Tele-radar: our suggestions | The Press

Every week, The Press scans the TV offer to identify four titles to watch.

Marc-Andre Lemieux
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The novelty : Free exchange

We weren’t convinced after one episode, but after four, we understand better why KOTV (Between two sheets) wanted to use this British format signed by Nick Hornby (About a Boy, Wild). Painting the portrait of a couple in crisis who, every week, stops at the same bar before going to therapy, Free exchange (State of the Union in the original English version) stars Louis Morissette and Marie-Claude Guérin, an actress who deserves to appear in the credits of a greater number of productions. Well chiseled, the dialogues are sometimes funny, sometimes incisive, and always intelligent. The adaptation work is also successful. Lasting 10 minutes each, the first episodes include references to the CAQ.

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On demand : The Tourist

Amazon’s Prime Video platform is obviously trying to appeal to action fans. After achieving success with Jack Ryan and Reacherthe video-on-demand service relays another series packed with adrenaline: The Tourist (in French, The tourist). Cut into six one-hour episodes, this BBC One thriller tells the story of an amnesiac man (Jamie Dornan) who tries to discover his true identity in the middle of the Australian desert. less striking than Memento (Christopher Nolan, 2000), this co-production between Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia manages to entertain us. And The Tourist takes itself just seriously enough, never too seriously. One downside: some sequences of violence that were slightly too gratuitous would have been cut during editing.

Amazon Prime Video

The roll of the dice: Ally McBeal

Some series age well. Others less. We don’t know which category falls into. Ally McBealbut one thing is certain, we have excellent memories of the adventures of the deliciously neurotic lawyer portrayed by Calista Flockhart at the turn of the 1990s and 2000s. The mixed toilets, the hallucinatory sequences, the musical numbers, the dancing baby… The comedy drama created by David E. Kelley (Big Little Lies) was off the beaten track. Admittedly, the authors have lost their magic touch after four seasons, but since ELLE Fictions has just obtained the broadcasting rights for the first two, we have nothing to fear.

ELLE Fictions, weekdays at 6 p.m. (from Tuesday)

The event: An Audience With Adele

Notice to Adele fans who found thatAdele One Night Only, his special with Oprah Winfrey, included too much talk and not enough lalala: NBC will broadcast his two-hour performance recorded last fall at the posh Palladium, one of London’s most famous theatres. In front of an audience made up of several celebrities including Dua Lipa, Samuel L. Jackson, Emma Thompson, Emma Watson, Naomi Campbell, Boy George, Mel B of the Spice Girls, the British superstar pushes the note on Easy On Me, Send My Love (To Your New Lover), Hometown Glory, Hello, Rolling in The Deep, Someone Like You, Set Fire to the Rain, I Drink Wine, hold-on and Love is a Game. She also sheds a few tears when her former English teacher surprises her on stage.

NBC, Sundays at 9 p.m.