After Hotel and We, another soap opera falls in cathodic combat. These are the perfect momentswhich will disappear from the airwaves in December 2023 after only two and a half seasons on TVA.
Official reason: the main author Marc Robitaille considers that he has exhausted his family vein, I am told. Consolation: this death announced a year in advance will allow the screenwriter to lay a real end to his soap opera, which will not abandon its addicts on unresolved intrigues like Hotel will do so in April.
Here again, the ratings of perfect moments, which features veteran actors like Catherine Trudeau, Émile Proulx-Cloutier and Marie-Thérèse Fortin, weren’t disastrous or awkward. Since returning in September, this heartwarming annual series has engaged 722,000 fans on Wednesdays at 8 p.m., which includes tapings and delayed viewings.
The problem is that TVA hosts five soap operas in its current schedule, namely Alerts, Indefensible, The Breakaway, Hotel and The perfect moments. These productions are on the air year-round, from fall to spring, and demand long-term loyalty from viewers.
Unfortunately, time and commitment, people have less and less. After the daily STAT and Indefensiblewhich each hit 1.5 million fans, there are not so many holes left in the schedule to adopt another long-running soap opera.
The current trend leans in favor of short formats of ten episodes or less, which do not cross the threshold of three or four seasons. Of the kind : Anna and Arnaud, My mother Where Before the crash.
With the end of The breakaway, scheduled for April, TVA will find itself with a deficit of three soap operas next fall. According to my information, TVA would have extended The breakaway, but the decision to close the Sainte-Alice youth center was made by the scriptwriters, who felt they had gone around serial killers in Bas-Saint-Laurent. It was not possible to discuss Monday with the main author of The breakaway, Mylene Chollet. The co-producer of perfect momentsVincent Gagné, at Encore Television, did not call back either.
Still in the soap opera department, Radio-Canada lost All the life and Another storybut will launch With beating heart in January, which will follow the character of the psychoeducator Christophe L’Allier (Roy Dupuis), who we discovered in All the life.
As for 5e Rank, which reaches 1,073,000 followers on Mondays, at 8 p.m., his future is unclear. Authors Sylvie Lussier and Pierre Poirier have hinted that they will conclude their agropolice saga after the fifth season, which will end in December 2023. The author duo have since changed their tune: “we are ready to continue” , Sylvie Lussier told me.
Radio-Canada’s response? It is still too early to confirm anything. In short, it’s a case to follow, like the investigation into the murder of Carole Lacombe.
Turn the page !
Sunday night, Double occupation crossed the Rubicon – or an infinity pool – as the plot (finally) moved past the ousting of the three toxic bachelors who tainted the popular reality show despite their absence from episodes.
For three weeks, all the images relayed by Noovo had been shot before the elite team of Productions J – the famous SWAT of the demoness – arrived in the Martinican villas to curb “intimidation” with great blows of Celtic spa music and New Age mantra à la Eckhart Tolle.
The editors of the show have also performed Olympic pirouettes worthy of Elizabeth Manley to rewrite the history ofOD and get out of the box Isaack Matteau-Vaillancourt, 24, Philippe Gaudreau, 27, and Félix Milot, 24, our three proud representatives of Generation Z.
This era, once sponsored by Couche-Tard, is over. OD’s Daily resumed Monday night without the specter of the McMéchants trio. Insert here a sequence on a cataraman where the survivors of the psychological cataclysm dance and smile under the sun while vibrating as they never vibrated on a pop song, as subtle as it is generic, and whose lyrics ensure that “a change is in happening”. Hm, okay.
Fortunately, 23-year-old rookie Sandrine has activated her game mode, because Jimy and Claudia kissing while complaining about the difficulty of living their love in two separate houses, boo, it’s as boring as Freeman who s speak. To quote the hairdresser-colorist Virginie about the verbomotive vlogger: “life is short, but your speeches are long”. Amen.
Joined on Monday, model Isaack Matteau-Vaillancourt did not want to elaborate on the video he posted on Instagram, where he accuses OD’s production of having tarnished his image and fabricated his villain character. Isaack is also sorry for not having had the right to watch what was broadcast on TV.
Like fine sparkling wine, introspection and humility are rare at OD, while the denial of the obvious, like a song by Mes Aïeux, flows freely.