their learning, there is Amine Laabi from Chiefs! and construction expert singer Edith Butler. When Packetville will marry to the sound of drill !