holiday fantasy
The school break week is for many a special time to “crash” as a family in front of the TV. And if it was also an opportunity to let go of his crazy, still in front of the TV? That’s what the team behind the special seems to suggest. A dream break with Émile Bilodeaua production with a beautifully assumed muddled fantasy.
The dynamic singer of I’ve had enough This is a pretty delirium composed of inspired musical performances, served in the “typical” school decor of Notre-Dame College, in Montreal, in the company of his guests Jérôme 50 and La Bronze, and small sketches with dreamlike accents featuring Chantal Fontaine (who plays a cousin of her Virginie’s left buttock…), Jason Roy-Léveillé and Véronique Claveau (who engage in a somewhat strange singing trick). We come out of this unusual “vacation” style exercise with the desire to skip school, but at school.
A dream break with Émile Bilodeau
Télé-Québec, Saturday, 8 p.m. and Friday, March 4, 6 p.m.
budding scientists
The Regional Science Fair season for high school and college students is opening very soon. This is a good time for the French-Canadian channel Unis to launch this new program for the whole family, which introduces the work of budding researchers and inventors from here, with simplicity and humour. What arouse some “vocations”.
The illusionist Luc Langevin — and incidentally spokesperson for the network that organizes the Science Fairs — hosts this magazine in which he presents the research results and inventions of curious young people visibly proud to show the fruit of their work, and to whom he often serves as a guinea pig (or assistant) to demonstrate its effectiveness. The demonstrations and explanations, clear and often impressive, benefit from a comic veneer, both in the production and in the funny narration by Mathieu Pichette, which makes the whole thing even more entertaining.
Thus, the science-loving magician and future researchers will have to, among other things, have Georges Laraque test an anti-concussion cap, put a shovel to the test that prevents heart ailments, and observe whether sound can stop a blaze.
The inventive
Unis TV, starting Sunday, March 6, 9:30 a.m., and at tv5unis.ca starting February 28
Rise and fall of ambitious
The American television winter brings us its share of fictionalized versions of personalities who made the headlines first for their successes, then for their setbacks and mistakes, which sometimes led them to the gates of prison. After the recent miniseries Inventing Annaon the Russian scammer pretending to be a German heiress, we are entitled this week on the Disney + platform to The Dropouta dramatic adaptation of a podcast devoted to the ambitious Elizabeth Holmes (played by Amanda Seyfried in replacement of Kate McKinnon), founder of Theranos, a company which was to revolutionize blood analysis, and since convicted of fraud.
A few days earlier, the cable channel Showtime offers the first season of the anthology series
The Dropout (VOA and VF)
Disney+, from March 3
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
Showtime and Crave, Sunday, 10 p.m.