2023-11-16 23:37:39
MONTRÉAL — Here is the television column from The Canadian Press for the week of November 18 to 24, 2023:
Father of a young man with Down syndrome, documentary filmmaker Éli Laliberté questions the prenatal screening tests that make it possible to detect this condition in children and whether we can “imagine a world without them.”
This will be the starting point of his quest for the documentary “Lucas, an endangered human species”.
Declaring himself absolutely not a specialist in Down syndrome, he calls himself a “Lucas specialist”, his 22-year-old son, without whom he could not imagine the world.
Through his work as a documentary filmmaker, Éli Laliberté wants to show as many people as possible how we can live with Down syndrome.
Anik Larose, who worked at the Quebec Intellectual Disability Society, and is herself the mother of a daughter with Down syndrome, raises social questions regarding prenatal screening tests.
“I am not against abortion. I am not pro-life. I am not pro-choice. (…) I just always said: “Are we giving the right information to couples, to women, to make the decision? Is this really free and informed consent? “And I have always questioned that, and still question it,” says Ms. Larose in the documentary.
ICI Télé – Saturday November 18 at 10:30 p.m.
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The “Children’s Collectors” series
In 2022, star host Paul Arcand signed a documentary series on the issues of cyberpedophilia.
The series “Children’s Collectors” goes to the heart of police operations and investigations by the Department of Youth Protection (DPJ) and presents testimonies from victims and criminals.
The series also raises the issue of these photos which continue to circulate on the web and the threat of seeing them reappear.
The three episodes, which were posted last fall on the Vrai platform and which are directed by André St-Pierre, co-writer of the series with Paul Arcand, are now broadcast on TVA.
TVA – Wednesdays at 9:00 p.m. – From November 22
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François Bellefeuille’s series “Dog Time”
François Bellefeuille plays a veterinarian businessman and star host of successful small screen shows in the series “Temps de chien”, of which he is also the co-author.
Plunged into a scandal despite himself, Antoine Meilleur will go into temporary exile in his house in the Magdalen Islands, and will notably meet an intrusive man, with a vague past who says he no longer lives in the “system” .
He’ll also find himself helping out at the Islands Veterinary Clinic, with a look in the rearview mirror at his fame and thriving business left behind.
The new comedy, co-written with Olivier Thivierge, and directed by François St-Amant, includes 12 30-minute episodes.
The cast includes Nathalie Breuer, Robin-Joël Cool, Éric Bernier, Émilie Bibeau, Ariel Ifergan, Gaston Lepage and Ariane Castellanos.
ICI tou.tv Extra – Available now (and coming in January on ICI Télé)
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