Viewing Platforms | 10 series to get through the cold season

We expect a big slew of playoffs over the next few months. Here are 10 expected titles, from here and elsewhere, that could convince us to abandon winter sports to stay in it.

About Anthony

The program supposed to mark the great return to the small screen of Claude Legault, on sick leave since 2021 for burnout. (We will act as if he had not camped François Legault in front of 4 million viewers at the last Bye.) Made by Podz (19-2, midnight at night) and written by comedian Cathleen Rouleau, who also plays the lead role, this 10-episode semi-autobiographical comedy-drama tells the story of a woman who falls in love with the father of a child with multiple disabilities, autism, intellectual disability, high-level non-verbal and epileptic. Fanny Malette, Sylvain Marcel, Micheline Bernard and Hughes Frenette complete the cast.

January 19 | Club illico

That ’90s Show

After Beverly Hills 90 210, gossip girl and company, another old teen series resurfaces. That ’70s Show bECOMES That ’90s Show and revolves around the character of Leia Forman, the daughter of Eric and Donna, who comes to spend the summer with her grandparents, Red and Kitty. Same state (Wisconsin), same small town (Point Place) and same dilapidated basement, but different era and distribution. Those nostalgic for sitcom original will be happy to hear, however, that many comedians from the first eight seasons will make special appearances, including Topher Grace, Laura Prepon, Mila Kunis, Ashton Kutcher and Wilmer Valderrama. Accused of rape, Danny Masterson (Hyde) will obviously not return.

January 19 | netflix

Eyes closed

Magalie Lépine-Blondeau abandons her lustful patients to Without an appointment to star in this series by Anita Rowan (Chaos, The side effect) which paints the portrait of Élise, a woman who seeks to elucidate the death of Simon, her older brother, which occurred 27 years earlier. Produced by Fabienne Larouche and Michel Trudeau (STAT, District 31) and directed by Jeanne Leblanc (5^e rank), this six-episode drama, which promises a lot of back and forth between present and past, also stars Benoît McGinnis as a former pastoral animator, Charlotte Aubin, Louis-Philippe Dandenault, Isabelle Guérard and Thomas Beaudouin.

January 26 | HERE Tou.tv Extra

Shrinking

Harrison Ford hasn’t starred in tons of TV shows over the course of his career. That’s why this series intrigues us so much. Created, written and produced by Jason Segel (How I Met Your Mother), Bill Lawrence (Ted Lasso) and Brett Goldstein (Ted Lasso), this 10-episode comedy portrays a bereaved therapist (Segel), who decides to break the rules by telling his clients exactly what he’s thinking. Forgetting his training and, above all, his code of ethics, he generates great changes in their lives… and in his own. Christa Miller, Jessica Williams, Michael Urie, Luke Tennie and Lukita Maxwell also appear in the credits.

January 27 | AppleTV+

Megantic

It’s not just the 1998 ice storm that “celebrates” an important anniversary in 2023. Next summer will mark 10 years since another disaster: that of Lac-Mégantic. To highlight the event, producers Sophie Lorain and Alexis Durand-Brault are offering this choral series written by Sylvain Guy (Louis Cyr: World’s Strongest Man, Mafia Inc.) which will tell how, on July 6, 2013, a train of 72 wagons containing 100,000 liters of crude oil each crashed into downtown Lac-Mégantic, killing many innocent people. With among others Jean-Philippe Perras, Julie Ringuette and Lauren Harvey.

February 9 | Club illico

Plan B

We’ve been waiting for a long time, this sequel to Plan B, postponed many times due to a certain pandemic. After Louis Morissette, Sophie Lorain and Anne-Élisabeth Bossé, Pier-Luc Funk’s turn to use the services of the agency specializing in time travel. The actor will camp there Jessy, a young thug who, after spending three months in prison, is looking to make his biggest money grab to solve all his problems and reunite his parents. If only Jessy had watched the previous three seasons of the sci-fi drama from Jacques Drolet and Jean-François Asselin, he would know that nothing is simple when you start playing with space-time.

February 23 | HERE Tou.tv Extra

Daisy Jones & The Six

On paper, the winning conditions are met for a successful series. Reese Witherspoon (Big Little Lies, The Morning Show) produces this musical series inspired by Taylor Jenkins Reid’s bestseller, which chronicles the roller coaster journey of a rock band. In 1977, Daisy Jones & The Six sat at the top of the charts. Everything is working. But after a sold-out concert at Soldier Field in Chicago, the band disbanded. Overnight, it’s all over. Decades later, its members agree to tell what really happened.

March 3 | Prime Video

A boy a girl

You re-re-re-listened to old episodes ofA boy a girl on ICI Télé during the holiday break? Know that a new batch is about to land on ICI Tou.tv’s Extra. Twenty years after leaving the air, the popular situation comedy is reborn to show how Guy (Guy A. Lepage, who writes and co-directs) and Sylvie (Sylvie Léonard) manage in their suburban house too big for two… that they decide to sell in order to move back to town. For the moment, only four half-hours are planned, but good news, actors will resume their roles, including Martin Petit, Élise Guilbault, Pierre Lebeau, Mahée Paiement, Daniel Brière, Louise Richer and Geneviève Brouillette.

March | HERE Tou.tv Extra

Disobey – Chantal Daigle’s choice

Signed by Daniel Thibault and Isabelle Pelletier (Breakups, watchtower), this miniseries revisits an important chapter in the history of Quebec by retracing the winding journey of Chantal Daigle in 1989. It will show how this young woman, then aged 21, stood up to everyone (pressure groups, courts, manipulative and aggressive ex-spouse) to assert her right to an abortion all the way to the Supreme Court. Directed by Alexis Durand-Brault, this drama starring Éléonore Loiselle and Antoine Pilon will land online less than a year after the shutdown was reversed Roe v. wade in the USA.

March | crave

Succession

The Roy family not only likes to stab each other in the back; she also likes to be waited on. The last time Logan (Brian Cox) and company occupied our screens was in the fall of 2021. A year and a half to wait to savor the sequel is too much. But that might be the time we needed to digest the ultimate betrayal the heady HBO series left us with, when Tom (Matthew Macfadyen) torpedoed Shiv’s (Sarah Snook) and his brothers, who wanted to take over the Waystar media empire. For the moment, no details surrounding the fourth season of the Shakespearean psychodrama have leaked, but we are hopeful to get our money’s worth.

March | crave