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On demand : Janet
Surprise! No need to move to the United States to watch the documentary series on Janet Jackson. Contrary to what A&E confirmed to us last week, the four episodes are currently available in Canada. To access it, go to aetv.com, click on Janet, connect with your TV provider, and voila, you’re done. Although the long-awaited episode on the 2004 Super Bowl incident is disappointing (several questions remain unanswered), the series is worth watching, largely for its first two hours, during which the singer, usually very reserved, speaks without filter of several sensitive topics, such as his childhood, his father, his romantic relationships and Michael Jackson.
Aetv.com
The document: Lose Mario
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Lose Mario
To highlight National Suicide Prevention Week, Télé-Québec is broadcasting this documentary in which author and director Carl Leblanc (The heart of Auschwitz, Ordinary mortals) shows the repercussions of the suicide of a longtime friend and tries to understand what pushed him to commit such a radical gesture by interviewing his relatives and a few specialists. Composed of many archive images, this film is narrated by Luce Dufault and Robert Lalonde, who brings to life the diary that Mario kept before he died. Hailed at the Les Percéides festival last September, Lose Mario will also hit theaters on February 11.
Télé-Québec, Wednesday at 8 p.m., also available on telequebec.tv
The return : Hold lounge
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Hold lounge
Hold lounge is not a makeover type show where Mr. and Mrs. Everybody change brushing in 30 minutes. Rather, it is a “socio-capillary” documentary series in which host and journalist Sophie Fouron meets different cultural communities while touring hair salons in Quebec. In this second season, we will notably get to know Waldys, a father, Cuban of origin, who considers his living room as his third baby, and Zabi, a 31-year-old Afghan who works in Saint-Hubert. Also on the program: Ariane, hairdresser for drag queens, and Daniel, barber for the homeless in Montreal.
TV5, Tuesday at 8 p.m.
The essential: Beijing 2022
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Martin Labrosse, Marie-José Turcotte, Guillaume Dumas and Jacinthe Taillon will host the Beijing Olympics.
Here we go again ! Six months after Tokyo, it was the turn of the Beijing Winter Olympics to take over the airwaves of Radio-Canada and RDS. This 16-day blitz of competition (from February 4 to 20) begins with the unmissable opening ceremony, staged by Zhang Yimou, the man behind the unforgettable inaugural evening of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, which mobilized 15 000 extras for four hours. Due to a certain pandemic, the show will be less ambitious this year. Nevertheless. If only to catch a glimpse of the faces of the athletes who will thrill us over the next few weeks, we will be there, as will Marie-José Turcotte and Céline Galipeau, who will comment on the event.
ICI Télé and RDS, Friday at 6:30 a.m., evening rebroadcast at 6:30 p.m.