What talent ! | Quebec will have its incredible talent

Jugglers, ventriloquists, imitators, hypnotists, folk dancers, lounge comedians or singers with velvet voices, prepare yourself to endure the acerbic comments of Serge Denoncourt and those, surely more empathetic, of Anne Dorval, Marie-Mai and Rachid Badouri, who will act as judges of the new TV show What talent ! from Noovo, scheduled in the fall schedule of the channel belonging to Bell Media.

Animation of the popular British television format Got Talentalready adapted in 73 territories, was entrusted to Marie-Josée Gauvin, the morning-woman of the Rouge FM station in Montreal, which we also see at the Dais Managers of Big Brother Celebrities as well as Beautiful and bum at Télé-Québec.

“I will have the privilege of seeing the candidates before they take the stage. I see my role as that of the best friend, the big sister or the mother who encourages her child with pompoms, behind the scenes,” explains the host of What talent !Marie-Josée Gauvin.

There is no age limit or type of artistic gift (acrobatics, sound effects, body painting) to register for the Noovo competition, which has a grant of several tens of thousands of dollars.

The recordings of What talent !a show created by the evil judge Simon Cowell in 2006, will take place during the summer at the Monument-National in Montreal, in front of an audience of 800 people.

The visual signature of What talent !, produced by Sphere Media, will obviously resemble that of the other international versions with its long illuminated desk and the white letters X, which turn red when one of the judges hates a number. The French equivalent of the “golden buzzer”, which allows a competitor to automatically access the next round, has not yet been found.

Noovo does not reveal the time slot in which What talent ! will land and also does not specify the form that the episodes will take. In daily installments? Twice a week ? A Sunday gala afterwards OD ? Mystery.

The choice of judges, however, seems to respect the implicit rule of severe, kind and comic. To Gods of dance at Radio-Canada, Serge Denoncourt was a formidable and merciless observer.

With the intense and ardent Anne Dorval at his side, there can only be flashes, that’s obvious.

Add to the table the repartee of Rachid Badouri and the pop-star experience of Marie-Mai and it gives a panel with flamboyant potential.

Thanks to the extracts from the performances which flood social networks, the brand Got Talent travel all over the planet. With us, the Saguenay singer Jeanick Fournier won the second season of Canada’s Got Talent on Citytv, in spring 2022.

In Europe, Sugar Sammy criticizes the services France has an unbelievable talent of the M6 ​​channel from 13^e edition, launched in 2018. Gilbert Rozon also served as a judge for the first season of France has an unbelievable talent until 11^e.

Among the successes attributable to the franchise Got Talentthere is that, as ephemeral as spectacular, of the Scottish Susan Boyle, who finished second in Britain’s Got Talent in the spring of 2009. Six years later, Calum Scott broke the charts with his rereading of Dancing On My Own by Robyn, on the same set.

A beautiful Beast poignant

Put on your shell and wrap your heart in bubble wrap to watch the beautiful, but very tough, second season of Black beastwhich begins Wednesday at 9 p.m. on the specialized channel Séries Plus.

The theme ? Infanticide. Yes I know. It’s very heavy. But with one episode per week, it’s easier to digest. The story of Black beast, written by Patrick Lowe and Annabelle Poisson, begins with a disturbed mother (Charlotte Aubin), who poisons her two children aged 7 and 4 with benzodiazepine muffins. The 35-year-old mother, a civil servant at the Ministry of Revenue, also tries to kill herself by swallowing cakes poisoned with anxiolytics.

I’m not burning punch by revealing that one of the two intoxicated children dies. The sequence of events will shake up the viewer with the driest heart. The father (Mickaël Gouin), a construction contractor, begins a long nightmare. The grandparents, played by Pascale Montpetit, Stéphane Jacques and Claude Despins, float in total incomprehension.

But for the detective sergeant (Cynthia Wu-Maheux) and the Crown prosecutor (Benoit McInnis), the picture is crystal clear. This is a classic case of a deceived and jealous woman, who does not accept her recent separation and who punishes her ex-partner by attacking what he has most preciously, his two children.

What if by scratching beneath the surface, we discovered the real source of this mother’s discomfort, possibly in psychosis?

No need to have seen the first chapter of Black beast, broadcast in spring 2021, to embark on the second. This six-episode miniseries brings back its two pivotal characters, psychiatrist Éliane Sirois (Sophie Cadieux) and investigator Jasmin Boisvert (Martin Dubreuil), and places them on this new case of the depressed mother.

Psychiatrist Éliane Sirois seems to be the only one who wants to help the infanticidal mother, who committed one of the most horrible crimes in the great book of human misery. Slowly, the tenacious Éliane, her sidekick Boisvert and the defense lawyer (Sharon James) put the pieces of the puzzle together to explain – without necessarily justifying them – the torments of the murderous, hostile and almost mute mother.

At first, we think we know where the plot is heading, which takes a surprising detour in the second episode. It’s like diving into the head of a person who is not doing well at all. A dive that will take your breath away and crush your heart, be warned.