Tou.tv Extra frustration | The Press

Subsidized TV for the rich! It sucks to pay more to watch The little life ! Our taxes already finance the basic platform, that’s enough!

Tou.tv’s Extra, which costs $6.99 a month, needs the services of McKinsey to restore its public image. Reading your angry messages, this paid service – or free for Telus subscribers, just for them – irritates you as much as the unsolicited sexual advances of the suicidal, but not drowned, patient in STAT.

The wave of complaints swelled this week with the release of the fourth season of Plan B on the Extra of Tou.tv, the imminent arrival ofA boy a girl 2.0, as well as the release of six new episodes of The little lifewhich will appear in the fall on this so-called “premium” digital platform.

Here are some of your prancing reactions. Pierre B. asks himself: “Why am I helping to finance the episodes of little life, but that I am not allowed to watch them? » Suzanne Q. notes that « it is aberrant to be deprived of programs which are in reality continuations of what we liked » on ordinary television.

I understand your exasperation. And I don’t say that with the smooth tone of a therapist weirdo who hears your anger and who welcomes it in his bergamot-scented arms as in Guys. It’s sincere, my business.

There is nothing logical in coughing up dollars twice for public television, which is already costing taxpayers $1.5 billion. CBC practices a more reasonable double dip for Gem, the English-language equivalent of Tou.tv.

At $4.99 a month, Gem is removing all ads, but offering no exclusives or scoops on its most anticipated TV series. Our friends in English Canada watch their programs “everyone at the same time” and nobody plays solitaire, thank you, Louis-Jean Cormier, for the inspiration.

But as Jérôme 50 sings: tokébakicitte! We cheerfully pass the tchik-à-tchik, to paraphrase Julie Snyder in a Mastercard ad.

Radio-Canada underestimates the discontent generated by subscribing to its Extra. I discussed it with the bosses of the public broadcaster this week, who insist on this point: the Quebec series offered for the first time on the Extra of Tou.tv will all cross over to the general antenna within a few months.

In exchange for $6.99 per month, the equivalent of a matcha latte prepared by a barista wearing a cap that is too short, the subscription to Extra Tou.tv allows customers to a) skip the ads and b) getting ahead of the general clientele, that’s all.

It’s all very true. But it’s annoying nonetheless.

Voluntarily and consciously, Radio-Canada rarely communicates the broadcast dates of its star Extra products on conventional television. So, when will we see the new adventures of Guy and Sylvie at Radio-Canada? Somewhere in 2023-2024, we are told. Could you be less specific, please?

Same thing for The little life : when will it be on the free small screen? We do not know. We don’t say it.

This maneuver aims to boost subscriptions to Extra, no need to be Nostradumas to guess it. Come on, enter your secret three-digit code to open Sesame’s digital doors!

When the buzz rumbles around a unique production at Tou.tv’s Extra, several customers relive the boring VIP experience of an amusement park.

You know when you held an expensive “fast pass” to skip the long line on the rides and a bunch of cashy kids cut you off with their gold-plated “extra fast pass”? This is how the Tou.tv Extra makes you feel: excluded from the partyin fine gun to go into second.

Maybe it’s the endless winter blues or the buildup of drama in the series, but morale wasn’t great this week. Things are bad everywhere, at all workstations, every hour: The breakaway, With beating heart, Alerts, 5^e Rank, Reasonable doubte, The red wristbands, Plan B, Megantic, Lark. Solution to stop this overwhelming gloom? Reconnect with the comedies of the season.

I am up to date Happiness, Without an appointment And Guys. Happiness (finally) brought back his tasty real estate agent Karoll-Ann Lapoynte-St-Jacques (Monika Pilon), who was trying to sell a house that had been the scene of “a future family drama in the region”. This episode with the $10,000 doll-wife reached an all-time high of cynicism.

In Guys, our four housemates are not heading for a finale in marital bliss. Étienne (Yanic Truesdale) was dumped by his bisexual lover Bruno (Maxime Allard), who fell into the arms of Julie (Judith Baribeau), the flickering flame of Martin (Normand Daneau). Simon (Alexis Martin) slept with the boss (Isabel Richer) of Christian (Christian Bégin) at university.

Christian now has to reconnect with Natalie (Julie Ménard). Something, somewhere on TV, has to be right. Otherwise, as Christian said Wednesday, it’s 30 milligrams of antidepressant a day. Or a session with an olfactotherapist (Émilie Bibeau) who loves peppermint pschitt, choose.