The throw of the dice
Deal or No Deal Island
Everyone remembers the Banker, this suitcase game that Julie Snyder hosted from 2007 to 2017 on TVA. In the United States, the show, which was called Deal Or No Deal, did not achieve the same success. NBC dumped it after four seasons helmed by Howie Mandel in prime time. Fifteen years later, the format is reborn in a… tropical version. Hosted by actor Joe Manganiello (Magic Mike, True Blood), this new edition pits 13 competitors against each other, who will be transported to a private island where 100 metal cases containing a total of 200 million US dollars are scattered.
NBC, Monday at 9:30 p.m.
The safe bet
Asterix and Cleopatra
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Asterix and Cleopatra
No, it’s not Ciné-gift, but when you look at the Crave programming, it’s just like that. To mark the school break, the video-on-demand service is enhancing its offering with a children’s film every day. After posting online The twelve labors of Asterix during the weekend, the platform starts the week by offering Asterix and Cleopatrathis 1968 Franco-Belgian animated feature film that includes one of the greatest earworms in cinema history: Arsenic pudding. Will follow Asterix the gallic (Tuesday), Tintin and Shark Lake (Wednesday) and The Daltons on the run (THURSDAY). Nostalgia, you say?
Crave
The return
So You Think You Can Dance
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Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Comfort Fedoke, Cat Deeley, Nigel Lythgoe (before his exclusion from the panel of judges of So You Think You Can Dance) and Allison Holker
After a forced break and several upheavals behind the scenes, the dance competition is finally back in action. And according to the information disclosed, the show could return to its former form. Completely renewed, the panel of judges includes two former participants, Allison Holker (widow of Stephen “tWitch” Boss) and Comfort Fedoke, and Maksim Chmerkovskiy, a veteran dancer from Dancing With the Stars. The co-creator and executive producer of So You Think You Can Dance, Nigel Lythgoe, was due to return to the judging panel, but withdrew after being accused of sexual assault by Paula Abdul. Cat Deeley will host this 18e season, which promises to adopt a more “documentary” style, it is announced.
FOX, Monday at 9 p.m.
The documentary
The gray revolution, one strand at a time
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The actress Geneviève Langlois in The gray revolution, one strand at a time
Director and producer Léa Pascal, from BLIKTV (Turbulent waters, The madmen of the ring), offers this documentary which explores male and female perceptions towards gray-haired women. It also opens by recalling the Lisa LaFlamme affair, this CTV anchor who was allegedly fired for having stopped dyeing her mane. The camera also follows actress Geneviève Langlois, who recounts her “transition”, when she decided to embrace her natural color at age 53. The comments from the focus group are particularly revealing. Observation of the participants’ responses: the gray-haired woman appears “old” and “neglected”. Silver-haired men are more accepted.
ICI Télé, Saturday at 10:30 p.m.