On your screens: nostalgia for X and Y, and humor for all

“Youth” birthdays

The members of generations X and Y (and those in between, sometimes described as “xenial”) have something to feel old this week in front of their small screen.

American cable music channel MTV celebrated its 40th anniversary on 1is last August, with great nostalgia for what it once was: an excellent source of musical discoveries for young music lovers and a fertile ground for video creation, which completely changed the way we “consumed” music, until ” that YouTube and streaming listening platforms come to change the situation. The documentary MTV, the television of a generation, French version of an episode of the series Biography, Entitled ” I Want my MTV », broadcast on A&E last September, tells the story of this musical TV, which few bonzes in the television industry initially believed, through the testimonies of its creators, some of its early hosts, and stars who became better known to the general public. The nostalgic exercise full of more or less light anecdotes does not, however, avoid constructive criticism on the less shining sides of the chain, such as the too little space given to black artists and hip-hop (moreover denounced once on the air by a certain David Bowie…) and the objectification of women (most often scantily clad) in too many music videos.

On September 17, 1991, Radio-Canada broadcast the very first episode of a daily soap opera aimed at teenagers, just before supper time. Watatatow, which recounted the ups and downs of young and old alike, skilfully navigating between light comedy and very dramatic drama, stayed on the air for 14 years. To mark the 30e anniversary of this “completely buzzing” program, the Franco-Canadian magazine General tour, who is starting his 4e season, offers a special edition where we can hear the memories, anecdotes and thoughts of several actors who have played some of the most significant (and most “enduring”) characters in the series. True connoisseurs of Watatatow will not learn much about the underside of the 30-year-old production, but they will undoubtedly experience a lot of pleasure in finding the performers of the “toxic” couple of Émilie and Chicoine (Élyse Aussant and Fabien Dupuis) ​​and the mother and daughter Couillard (Carole Chatel and Karine Pelletier) tell anecdotes on the set (and sometimes off set …) and to hear the singer Sara Dufour, who has also been in the cast of the show for three years, offer a particularly lively version of the iconic song in the credits. Something to want to dive back into the series, including a few episodes of the 7e season are broadcast immediately after …

MTV, the television of a generation
Crave, from September 13

Watatatow General Tour: 30 years later
United, Friday, 8 p.m.


Soly and company

Comedian Arnaud Soly broadened his audience during the pandemic thanks to his short “character” or parody sketches posted on his YouTube channel. Its subscribers will not be disoriented by this passage to the small “conventional” screen since Club Soly promises to be the same, with the difference that it will be a little more surrounded … Comic colleagues Katherine Levac, Virginie Fortin, Pierre- Yves Roy-Desmarais, Richardson Zéphir, Anas Hassouna and Julien Corriveau (also co-writer) join him in this game of fun where he will revive some of his key characters (including the gossip journalist named Jean-Guy), while tempting to stick to current events. It shouldn’t be boring.

Club Soly
New, Monday, 7:30 p.m.

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