Tele-radar | Our TV suggestions of the week

Every week, The Press scan the TV offering to identify four titles to watch.

The novelty : Tomorrow Africa

Produced by Zone3 (After the flood, Infoman) and magnificently produced by Guillaume Beaudoin, this 10-episode documentary series shows the different faces of contemporary Africa. Columnist and host Raed Hammoud (Where are you, Youssef?, Native immigrants) travels to the continent’s major cities to meet young people who are shaping its future, through artistic, environmental, social and scientific initiatives. In the first episode, we rediscover the Democratic Republic of Congo, through Kinshasa, its capital, which has 17 million inhabitants. Later this fall, the series will transport us to Dakar in Senegal, Douala in Cameroon, as well as Abidjan in Ivory Coast.

TV5, starting Friday at 8 p.m.

The surprise : How to Fail as a Popstar

Produced by Sphère Média, the Quebec production house behind Cerebrum And One way ticket, this adaptation of an autobiographical play by Vivek Shraya is riddled with delicious discomfort. With eight short episodes of 7 to 11 minutes, How to Fail as a Popstar tells the desperate quest of a young queer boy from an immigrant family in Edmonton, who wants to “become the Brown Madonna, win Grammys and fill stadiums”. We like the many nods to old radio hits from the 1990s (Finallyby CeCe Peniston, Black Velvetby Alannah Myles), as well as (sometimes forgotten) artists of the era, such as Marcy Playground, Treble Charger and Alanis Morissette.

CBC Gem, starting Friday (English version only)

The return : Frasier

After Sex and the City, That ’70s Show And Will and Gracea new series from the 1990s comes out of mothballs: Frasier. Did we really need a platform to resurrect this sitcom derived from Cheers ? Probably not. But after the horror ofAnd Just Like That and company, this revival could hardly do worse. Recorded in front of an audience at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles, the new episodes of Frasier portray the famous psychiatrist as he returns to Boston in hopes of realizing old dreams. In addition to Kelsey Grammer, Jack Cutmore-Scott, Nicholas Lyndhurst and Toks Olagundoye appear in the credits.

Paramount+, starting Thursday

Nostalgia: White

On September 23, 1993, Radio-Canada broadcast the first episode of Whitethe long-awaited (but very different) sequel to Daughters of Caleb, which had broken ratings records a few years earlier. Has the television adaptation of Arlette Cousture’s novel starring Pascale Bussières aged well? Short answer: yes. And not just because it doesn’t include any “blackface” scenes. Finely produced by Charles Binamé, this miniseries recounts the journey of Blanche Pronovost, the furiously independent daughter of Émilie and Ovila, at the heart of the 1920s and 1930s. Spoiler alert: we still haven’t digested Marie’s death -Louise (Pascale Montpetit).

Extra from ICI Tou.tv, Thursday