We will pick up tomorrow is in the image of its host and co-designer Pier-Luc Funk: funny, authentic and original. For this new Télé-Québec variety show, produced in particular by France Beaudoin and Pamplemousse Média, the host invites, each episode, his friends to party with him in a house and to indulge in confidences. “When you want to create a show complicity, it helps a lot to be surrounded by people you know and with whom you trust,” he observes. And like in a real party, there are also other guests, Quebec public figures with whom the artist is less familiar. “It’s great to make great human discoveries, just like I love meeting up with my good old friends and chatting with them! »
According to Pier-Luc Funk, the party ideal thus brings together games — “Nathalie Simard who plays beer pongquestions, it’s funny! » — deep conversations, musical performances and fun, found in We will pick up tomorrow in the form of sketches. “These are the elements that we took for the show and, above all, we don’t talk about our current projects,” he explains, while admitting that the moments when he feels the best at parties are either being silly or talking about “real things.” “. “Anything in between, I have a hard time. I’m not good at small talk », says the host.
To do this, what better place than a spacious and warm house? “When you see people chatting in a living room or in a basement, obviously, you are less stressed than when there is an audience watching you on a chair with lighting, a microphone and questions,” emphasizes he said in reference to the endless variety shows on Quebec television. Pier-Luc Funk, on the contrary very uninhibited, likes to place himself on the same level as his guests. “Intimate discussions happen between me and the other person. We are not in the classic question-and-answer formula,” he says. If he wants to give his point of view on something, the host goes there frankly.
For his part, Patrice Ouimet, who co-designed and producedWe will pick up tomorrow and who has been collaborating with Pier-Luc Funk for several years, did not hesitate before joining this curious adventure. “We had to have faith in taking risks, because new things come with lots of unknowns,” he reports. One of the challenges was actually filming in a town house, or rather a suburban one. “Like in a real party, we go from one room to another. This is what drive the design of show, In fact. » On the screen, we actually see so many people dancing in the living room to Feel Happy, by Véronic DiCaire, as Pier-Luc Funk and Pascale Bussières moving around in the bathroom. “So many things happen in parallel at a party…” notes the director.
For him, the initial idea ofWe will pick up tomorrow was to create atmospheres like those we see in fiction series. “Thanks to the way we shoot, we feel that we are in a very real context,” he points out. The show is in some ways a meeting between variety and fiction. “I found that the atmospheres of the shows “traditional variety shows were very similar to television, so I wanted to build something for the viewer, a bit like fiction, which could entertain all adult audiences”, recalls its director.
“It’s not a rescue show, but a creation show,” adds Pier-Luc Funk. And to continue: “When you are offered shows, the reflex is to propose something that already exists and become the talking head to save the formula. » Him and the O teamn will pick up tomorrow have, in fact, given their body and soul to produce content that is unlike any other currently. “You don’t feel like aiming big and not achieving it, but still take risks while being realistic. It still provides conditions for creation tough », Relates the host. By braving the unknown, they were able to find a strong common thread, capable of making an impression.
“We didn’t do We will pick up tomorrow lightly, Pier-Luc Funk finally recalls. Everything is precise, thought out, thought out. » The only downside, perhaps? “In a real party, the ideal is for it not to be filmed and for everyone to really let loose, but here…”