TV5 | À vous le monde!

TV5... The world from a different angle

An invaluable gateway to French-speaking culture worldwide, TV5 Québec Canada has been laying claim to a unique position among Canadian television broadcasters since 1988. Thanks to its lively and dynamic programming, TV5 has contributed to the promotion and dissemination of the social and linguistic diversity of French-speaking culture from within Canada and abroad. With its fine mix of authentic cultural influences, TV5 bears testimony to the vitality of the French language by proposing a judicious range of the very best programs in French from Europe and Africa, in addition to original Canadian productions.

With its core values of openness and sharing, and its willing affirmation of a spirit and a language, TV5 is a network that both listens to people and designs its programming in consequence. A partner of the second most widely distributed television network in the world, TV5 Québec Canada is very favourably positioned in the heart of the international French-speaking community and is able to offer a vision and points of view that go far beyond mere images on a screen.

Assisted by its strongly built brand image, TV5 reaches a targeted audience of francophones and francophiles that is open to diversity, plurality and dialogue. Thanks to the extraordinary synergy derived from francophone public television networks around the planet, TV5 has developed into a formidable ambassador for coexistence and cultural interchange.

In Canada, TV5 reaches 6.6 million cable and satellite subscribers, including 4.1 million outside Québec, making it one of the most widely available French-language television networks. Around the world, more than 180 million homes in over 200 countries receive TV5 via cable or satellite, 24 hours a day. TV5 has built its success on a network of partners that contribute their diversity and pluralism to the network, as well as having a variety of editorial positions, and is thus able to offer its audience the best of French-speaking television. At the European and international levels, input comes from France 2, France 3, France 5, ARTE France, RTBF (the Belgian Radio Television network for the French community in Belgium), TSR (the Swiss-Romand television network), RFO (the French overseas network) and French-speaking Africa through CIRTEF (the international council of radio-television networks in French).

TV5 holds an operating license giving it status as a Canadian network with its headquarters in Montreal. By virtue of its license, TV5 Québec Canada is committed to devoting 15% of its programming to the distribution of Canadian programs during the day and at prime time. Of this amount, it presents at least 104 hours of original first-run Canadian programming per year, which represents a substantial investment. The best Canadian programs also have a chance to be seen over TV5’s entire international network. This is an excellent means of gaining notoriety in the export market.

Truly a television network with a difference, TV5 constantly reaffirms its unique position by means of select, intelligent programming, which provides a window onto the world. On the program: INFORMATION - DRAMA - TRAVEL - ENTERTAINMENT - DOCUMENTARIES - DEBATES AND INTERVIEWS.

TV5 also produces a number of programs reflecting the reality of French-speaking Canadians and francophiles. Here are some examples.

CLUB SOCIAL

Like to be in the know on emerging trends, people making headlines and the phenomena of the hour? François Parenteau and his fellow members invite you to attend their Club social! For a second season, the values, customs and myths that shape our society are explored through intriguing, appealing reports, delivered with the added value of playful smiles… Join Matthieu Dugal, Julie Laferrière, Dave Ouellet, Lakshmi Nguon, Philippe Desrosiers and some surprise members to enjoy the spirit of the times.

HORS-SÉRIE

How do people on the margins of society live? Why do they act that way? Do all anarchists plant bombs? Could New Christians be punks? Stéphane Crête delves into various micro-societies and gives voice to those who refuse to join mass culture. Their views and stories will definitely open your eyes to some of the most astonishing beliefs, ideals and lifestyles! Enter the unusual world of 13 groups of change indicators.

URBANIA, LE QUÉBEC EN 12 LIEUX

See Québec from a different viewpoint! After brilliantly exploring various corners of Montreal, this time around the delightful series visits 12 locations across the province. Through its intimate and usual perspective, Urbania demystifies the Quebec of folklore. Meet exceptional people and learn the history of:
Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré - Le pèlerinage des Winnebagos / The Winnebago pilgrimage

• Madrid - Un royaume espagnol au coeur de l’autoroute 20 / A Spanish kingdom right on Highway 20
  
• La Citadelle d e Québec - Bouc et bonnets de poil / Goats and goatskin caps
  
• l’Anse-SAIN t-Jean - Mon lama contre tes betteraves / My llama against the beets
  
• Ormstown - Virée à l’expo agricole / A trip to the rural expo
  
• Domaine Rouville - Pétanque, fers et voiturettes / The game of pétanque, irons and golf carts
  
• Rouyn-Noranda - Un creuset de cuivre et de culture / A melting pot of brass and culture
  
• Bicolline - Le Québec des années 1000 / Quebec in the year 1000
  
• Îles de la Madeleine - Une heure plus tard aux Îles / An hour later on the Magdalen Islands
  
• Labrecque - Les cowboys du Nord / The cowboys of the North
  
• Manic 5 - Le Club des 2 592 mégawatts / The 2,592 Megawatt Club
  
• Valcourt - Capitale mondiale de la motoneige / World Snowmobile Capital

MIXEUR

Epicureans and gourmands, contain your delight! Mixeur is back for a second season with its larger than life creators and Anne Dorval as narrator! This unique concept unveils the culinary arts in all its forms and from all around the world! This season, the magazine heads to Paris, Brussels, Tokyo, Copenhagen and Montreal, among other places.

PARTIR AUTREMENT

With Bruno Blanchet, Partir autrement opens up a whole new way to travel. Through sustainable tourism projects, the team travels the world without leaving a footprint or causing any social harm. Each episode presents a different and unexpected destination: a genuine Kamu eco-tent village on the Mekong, the Collines de Niassam Lodge in Senegal, an Arabian Nights bivouac with the Riad, Ma Bonne Etoile in the Moroccan Sahara ... To travel differently, Partir autrement, is to encounter a community and its values; it involves exploring the world in its everyday reality while actively taking part in projects to improve the inhabitants’ living conditions.

First-run and exclusive Canadian shows

Apart from unique documentaries on a wide variety of subjects, TV5 also proposes variety shows filmed during some of Canada’s more important cultural events.