Those ofAntigangthe new daily newspaper by TV that takes over from STATimpress by their realism, but also by their immense area, of around 18,000 square feet.
26 days before the departure ofAntigangon Monday September 8 at 7 p.m., producer Fabienne Larouche talks about an “exhilarating” company.
To follow her in the brand new sets, already inhabited by a gallery of characters to discover, we always feel the same energy, the same passion.
It is also proud to have found an author, Nadine Bismuth, capable of supporting the rhythm of a daily life.
“It’s exciting when you meet talent, envy, perseverance, tenacity. Me, at that time, I have great pleasure. A great pleasure, ”says the one who saw others with Virginia, 30 vies, District 31 et STAT.
The marathon has been launched for a few weeks already: the ætios team has completed the shooting of around twenty episodes.
Here Télé also announces to us that we will be entitled to four an hour episodes for the first week, as we had done for Stat at the start.
“We wanted people to get attached to the characters,” explains the Director General of Radio-Canada television, Sophie Morass.
Remember that the squad ofAntigang Gather agents of the Royal Gendarmerie, the Sûreté du Québec and the Montreal police, gathered to tackle organized crime. Not the small dealers or alleys, we attack the root.
The colleagues of the squad are all at the same level, even if Jean-François Bégin (Patrice Robitaille) acts as the natural leader of the team.
“I love the dynamics of our squad so much. They stand, are united, they protect themselves but can also criticize each other. There can be a few bitcharies but it is not mean and we remain in black humor, “explains the author Nadine Bismuth.
Fabienne Larouche also promises a lot of humor in the series and strong female characters. “The wives of bikers are not nanny,” she warns.
The false agency of the squad-it is not a police station, we have often been repeated-was mounted in a former video call center in Saint-Hubert on the southern shore of Montreal. Its creator, Alexandre Carrier, is a pride, he who is also behind the sets of the series Dumas, Reasonable doubt et The call.
Nadine Bismuth, who had been part of the first team of authorsIndefensiblethis time only finds itself in the texts, with the precious support of Luc Dionne, which gives him good veins.
“When you write a daily life, you only think that.” It becomes like a centrifugal force of your life, ”admits the author, who also calls on Guy Ouellette, formerly of the Carcajou squad, and Annie Trudel, specializing in the detection of collusion and corruption stratagems.
Two essential allies for the subject to be true on the screen.
With her husband Michel Trudeau, Fabienne Larouche always has an eye on production to give the best possible series to the public.
“When she looks at a text, she has X -rays in the eyes. She wrestle as the first time. Then she has great respect for the work of the authors, ”underlines Nadine Bismuth.
In addition to the stars that had already been announced, such as Karine Gonthier-Hydman, Catherine Trudeau and Vincent Graton, we were revealed the identity of new characters, starting with Sébastien Ricard who will play Denis Marchand, chief of the Quebec chapter of Death Shadow, an important group of bikers.
He therefore plays the husband of Fanny Boutin, played by Léane Labrèche-Dor. The “Power Couple” of the fall, is risking to predict.
Frank Schorpion plays Dan Murphy, head of the Irish mafia, while David Giguère plays Gabriel Goulet, a large importer of cocaine.
On the police side, return to fiction for Patrice Bélanger, who inherits the role of Bruno Monette, sergeant in the gendarmerie. Fabiola Nyrva Aladin will be Sandrine Pleau, specialist in ballistics, while Luis Oliva plays Arnaud Boyer, specialist in spinning.
This completes the casting Regular from the series, to which will of course be added invited actors.
But what about STAT? The daily newspaper which will become weekly has retained its own studios but will come out much more outside in its new format.
Who is dead? Who is alive? That, we will have to wait to find out. We will have all the time to come back to it.
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