''La Maison-Bleue'' ("The Blue House") is a

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television comedy series, which premiered in 2020 on Ici TOU.TV. Created by Daniel Savoie and

Ricardo Trogi Ricardo Trogi (born March 25, 1970) is a Canadian filmmaker, director and actor. Career Trogi was born in Quebec City, Quebec. His first two films, '' Québec-Montréal'', about seven twenty-something travellers driving between the two cities, and ...

, the series is set in an alternate reality in which the Yes side won the 1995 Quebec referendum, and stars

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as Jacques Hamelin, the fourth president of the independent Republic of Quebec; buffeted by both a struggling economy and the emergence of a popular movement demanding that

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rejoin Canada, he hits on a scheme to revive his popularity by negotiating with the

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to trade

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to American control in exchange for Quebec taking possession of

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. The cast also includes Anne-Marie Cadieux as First Lady Mireille Turcotte, a former Quebec Winter Carnival queen with whom Hamelin has virtually no actual relationship away from the television cameras; Anyjeanne Savaria as Jacques and Mireille's adopted daughter Gabrielle;

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as Blue House communications director Karine Desmarais; Simon Beaulé-Bulman as presidential advisor Antoine Arsenault; Dominic Paquet as presidential bodyguard Stéphane Paquet; and Bruce Dinsmore as U.S. president Lester Richards. The series entered production in 2019 and was filmed in

Quebec City Quebec City ( or ; french: Ville de Québec), officially Québec (), is the capital city of the Canadian province of Quebec. As of July 2021, the city had a population of 549,459, and the metropolitan area had a population of 839,311. It is t ...

and

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. The ten-episode first season premiered February 11, 2020 on TOU.TV, and was broadcast by Ici Radio-Canada Télé in 2021. A second season went into production in fall 2020 for broadcast in 2021. The series has drawn criticism from actual Quebec sovereigntists for purportedly mocking the concept of Quebec independence. Nadon received a

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nomination for Best Actor in a Comedy Series in 2020.Richard Therrien
"Des Gémeaux malgré tout"
''

Le Soleil Le Soleil ("The Sun") is the name of several newspapers: * ''Le Soleil'' (Quebec), a French-language daily newspaper in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, founded in 1896 * ''Le Soleil'' (French newspaper), a defunct daily newspaper based in Paris fro ...

'', September 18, 2020.

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