The History of Canadian BroadcastingNetwork: TVA Television Network Broadcast Run: 2003 to 2010 Broadcast Medium: Television Occupation Double was a reality TV series that was first broadcast in 2003. The first two seasons were hosted by Éric Salvail. Joël Legendre took over from 2006 to 2009. He was then replaced by Pierre-Yves Lord. The program concept featured young single men and women who […]
Network: TVA Television Network Broadcast Run: 2005 Broadcast Medium: Television A police action series, written by Fabienne Larouche, Un homme mort recounted the adventures of Kim Blanchard and Paul Devault. Kim was beginning his career in the banking sector, while police officer Devault was bringing his career to a close with an investigation that was as unfathomable as […]
Network: TVA Television Network Broadcast Run: 2004 to 2006 Broadcast Medium: Television The Sketch Show was an adaptation of a similarly named British series, by Benoît Chartier, Simon Leblond, Jacques Grisé, Gilbert Dumas and Pierre Légaré that was broadcast between 2004 and 2006. The actors would play different characters in various brief situations, without however changing their first name. […]
Network: TVA Television Network Broadcast Run: 1993 Broadcast Medium: Television JE (for “investigative journalism”) was an investigative journalism program that began broadcast over the TVA network in 1993. With a team of two co-hosts and seven journalist-researchers, JE investigated cases that were submitted to them by the general public: frauds, abusive or stagnant legal procedures and dishonest companies or […]
Network: TVA Television Network Broadcast Run: 2001 Broadcast Medium: Television A daily program, Deux filles le matin was broadcast in the morning and had its start in 2001. Its mission was to please the modern female, by dissecting their moods with regard to a host of subjects including society, shopping, fashion and health. Over the years, several co-hosts […]
Network: TVA Television Network Broadcast Run: 2002 Broadcast Medium: Television Caméra Café was a comedy series written by François Avard, whose initial broadcast date was September 16, 2002. Caméra Café told the story of the daily lives of the employees of a Montreal branch of a big Toronto company, by way of a camera hidden in a coffee […]
Network: TVA Television Network Broadcast Run: 2005 to 2006 Broadcast Medium: Television With a simultaneously dramatic and humourous style, Vice caché, a dramatic series that totalled eighteen 60-minute episodes, written by François Camirand and Louis Saia, invited the TV audience into the fascinating universe of five couples who lived in the Croissant des Gémeaux, a magnificent “dead end” […]
Network: TVA Television Network Broadcast Run: 2002 to 2007 Broadcast Medium: Television Broadcast initially in January 2002, the TV soap opera Les poupées russes, a work by Anne Boyer and Michel d’Astous, will air for five consecutive seasons until 2007. Les poupées Russes focused primarily on the paths of two very different families, but whose lot would be […]
Network: TVA Television Network Broadcast Run: 2001 to 2003 Broadcast Medium: Television Tabou, a dramatic series consisting of twenty-four 60-minute episodes, was broadcast from 2001 to 2003. It traced the unrelenting search of a couple, Manon and Bertrand Vandelac, for their daughter Sarah, who had disappeared seven years earlier without leaving a trace. Directed by Louis Choquette, Claude […]
Network: TVA Television Network Broadcast Run: 2000 to 2004 Broadcast Medium: Television Fortier was a TV police drama that was aired over forty-two 45-minute episodes. It was written by Fabienne Larouche, directed by Érik Canuel and François Gingras, and was broadcast from 2000 to 2004 on the TVA network. Anne Fortier was a ham-fisted psychologist, with a dark […]