In the magazine’s latest list of the 100 most influential personalities in Quebec NewsFrance Beaudoin was at 22e row, behind Louis Morissette (17e), but ahead of Charles Lafortune (24e), Guy A. Lepage (30e), Alexis Durand-Brault and Sophie Lorain (37are), Véronique Cloutier (41e), Fabienne Larouche (78e) and Julie Snyder (100e).
The power of the facilitatorLive from the universe will expand further next season. She will then produce her first fiction series, Watch out for mewhere a Quebec showbiz star (Guylaine Tremblay) as well as a rising star (Pascale Renaud-Hébert) will play.
Other info that cements France Beaudoin’s status as a top-line player in the television industry here: her 15e season at the helmLive from the universe on Radio-Canada, the one which ended on April 6, was the most watched in its history with an average of 1,261,000 people glued to their screen.
The previous record ofLive from the universe dated from the pandemic, i.e. in 2020-2021, when 1,251,000 television fans drew their weekly dose of comfort there.
In television, lasting over time is an achievement in itself. To last and progress is even rarer. This is what France Beaudoin accomplished.
To return to the miniseries Watch out for me, it comes from a worried text that the actress Guylaine Tremblay, grandmother since December, sent (very late) to her friend France Beaudoin. How would she react if she was prevented from seeing her granddaughter Amélia?
“I already know that I will be ready to do anything to ensure that she is protected and happy,” confides Guylaine Tremblay.
This is how the miniseries came about Watch out for mea social and legal drama whose writing was entrusted to Pascale Renaud-Hébert, the co-writer behind Can you hear me ? at Télé-Québec and In Memoriam on Crave. The six one-hour episodes of Watch out for me will be released in the fall on the Tou.TV Extra platform.
In Watch out for mea story set in a very modest suburb, Guylaine Tremblay will play Maggie, a restaurant waitress who is pulling the devil by the tail and who was not the mother of the year for her daughter Corinne (Pascale Renaud-Hébert), she too is entangled in stories of drug addiction and domestic violence.
In a moment of slippage, Corinne will entrust her baby Zack to her mother and disappear into the mist with her toxic partner Joey (Guillaume Laurin). For three years, grandmother Maggie, who also does nails to make ends meet, will raise little Zack alone.
The tensions between these two “deficient women who love each other very badly,” says Guylaine Tremblay, will escalate when Corinne returns home, sober, and demands custody of her Zack.
There is no question, however, of sinking into miserabilism, melodramatics and the exploitation of the poverty of the characters in Watch out for mewhich Rafaël Ouellet (One way ticket, Turn: Double fault).
The author Pascale Renaud-Hébert has proven the sensitivity of her pen in Can you hear me ?where she addressed socio-economic issues with sensitivity, honesty and a touch of humor.
The environment in which Maggie and Corinne, who have not attended school for long, evolve is “an environment where people lack tools and are often swallowed up by the system,” indicates Pascale Renaud-Hébert, whose character by Valérie the physiotherapist in STAT, the one who was a juror in a murder trial, obtained her own premises in the Saint-Vincent hospital. Understand: we will see her again more regularly in September.
Around the two protagonists of Watch out for methere will be a bar waitress with a strong tongue (Karine Gonthier-Hyndman), a colorful lawyer (Kathleen Fortin), a prosecutor from the DPJ (Reda Guérinik), a worker from the DPJ (Rose-Marie Perreault) and an employee of a women’s help center (Fabiola Nyrva Aladin).
Pascale Renaud-Hébert and Fabiola Nyrva Aladin were two of my favorite chakras on the show I am coming to you on Noovo. And who produces Marc Labrèche’s show? France Beaudoin. The circle is complete.
Hot Monday in the kitchen
The battle of reality shows on Monday at 8 p.m., which involves the three major networks, is taking shape, even if no one can yet lift the champion’s belt.
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The Chiefs ! : the confrontationinterested 539,000 viewers last Monday evening.
At Noovo, the game Traitors by Karine Vanasse loses its feathers and drops to 344,000 faithful, a drop of around 100,000 viewers in comparison with last week’s premiere.
At TVA, the cleanliness competition Wash to win by Stéphane Bellavance remains stable with its 446,000 household addicts. The last episode, better than the first, gave more convincing results. The 15 competitors had enough time to clean their microwaves and bathe adorable muddy dogs. However, it lacks rhythm and the challenges drag on too long.
For the moment, Radio-Canada remains in first place with The Chiefs ! : the confrontationwhich interested 539,000 cooks between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m.
As usual, the daily STAT (1,237,000) and Indefensible (1,098,000) retain their enormous power of attraction. There are only six episodes left in each of the two series before their spring finale. Make your predictions. Will Marie-Anne Desjardins (Anne-Élisabeth Bossé) resign from the cabinet? Will Jacob (Lou-Pascal Tremblay) reconnect with his spy father (Patrick Goyette)? Will Emmanuelle (Suzanne Clément) sleep with handsome Dr Davis (Thomas Beaudoin)?