The end of the world is at 7 p.m.

The ads of STAT and D’Indefensible have rolled around so much in the past few weeks that we already feel like we know the plots and the characters.

To paraphrase the emergency physician Emmanuelle St-Cyr (Suzanne Clément), “we are going to start the maneuvers, epi, one milligram times three”! To quote criminal lawyer Léo MacDonald (Sébastien Delorme), “I’m just trying to find out what happened to make you commit this act”!

This marketing offensive bears witness to the (high) importance for Radio-Canada and TVA of winning the battle for the 7 p.m. daily newspapers, a strategic time slot that influences the viewing of all the programs that follow. “Yes, it takes you a program that is a locomotive for the rest of the evening,” notes the director general of Radio-Canada television, Dany Meloul.

On public television, STAT starts Monday, September 12 at 7 p.m. The excerpts shown Tuesday at the unveiling of the fall season of Radio-Canada testify to a nervous, luminous and rhythmic series. Suzanne Clément, Stéphane Rousseau, Ludivine Reding, Patrick Labbé, Lou-Pascal Tremblay, Geneviève Schmidt and Samantha Fins play the main roles there.

Regarding the 7 p.m. battle, actor Normand D’Amour, who plays oncologist Pascal St-Cyr in STAT, philosopher: “It will be up to viewers to decide whether they like the legal side or the medical world better,” he says. Wise words. Thirty episodes of STAT were boxed this summer.

Another titillating novelty on the Radio-Canada schedule: Before the crash, a TV series on the financial world co-authored by Kim Lévesque-Lizotte and her husband Éric Bruneau. The story ? That of three friends (Éric Bruneau, Émile Proulx-Cloutier and Benoît Drouin-Germain) who gravitate in the world of investment banks. One of them will take a solid landing, hence the sensational title of this work.

Lots of action in Discussions with my parentsback for a fifth year: the famous Danielle Cuivre (Sophie Faucher) publishes the cookbook Questionable butter and other passionsFrançois (François Morency) buys a house with Stéphanie (Leila Thibeault-Louchem), while Jean-Pierre (Vincent Bilodeau) and Rollande (Marie-Ginette Guay) write their “bucket list”.

“Country Tarantino” soap opera, according to Maude Guérin (Marie-Luce), 5^e Rank moves on Mondays at 8 p.m. and welcomes Lynda Johnson, who will don the uniform of an SQ detective sergeant. The good Jean-Michel (Frédéric Millaire-Zouvi) is still missing, but will come back quite battered.

In the fiction department, you will also see this fall A family bond by Nadine Bismuth, the second season of That’s how I love youseries For you Flora on Indian residential schools, as well as the second chapter of Cerebrum.

Everybody talks about itwhich will begin its 19^e season on September 25 at 8 p.m., remains live and will welcome more audiences to its stands. To Live from the universewho refreshed her decor, France Beaudoin will receive Michel Fugain, Martin Matte, Marie Laberge and Claude Meunier, and the host is preparing a whole present for Dominique Michel, who will celebrate her 90th birthday on September 24.

Our Infoman will spoil himself in the provincial election campaign for his 23^e on-air season. TV kids, now co-driven by André Robitaille and Mélanie Maynard, will shine the spotlight on, among others, Marjo, Virginie Ranger-Beauregard and Pierre Bruneau. Their decor has also been modernized.

In the documentary series The ambassadors (start: Saturday, September 17 at 9 p.m.), Rebecca Makonnen meets 12 Quebec women exiled abroad, who excel in their field. You will notably see Farah Alibay from NASA and the jeweler Édéenne, based in Paris.

At ARTV, the channel’s number one show, the magazine It’s just TVreturns to the air on Friday, September 16 at 9 p.m. for a 16^e season.

On the schedule this winter: the return of Small tanners by Pierre Hébert, the series larry by Stéphane Bourguignon, the variety show Zenith by Véronique Cloutier, eye of the storm 2 and Reasonable doubt 2which will take off two months after last winter’s final.

Also this winter, last lap for comedy Guys, which will end after this third and final chapter, a decision taken by the creator of the comedy, Jacques Davidts. And how will our boomer-boys live their farewells? “It’s not going to get better. We embrace the distress of these guys in the face of a world that is changing too quickly for them, ”reveals Christian Bégin, alias university professor Christian Laliberté in Guys.

In January, the second season of Without an appointment will bring back mother Marianne (Diane Lavallée), who will turn the life of her daughter Sarah (Magalie Lépine-Blondeau) upside down. Even if the screenwriter Marie-Andrée Labbé is overwhelmed by the texts of STATRadio-Canada anticipates that it will be able to deliver a third season of Without an appointment.

The show derived from All the life, With beating heart, will also begin in January. Roy Dupuis will resume his role as speaker Christophe L’Allier and Ève Landry will be M^e Gabrielle Laflamme, Crown prosecutor and great ally of Christophe L’Allier (LOL).

Get them out of here!

Big mole job (thanks again!) on the reality TV file Get me out of here! of VAT, which derives from the British concept I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!. I revealed to you on Tuesday that Colette Provencher, Jean-François Mercier, Andréanne A. Malette and Livia Martin had camped in the Costa Rican jungle alongside the D^r François Marquis, Marianne St-Gelais and Nathalie Simard. Here are two other stars who lived hard in the middle of the tropical forest: host and comedian José Gaudet and dancer Rahmane Belkebiche, co-champion of the third season of Revolution. There you go, you know everything.